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