The Church of God Christ has tradnally tablished no formal policy about the issu that affect gay, lbian, bisexual, transgenr and queer people.
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HALF OF PRITS AND BISHOPS ARE GAY
* 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.
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.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
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. Cardal Levada, now head of the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah (formerly the Office of the Inquisn) on Febary 26, 2006 asked homosexually oriented prits to rema closeted. This suggtn is a travty and only creas the opportuny and danger for good prits—heterosexual and homosexual—to rry on secret, non-celibate liv.