First Openly Gay Epispal Bishop Gene Robson on the Divisns Wh the Anglin Church, Comg Out and Leadg the Invotn at Obama’s Ingural Celebratn | Democracy Now!

Contents:

• GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH
• EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE
• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• CONNECTICUT EPISPALIANS DEFY BISHOP OVER GAY ISSU
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP, WHOSE ELECTN CSED A STIR, TO DIVORCE
• EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP GENE ROBSON ON THE DIVISNS WH THE ANGLIN CHURCH, COMG OUT AND LEADG THE INVOTN AT OBAMA’S INGURAL CELEBRATN
• MISSOURI EPISPALIANS ELECT PARTNERED GAY BISHOP

GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH

| Getty ImagThe four ndidat for bishop of an Epispal Church dce that recently garnered headl for refg to bls same-sex marriag have dited that they will allow the Epispal Dce of Albany has been whout a bishop sce the rignatn 2021 of William Love, who had issued an open letter 2020 refg to enforce a nomatnal le requirg all dc to allow for the blsg of gay marriag. ”Ward wrote that he believ the issue of gay marriage is “tly plited” and that he rpects all sis on the issue, addg that if elected bishop, “honorg theologil diversy would be a prry. ”“Seekg rolutn and a mutual path forward would volve a basic mment to rpectg the digny of every person, affordg genero pastoral attentn to every voice, and seekg Holy mon ground on nonilly sound footg, ” Ward July 2018, the Epispal Church General Conventn passed Rolutn B012, which required all dc to bls same-sex unns, removg earlier provisns that allowed several dc to prohib such measur, due to them beg nflict wh the biblil standard of B012 allowed clergy to refe to perform gay weddgs, required bishops who oppose them to let another bishop provi pastoral support for the same-sex uple and to provi a prit to perform the November 2018, Albany Bishop Love released an open letter statg that he refed to enforce the rolutn his dce.

Epispal Bishop Gene Robson stood before dozens of ptivated listeners Saturday a Falls Church worship space to share his personal history as the Epispal Church’s first openly gay bishop. Robson’s ordatn to bishop New Hampshire 2003 spurred more nservative members to spl om the Epispal Church, wh a large swath of worshipers who didn’t approve of havg an openly gay man the role startg their own church, The Falls Church Anglin, leavg behd a small, liberal splter ed a lengthy legal bate over church property that end 2014 when the Supreme Court cled to take up a lower urt’s lg that the centuri-old property belonged to the Epispal each si has charted s own path sce Robson was named bishop adjutor 2003, Robson himself has had time to reflect on how he beme wily known as the “gay bishop” who brought “Satan the church, ” as a Kenyan lear said many years ago of his Gene Robson gave an emotnal speech durg the terment service for Matthew Shepard at Washgton Natnal Cathedral on Oct.

Church Milant has learned that a clanste pipele for homosexual semarians was tablished the 1990s and to the early 2000s where active gay men om Colombia, South Ameri were beg secretly funneled to U. Multiple semarians have been ntact wh and want the entire story of the massive, massive crisis of homosexual predatn by the clergy — pecially the semari — pletely exposed. John Lavers: "The vtigatn, when we began April/May of 2012, revealed that there was a wi work of semarians which were volved abnormal behavr and homosexual activy spreadg across a number of dc the eastern part of the Uned Stat.

EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE

This also volved a number of dc and a number of clergy wh those dc actively supportg and participatg the homosexual activi that the semarians were also volved . Semarians who had actually been expelled om var Colombian semari for homosexual activy were quietly told that they should fd their way to the Amerin "discernment" hoe if they wanted a ticket to gay-iendly semari the Uned State.

Approximately three or four years later, the archdce of Newark shut down the Columbian hoe when the homosexual activy volvg Amerin prits and the young Columbians was disvered, as this would e great embarrassment to the archdce if ever beme public. They accepted some of the semarians who had traveled to the Uned Stat through the gay pipele — protected and vered up for by multiple clergy along the way. The archbishop of Hartford at the time was Henry Mansell, who figur promently the Pennsylvania grand jury report for his time as bishop of Buffalo, when he shipped at least one known homosexual predator prit to Pennsylvania.

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

What Church Milant has learned is that, prr to gog to Hartford 2003, when he was bishop of Buffalo startg 1995, Mansell set up an earlier versn of the gay recg work Colombia. Church Milant spoke exclively to multiple semarians who were at Buffalo's Christ the Kg Semary at the time, and two of them told that homosexualy at the semary unr Mansell and Gatto was rampant, and that some of the Colombians were actually parceled out to parish assignments wh active homosexual pastors, who lavished expensive gifts, cludg rs, on the young, gay Colombians exchange for sex. We spoke wh two of the men by phone — one of whom didn't want his name ed — and they both said they left semary bee they were disgted wh the -your-face homosexualy that domated.

Former semarians tell Church Milant that the volvement of Mansell and Serratelli movg around gay semarians beme well known by Church officials, as both the bishops had large numbers of semarians wh their dc, and they need to stter them around different semari so as not to draw too much attentn to their exceptnally high number when the Church the Uned Stat was experiencg a massive drop the numbers of semarians.

In 2012, this issue of the South Amerin gay pipele me to a head when var plats of homosexual activy and sexual abe beme known at Holy Apostl Semary Cromwell, Connecticut, the dce of Norwich, after some there reported that a large number of Colombian and U. Church Milant has received rmatn om semarians about what went on at the semary and how the lol clergy om the archdce of Hartford, as well as other prits om other dc, were volved homosexual activy as well as sexually abg young men studyg for the prithood.

CONNECTICUT EPISPALIANS DEFY BISHOP OVER GAY ISSU

John Lavers: "The vtigatn revealed what is sentially a ntuum of sexual abe and homosexualy of prits that have e to the Church over the last many, many years. And absolutely worth notg — very important — all this was wh jt the last few years, not s and s ago, as many guilty prelat keep tryg to sist orr to flect attentn om the massive, massive crisis of homosexualy among clergy and bishops lyg to ver up. Henry Mansell durg his time Buffalo, young Colombian men, some of whom were homosexual, were actively reced and brought to the Uned Stat unr false pretens, potentially vlatg U.

Once Mansell arrived Hartford 2003, he stepped up his game, so to speak, palizg on what had bee the gay Colombian pipele for Newark, which homosexual predator Theodore McCarrick had left as archbishop jt three years earlier. And yet, the face of a growg mounta of evince that this is a natnwi homosexualy the clergy epimic, bishop after bishop and rdal after rdal ntue to further enrage the fahful every day by nyg the obv — om Newark Cdl. The vast majory of bishops the Uned Stat who have issued statements have all ftly si-stepped and ignored the central issue, what is at the heart of this: the majory prence of homosexual men the prithood, stealg the money om the fahful, stroyg souls and rottg lns of mds.

Robert Baker of Birmgham, Alabama are so far the only two on rerd llg a spa a spa and admtg what a huge number of Catholic lay already know: that this is a problem of homosexualy wh the ranks of bishops and prits. Bee marriage (gay or straight) is nsired a sacrament – an outward sign of God’s love for – we have some l and guil we have to follow, but they are not difficult on.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP, WHOSE ELECTN CSED A STIR, TO DIVORCE

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag.

(Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP GENE ROBSON ON THE DIVISNS WH THE ANGLIN CHURCH, COMG OUT AND LEADG THE INVOTN AT OBAMA’S INGURAL CELEBRATN

“I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. To the activist, feels like a step backward after a lifetime of fightg for gay pack the seats at the Board of Zong Appeals hearg hosted at Grace Epispal Church.

“I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

Though Smh personally oppos same-sex marriage, he agreed unr the dce’s plan to partner wh Bishop Carol Gallagher, then servg as a regnal non the Dce of Massachetts, to provi “supplemental epispal pastoral support” for Albany clergy who wished to celebrate weddgs for gay and lbian upl. Many of the biblil passag “that are often ed to nmn homosexualy are certaly not about morn same-sex marriage and are very likely more terted nmng sexually exploative enunters than the affectn shared by two adults of the same genr, ” Williamson wrote.

MISSOURI EPISPALIANS ELECT PARTNERED GAY BISHOP

Fifty away Watertown, a pastor drew chuckl when he asked his flock to pray for the bishop, who has threatened to silence him for his told, six Epispal church have rejected the thory of the bishop of the Connecticut Dce and stopped payg their dcan du bee of the bishop's liberal views on homosexualy and his support for a gay bishop New bishop, Andrew D.