Gay bishop, whose nomatn spl church years ago, viss Falls Church - The Washgton Post

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• GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH
• EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP, WHOSE ELECTN CSED A STIR, TO DIVORCE
• RETIRED BISHOP GENE ROBSON ON BEG GAY AND LOVG GOD
• GENE ROBSON, 1ST GAY BISHOP US, REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY
• FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP TO LEAD THE EPISPAL DCE OF MISSOURI WH HOPE AND VISN
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO RETIRE
• EPISPAL CHURCH PANEL L AGAST BISHOP WHO BANNED GAY MARRIAGE DCE: HE 'VLATED NON LAW'
• OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA
• GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM

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

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.

Burl Salmon of The Falls Church, 51, who is openly gay, troduced Robson.

EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP

Robson said he had the urage to be an openly gay man after readg “Embracg the Exile: Healg Journeys of Gay Christians” by John E. But a gay prit her hometown of Mneapolis explaed to her that the bigotry of some didn’t terme what was te for the majory, she said. The Epispal Church has nsecrated a woman as s send openly gay bishop, seven years after stirrg lgerg ntroversy by ordag a man to a siar Rev.

It also mak her one of the first two female bishops the Dce of Los Angel' 114-year Epispal Church, which is the Anglin body the Uned Stat, ed turmoil the church 2003 by nsecratg the first openly gay bishop, V. Jt before the ceremony began, a man stood, shouted about the need to repent and held up a sign that read "Do not be ceived, homosexuals will not her the kgdom of God.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO DIVORCE HBAND

2004, Anglin lears asked the Epispal Church for a moratorium on electg another gay bishop while they tried to prevent a permanent break the the requt was ma, some Epispal gay prits have been nomated for bishop, but none was elected before Glasspool.

Church's top policy makg body, affirmed that gay and lbian prits were eligible to bee bishops. Glasspool, 56, an adviser, or non, for eight years to the Dce of Maryland's bishop, said an say on the Los Angel dce Web se that she had an "tense stggle" while llege wh her sexualy and the ll to bee a did not speak Saturday, but told a gatherg of media Friday that the church's willgns to orda women and gays shows a mment that go beyond mere clive language. | 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.

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

”“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.

RETIRED BISHOP GENE ROBSON ON BEG GAY AND LOVG GOD

NEW YORK — The first openly gay Epispal bishop, who beme a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while eply dividg the world's Anglins, plans to divorce his Gene Robson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew an email sent to the Dce of New Hampshire, where he served for ne years before retirg 2012. Robson was barred 2008 by then-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams om the Lambeth Conference, the once-a- global meetg of all Anglin bishops, as Williams stggled to fd a way to keep Anglins Robson was also wily celebrated as a pneer for gay rights, beme an advote for gay marriage and was the subject of several books and a documentary about Christiany, the Bible and same-sex livered the benedictn at the openg 2009 gural event for Print Barack Obama and, after retirement, beme a senr fellow at the Center for Amerin Progrs, a Democratic thk tank wh close ti to the Whe Hoe.

The two men were joed a 2008 civil unn New Hampshire, and beme a legal marriage when the state regnized gay marriage 2010.

GENE ROBSON, 1ST GAY BISHOP US, REMEMBERS TUTU’S GENEROSY

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. Gene Robson, who ma history as the first openly gay bishop the Epispal Church, has announced that he and his hband are planng to Robson, who last year retired as the head of the Epispal Dce of New Hampshire, disclosed the breakup of his marriage a note to other Epispal bishops and an say The Daily Beast, where he is a lumnist.

His electn, and the cisn by the Epispal Church natnally to approve the electn rults, was ntroversial bee me at a time when many Christian nomatns viewed homosexualy as sful, were not ordag openly gay clergy members, and were not blsg same-sex relatnships. In the sce, a few Christian nomatns have changed their stanc on homosexualy as same-sex marriage has bee legal parts of the untry; the Epispal Church has sce elected another gay bishop, and has approved a lurgil re for blsg same-sex Robson, who is now a senr fellow at the Center for Amerin Progrs Washgton, has been a leadg champn of gay rights, pecially the relig world, and was ved by Print Obama to give an votn at an guratn event 2009, and to give the closg prayer at this year’s Whe Hoe Easter prayer personal life was always an element of how he prented himself to the public. He had been married to a woman, and fathered two dghters, but 1986 he me out as gay, and separated om his wife.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 14 of the New York edn wh the headle: First Openly Gay Epispal Bishop, Whose Electn Csed a Stir, to Divorce. Gene Robson, the first openly gay bishop the Epispal Church, has retired. He'll start workg wh the Center for Amerin Progrs, a progrsive rearch and policy anizatn, on issu of fah and gay rights.

FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP TO LEAD THE EPISPAL DCE OF MISSOURI WH HOPE AND VISN

For many years, didn't occur to Bishop Gene Robson — the first openly gay bishop the Epispal Church — that he might retire before age 72, the mandatory retirement age for Epispal bishops.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO RETIRE

But then, 2010, Mary Glasspool, who is also openly gay, was elected bishop sufagan the Dce of Los Angel and, for the first time, Robson rensired his retirement plans.

"There is an openly gay voice the Hoe of Bishops, and is there somethg else that I would really like to do — and perhaps that God is llg me to do? There, Robson will be workg wh the Center for Amerin Progrs, a progrsive rearch and policy anizatn, on issu of fah and gay rights. Straight Talk About Gay Marriage by Gene Robson.

EPISPAL CHURCH PANEL L AGAST BISHOP WHO BANNED GAY MARRIAGE DCE: HE 'VLATED NON LAW'

" Robson, whose most recent book, God Believ Love: Straight Talk About Gay Marriage, was published September, is an outspoken advote of LGBT rights, the fight he likens to the civil rights movement. "Gay is not somethg we do, " he says. I'm not jt gay when I'm makg love to my hband.

I'm gay all the time.

OLR/ FATTER - NIWEZIJDS GAY SNA

I'm gay right this mute talkg to you, and ... Epispal Church Pridg Bishop Kathare Jefferts Schori has issued the followg statement on LGBT (Lbian Gay Bisexual Transgenr) rights:The Epispal Church has been clear about our expectatn that every member of the LGBT muny is entled to the same rpect and digny as any other member of the human fay.

Unlike the Worldwi Anglin Communn, of which is a part, the Epispal Church do not nmn homosexualy.

GAY THE RED-LIGHT DISTRICT? - AMSTERDAM FOM

In 1976, both the Hoe of Deputi and Hoe of Bishops voted for a fully clive Epispal Church, statg, “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the church.

However, the church had already nsecrated s first openly gay bishop 2003. (CNN) -- Epispal church California and Mnota moved toward appotg gay bishops over the weekend, ls than a month after the nomatn lifted a self-imposed eeze on promotg openly gay clergy to the top ranks of the church. The Dce of Los Angel, one of the largt the untry, clud a gay man and a lbian on s short list for assistant bishop posns Sunday.

The Anglin Communn has been wrtlg wh how to handle homosexualy, a qutn that shows signs of tearg the church apart. The Epispal Church, as the Amerin branch of the Anglin Communn is known, voted overwhelmgly last month to allow gay men and lbians to bee bishops. Los Angel announced six ndidat for posns as assistant bishops, cludg Mary Glasspool and John Kirkley, both of whom spoke openly about beg gay statements on the dce Web se.