Gene Robson was the the Epispal Church’s first openly gay bishop.
Contents:
- 1ST GAY MALE EPISPAL PRIT IS ORDAED
- GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH
1ST GAY MALE EPISPAL PRIT IS ORDAED
The next General Conventn, 1976, adopted rolutns statg that “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” (1976-A069), and that they “are entled to equal protectn of the laws wh all other cizens” (1976-A071). Ne years later the Dce of New Hampshire elected the first openly-gay bishop The Epispal Church, the Rt. — An Epispal bishop Saturday ordaed the church’s first openly homosexual male prit a ceremony marred by only one brief John Spong of Newark quickly bshed off two dissenters before formally welg J.
Robert Williams, lear of the Oasis mistry for homosexual Epispalians, to the prithood. Williams is the Epispal Church’s send openly homosexual prit.
1962: October Homosexualy, along wh alholism, is studied by the Hoe of Bishops of the Prottant Epispal Church.
GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH
Wayne of the Church of the Epiphany New York Cy preach that homosexuals “mt be accepted fully to the fellowship of the church” while they also mt seek unselg or psychologil treatment. E., homosexualy and adultery) is praised by Epispalians and nounced by Roman Catholics. Pike claims that laws “aimed at ntrollg homosexualy, sexual practic between man and wife and abortns…mt be changed.
1967: November Durg a symposium on homosexualy sponsored by the Epispal Dc of New York, Connecticut, Long Island, and Newark, nety Epispalian prits agree that the church should classify homosexualy as “morally ntral” and “ some s…a good thg.