Harvey Hill, Jennifer Watson, In Christ There Is No Gay or Straight?: Homosexualy and the Epispal Church, Anglin and Epispal History, Vol. 75, No. 1, SPECIAL PRE-GENERAL CONVENTION 2006 ISSUE (March 2006), pp. 37-68
Contents:
HALF OF PRITS AND BISHOPS ARE GAY
The Church of God Christ has tradnally tablished no formal policy about the issu that affect gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer people. * gay bishops in the church of god in christ *
One cint that brgs the issue to md is an Associated Prs release on March 3, 2006 that not that the publisher of a weekly newspaper Cameroon (where homosexualy is illegal) was sentenced to four months jail for publishg the nam of people alleged to be gay or lbian. The bishops and prits who are examg the semari wh a mandate to elimate homosexually oriented ndidat om semari have a rponsibily: In fairns the examers mt reveal their orientatn to those examed. Catholic sats have monstrated for centuri that homosexual orientatn is not an impediment to service, hols, or love.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
Members of the foreign prs rps Rome talk eely among themselv about the orientatn of Pop: Pi XII (divid opn), John XXIII, heterosexual, Pl VI, homosexual, John Pl II, heterosexual, and Benedict XVI, homosexual. The New Ways Mistry is a gay-posive mistry of advocy, jtice and renciliatn for lbian and gay Catholics, fai and iends. Sce 1977 they have worked for jtice and on behalf of lbian and gay Catholics and renciliatn wh the larger Christian and civil muni.
Likewise, DignyUSA is the Uned Stat’ largt and most progrsive anizatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Catholics. They make great efforts to unter the dishont, hate-filled, anti-gay rhetoric so prevalent si and outsi the Catholic Church. This is clear s Instctn on the Visatn of Semari where talks about “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and “transnal homosexualy” and s equatn of sexual orientatn wh behavr.