Gays and the Uned Church | Calgary Gay History

Contents:

• GAY CHRISTIANS AREN’T ALLOWED SEXUAL PRACTIC
• GAYS AND THE UNED CHURCH
• GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE REQUT WOULD BE ALLOWED, CALGARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL PRCIPAL SAYS
• CHRISTIAN ALN FED $5,000 FOR ANTI-GAY LETTER
• LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CALGARY, AB
• MEET GAY CHRISTIANS TONIGHT
• CHRISTIAN MONSTRATORS ATTACKED, JURED BY LIBERALS WAVG GAY PRI FLAG
• OPN: GAY TEACHER THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT MAK HEART-FELT PLEA FOR CLN

GAY CHRISTIANS AREN’T ALLOWED SEXUAL PRACTIC

We observe many 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two Spir, lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, queer, tersex, asexual and more) related days such as Calgary Pri, Transgenr Day of Remembrance, and our yearly Affirmg Anniversary. The Catholic Church giv approval for homosexual dividuals as long as they rema abstent.

GAYS AND THE UNED CHURCH

Photo urty of Jonathan BrowerThe Roman Catholic Dce of Calgary’s program Courage & Enurage Apostolate offers to help men and women “live acrdance” wh the church’s “teachg on homosexualy.

However, a lol soclogist and former program lear says that approach is problematic and very different om how the Calgary Wildrose Uned Church supports members of the gay muny. The program — which is also offered other ci — emphasiz that some people might perceive their orientatn to be same-sex attracted, even though “they are by flt heterosexual” and due to some circumstanc life they might have “homosexualized” themselv, even temporarily. The soclogist explas that their techniqu are reparative therapy, or nversn therapy (treatment that attempts to nvert a gay person to a heterosexual).

Kim Holm-Younger and Ryan Cardwell claim for an utter acceptance towards the gay by Ingrid MirSoentgerath rerc his argument by cg a passage om the techism —prcipl of the Christian relign— of the Catholic Church:.

GAY-STRAIGHT ALLIANCE REQUT WOULD BE ALLOWED, CALGARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL PRCIPAL SAYS

“Homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, tradn has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred. Soentgerath also says Courage do not force gay people to jo the program. Unlike Courage, this mistry do not support a life of abstence for gays and wel everyone regardls of their sexual orientatn.

Another Christian group that has attracted ntroversy for s relatnship wh the gay muny is Journey Canada, which, acrdg to s webse, is a “Christ-centred disciplhip mistry that exists to help people fd hope and live life through experiencg J their relatnships and sexualy. Growg up gay an Evangelil church Calgary, Brower was volved overseas humanarian aid and missns work lled Youth Wh A Missn, a worldwi ter-nomatnal, non-prof Christian missnary anizatn. “They told me they wanted only God’s bt for me and that their strict stance agast me embracg my homosexualy was bee they ‘loved me’ and didn’t want me to live an unrighteo life, ” Brower explas.

CHRISTIAN ALN FED $5,000 FOR ANTI-GAY LETTER

In preparatn for a prentatn at Knox Uned Church May, the Calgary Gay History Project dove to learng about the stggl the Uned Church of Canada had g to terms wh sexual orientatn. Grapplg wh homosexualy proved a difficult and divisive challenge for the Uned Church, and there were several twists and turns their journey.

He brought up the issue of homosexualy and the church, notg the omissn of homosexualy om clergy nversatn and sermons. He scribed the homosexual then, as the morn equivalent of the leper. In Calgary, this ia ma news when an Anglin Mister, spired by the book, lled for an embrace of homosexuals his ngregatn.

LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG THERAPISTS CALGARY, AB

It also generated an article that year the Uned Church Observer, the Church’s monthly magaze, which stated that homosexuals should be warmly weled by ngregatns and that some same-sex relatnships be given a church blsg. Decrimalizatn of homosexualy passed Parliament 1969.

The gay-centred Metropolan Communy Church movement had begun and by 1977 there were ngregatns six Canadian ci, cludg Calgary.

Their fdg was that “sexual exprsn is appropriate when occurs the ntext of a lovg and mted relatnship – for both heterosexuals and homosexuals.

MEET GAY CHRISTIANS TONIGHT

The 103-page document remend nsirg the ordatn of homosexuals.

Two ternal lobbyg groups anized: AFFIRM, a newly formed 200-member anizatn of homosexual ngregants and clergy; and the Renewal Fellowship, a 3, 000 member groupg of the Church’s nservative wg, found 1965, who vociferoly argued agast the ordatn of homosexuals.

An rmal survey nducted by the Renewal Fellowship Brish Columbia showed that 45% of church admistrators would leave their church if a homosexual mister was assigned there.

CHRISTIAN MONSTRATORS ATTACKED, JURED BY LIBERALS WAVG GAY PRI FLAG

There, the remendatn to allow the ordatn of “self-clared” homosexuals was overwhelmgly rejected.

Ironilly, the Church spected that 10% of s clergy were already homosexual whether or not they were out about . Intertgly, the homosexual ordatn vote failed to satisfy eher lobby group.

Reverend Morley Clarke, of the Renewal Fellowship, argued that the Council failed to ban homosexual ordatn outright, allowg for non-clared homosexuals to serve. On day two of the liberatns, the mtee members arrived at the classroom they were meetg  and found homophobic slurs wrten all over the blackboard. The 388 legat voted 2:1 favour of any worshippers – cludg self-clared homosexuals – to bee full members of the church, which also meant that gays would be eligible for the mistry.

OPN: GAY TEACHER THE CATHOLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT MAK HEART-FELT PLEA FOR CLN

In Blackfalds, near Red Deer, Uned Church members erected a large sign on the church grounds readg: “THIS CHURCH IS OPPOSED TO ORDAINING HOMOSEXUALS. Calgary started s own chapter of the anti-gay lobby group October. Later that month, three other church: Fort Lawn, Southmster, and Southwood Uned had filed their opposn to the natnal executive regardg homosexual ordatn.