The prevly unnamed Internal Revenue Service Whistleblower X revealed himself durg public ttimony before three GOP-led Hoe mte Wednday, sayg he is a gay Democrat married to a man and wrongfully slanred as a partisan operative or a traor to his party.
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- IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT
- ST. LE'S, OTHER CHURCH, TO EX UNED METHODISTS OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, GAY CLERGY
IRS WHISTLEBLOWER X IS JOE ZIEGLER, A GAY DEMOCRAT
The prevly unnamed Internal Revenue Service "Whistleblower X" revealed himself durg public ttimony before three GOP-led Hoe mte Wednday, sayg he is a "gay Democrat married to a man" and wrongfully slanred as a partisan operative or a "traor" to his party. Adam* said was dangero to e out as gay his home untry and feared beg forced to an arranged marriage wh a said he was "so lucky" to wed his soulmate, Ray, Manchter and wish everyone uld marry who they love. There are more than 60 untri wh laws that crimalise same-sex sexual acts acrdg to the Internatnal Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans and Intersex Associatn, cludg Sdi Arabia.
'Authentilly myself'Ray said he had also stggled growg up gay the 1970s and 80s England, which was "tough" said his relig school "dmmed to you, 'you are gog to hell'" Adam returned home to Sdi Arabia, spe beg more than 3, 000 apart and later rtricted by the Covid-19 panmic, they kept touch daily and the romance years ago, Ray proposed on a vio ll and after succsfully applyg for a UK fiancé visa, Adam moved to Manchter December 2022. Adam said he had been aaid to even wear lours his home untry so the first thg he did when he moved was start to "grow my mullet, got my ears pierced and booked appotments for tattoos" relled how, ntrast, one of his gay iends Sdi had been forced to marry a woman, addg: "It has ed not only his life but the life of his wife. The uple, who live London, said a "really betiful memory" was on the way home when one of their sons shouted out of the black b wdow to Trafalgar Square, "My dads jt got married" and cheered "Yay, gay marriage".
Ziegler told the mtee thatl he cid to e forward publicly “not as a hero or a victim, ” but as a married, gay Democrat “pelled to disclose the tth. Renstctnists embrace the bt of our tradn, while embracg the novatns that have ntued to keep Judaism vibrant for each Michael Lutheran Church Pastor Katra Foster 486 Montk Highway Amagansett, NY, 11930 631-655-1174 Sai of Roslyn Rabbi Benjam David 425 Roslyn Rd Roslyn Heights, NY, 11577 516-621-6800 Tikvah Rabbi Randy Sheberg, Cantor Guy Bonne 3315 Hillsi Avenue New Hy Park, NY 11040 516-746-1120 have had the privilege of officiatg at several gay/lbian weddgs recent years. 7th Ave: A Cradle to the Morn Gay Rights Movement.
ST. LE'S, OTHER CHURCH, TO EX UNED METHODISTS OVER SAME-SEX MARRIAGE, GAY CLERGY
But when each of them me out as gay, both realized they didn’t feel at home anymore the spirual hom that shaped their liv.
This stggle is one many gay Christians face–and n be pecially plited for members of the Ain Amerin muny. “The black church is an important fol pot of black life that had a larger than life role people’s everyday existence, ” said Michael Henry Adams, a historian who’s wrg a book lled “Homo Harlem: Lbian and Gay Life the Ain-Amerin Cultural Capal, 1915-1995. “The Church, officially, very much looked down on the very ia of homosexualy, ” Adams said.
Philip’s Church, an Epispal church wh a long history of servg as a refuge for LGBTQ people, attracted a number of gay ngregants, and later, the Memorial Baptist Church performed same-sex weddgs and funerals for gay people.