Europe’s epeng divi on gay rights - The Washgton Post

Contents:

• A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.
• PAITO WARNA HONGKONG
• GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS
• COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD
• EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS
• ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?
• JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT
• ‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY
• UK: DEFEAT FOR ANTI-GAY CHRISTIANS AT EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS
• ARE GAY CHRISTIANS GENUE CHRISTIANS?
• IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?
• 10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS
• CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

A GAY UPLE RAN A RAL RTRANT PEACE. THEN NEW NEIGHBORS ARRIVED.

The bsman and his wife, Melissa, first plaed to the Front Porch proprietors about pre-dawn vendor liveri 2019, not long after the nservative Christian uple moved their fancial firm right next door to the rtrant, which fli a gay Pri flag. (Front Porch Market and Grill)What’s more, the Washers say, the ad rat was jt one more sult that the uple, who once planted an “all liv matter” sign their ont yard, have endured sce movg next door to a rtrant owned by a gay uple.

They married 2020, five years after they opened the Front Porch, which quickly beme a statn The Front Porch has been flyg a Pri flag on s pat sce 2016, not long after a gunman killed 49 people a gay bar Orlando. “I had so many threats agast me that even the Dallas police statned squad rs outsi our home, ” Waybourn an activist, Waybourn says, his goals were clear: same-sex marriage, gays and lbians the ary, accs to lifavg medic. “I have que a few gay iends, clients and a fay member, and I have patronized a gay-owned rtrant for years, ” he whether the Washers are tryg to remake The Plas to their image of Ameri — Whe, nservative, Christian — Melissa said, “I n see where you’re g om.

| 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. ”“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.

PAITO WARNA HONGKONG

FOR LGBT+ History Month, Pam Gold, former Co-Convenor of the Evangelil Fellowship of Lbian & Gay Christians (EFLGC), and founr of two Open Table muni, shar her story of g out and beg an Evangelil gay out. I knew what others had said about ‘gays’ as I was growg up, but I uld fight no more, I prayed ‘please God if this is real then brg someone to speak to me’ my surprise the next week I got chattg to a patient (I’m an optometrist) and she me out to me - she said she felt that I need to hear .

I ntacted an anisatn lled LGCM (Lbian & Gay Christian Movement, now OneBodyOneFah) and I was sent a bundle of urage my heart and hope for somethg new I went along to a gay Christian group Manchter, where I was the only woman!

GENEVA COLLEGE ALLEGEDLY FIR GAY SOCCER ACH AFTER INSTAGRAM POSTS ABOUT CLIVENS

Neverthels, they put me touch wh a uple of women and, through them, I went along to Metropolan Communy Church (MCC), also known as ‘the gay church’ first urageo steps set me on the path to disvery of beg an ‘out and proud’ lbian Christian wh a ep and meangful relatnship wh God.

COMG OUT AS A GAY EVANGELIL CHRISTIAN - LGBT+ HISTORY MONTH REFLECTN BY PAM GOLD

Earlier this year, the European arm of the ACLJ also cricized the European Commissn’s cisn to cut fundg to Poland’s regns and towns that clared themselv homophobic “LGBT-ee zon.

EUROPE’S EPENG DIVI ON GAY RIGHTS

The urt found 303’s ADF’s rightwg advocy extends further, however, as the anizatn has donated to more than a dozen anti-LGBTQ+ and anti-abortn found that the ADF donated $85, 000 to the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, a group which, acrdg to a Poli report, helped Florida Republins shape the state’s so-lled “don’t say gay” law, which prohibs discsn of sexual orientatn and genr inty group has also sued two school districts Florida over issu relatg to the rights of trans youth. The European Fom of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr Christian Groups is an ecumenil associatn of LGBT Christian groups European Fom aims to achieve equaly and cln for LGBT people wh and through Christian church, other relig bodi and multilateral European Fom works for eedom of relign, for human rights and digny for LGBT people and for an affirmative disurse on human European Fom of LGBT Christian Groups enjoys participatory stat wh the Council of Europe. So, given the typil life experience of those wh same-sex attractn that I jt scribed, what’s the big al about llg onelf a gay Christian as long as one is followg the biblil sexual ethic?

ARE THERE REALLY “GAY CHRISTIANS”?

Sign up to get the rt, cludg news om around the globe, tertg ias and opns to know, sent to your box every a Febary asslt on a same-sex uple at a Rome tra statn, lls heightened for what Italy lacked: A hate crime law to bat homophobia. “Two young men beaten up for a kiss, ” lamented Nila Zgaretti, ernor of Laz, the Italian regn where Rome happened next beme a se study of how gay rights have surged to the foreont of Europe’s culture wars. ” The Vatin etted that Catholic schools might need to hold events for a natnal anti-homophobia day, cryg gement on eedom of a showdown last week, the Italian Senate rejected the bill an act that roed nservative lawmakers to a standg ovatn.

JAGUARS ACH KEV MAXEN OUT AS GAY HISTORIC ANNOUNCEMENT

In neighborg France, where natnalist doyenne Mare Le Pen had leaned to most outreach toward gay voters, her newly surgg far-right challenger Éric Zemmour is toeg a ls clive le. Neverthels, the heated LBGTQ bate on the ntent suggts that equal rights are not que the done al the Wt that some gay activists once thought, particularly as the movement has broaned s foc to clu genr inty — a hot-button topic that has riled the right on both sis of the Atlantic for years. But European far-right lears like Holland’s Geert Wilrs and France’s Le Pen have more often targeted migrants, not gay people, even labelg themselv as protectors of the LBGTQ muny om what they scribe as the dangers posed by Islamist fundamentalism.

’s tegry than Poland and Hungary, where anti-gay legislative efforts backed by right-wg ernments have been challenged by untri are now at the heart of the bate not only over “re European valu, ” but whether they n and should rema wh the European 's parliament has bated a proposed law to ban LGBT paras and other "promotn" of bill, which is a cizens' iative, received backg om some lg party MPs but led opposn MPs to leave the chamber prott Not om Poland ?? (@notompoland) October 29, 2021. Facg a tough challenge om a uned opposn electns next year, the tocratic Print Viktor Orban — who long promoted “Christian valu” while largely reag om a Poland-like war on gay rights — is now apparently lculatg that the issue is a polil wner.

“The anti-gay mpaign Hungary me out of almost nowhere this summer; ’s as if they cut and pasted the issue om the Polish ernment, ” Peter Kreko, director of Polil Capal Instute, a Budapt-based thk tank, told me. There, Orthodox Christians are more acceptg of the practice; more than half (54% as of 2014) favor allowg gay and lbian upl to marry legally, almost mirrorg the share of Amerin adults overall who took this posn 2014 (53%). As is te for homosexualy and same-sex marriage, Orthodox Christians former Soviet republics are somewhat more nservative on the legaly of abortn than are other Orthodox Christians Eastern Europe.

‘GAY KE’ ROW: MAN LOS SEVEN-YEAR BATTLE AGAST BELFAST BAKERY

While more recent surveys did not ask Orthodox Ethpians about homosexualy, same-sex marriage or abortn, a 2008 Pew Rearch Center survey did ask this group about the moraly of “homosexual behavr, ” of “havg an abortn, ” and other behavrs.

Orthodox Christians Ethpia are more likely than those most Eastern European untri to raise moral objectns to several of the behavrs, although Orthodox Christians Eastern Europe – both former Soviet republics and elsewhere – also wily see homosexual behavr and prostutn as morally wrong. 1 He garnered natnal attentn aga 2013 when he started his mistry The Reformatn Project and hosted a nference to teach people how to “reform” the church on the issue of homosexualy. However, I want to turn to exame two of the key assertns on which V reli God and the Gay Christian: the ia that “sexual orientatn” nnot be changed, and the relevance of celibacy to his pot.

UK: DEFEAT FOR ANTI-GAY CHRISTIANS AT EUROPEAN COURT OF HUMAN RIGHTS

Owen Strachan, assistant profsor of Christian theology and church history at SBTS, wr about the problem wh g the term “gay Christian” to scribe believers who al wh same-sex attractn. Some Christians argue that while inty Christ is of first importance for a believer to grasp, we should also enurage them to mata this other inty as a “gay Christian, ” as a way of classifyg their experience.

Many people alg wh SSA will be tempted to say what Matthew V has—that beg homosexual is simply part of who they are—and to treat that as a sendary inty to or as a replacement for their inty as a new creatn Christ. Moreover, such a msage also ntradicts the Apostle Pl’s msage 1 Corthians 6:11 when he said that Christians have been “washed, ” “sanctified, ” and “jtified” Christ—and Pl specifilly clus homosexualy the list of thgs the believers had left behd.

ARE GAY CHRISTIANS GENUE CHRISTIANS?

V’s other key assumptn God and the Gay Christian is that celibacy should only be practiced by those lled to , and the men and women alg wh SSA who are not lled to celibacy should be allowed to fulfill their sexual sir through marriage. Homosexual behavr is s, makg the celibacy discsn relevant only the sense that a profsg Christian has repented of s such as homosexual behavr and abstas om for the rt of his life, even if that means acceptg celibacy and tstg God for the grace to live up to that ll. The re msage of God and the Gay Christian is not to “challenge” or “dispute” the Bible self, or to qutn whether the text is spired and thorative our liv as followers of Christ.

Matthew V is not placg his own dividual experience as a gay Christian over the tth of the bible [sic], and he is not even challengg the words of scripture [sic] bee of his personal experience. Christians who stand firmly on the thory of Scripture when to homosexual behavr may want to lash out at people who impugn the Word of God, such as Matthew V, or at church that embrace such a mixture of worldly philosophy wh biblil doctre.

David & Jonathan David & Jonathan is a French associatn of both male and female LGBT Christians, found 1972 wh the aim of helpg people rencile their Christian fah wh their homosexualy.

IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

AG (Arbesgemeschaft) Schwule Theologie Sce 1993, the Study Group Gay Theology is discsg and wrg about the bible, theologi of Christian church, and spirualy om a gay pot of view. Werkverband van Katholieke Homo-Pastor (WKHP) The Workg Group of Catholic Gay Pastors, found 1980, currently has seventy members: gay prits, relig people, theologians, and others, who are volved pastoral work wh the Roman Catholic Church. The aims of the Workg Group are among others: to create a ee space and a safe haven for s members, where beg gay is not an issue; to stimulate the discsn wh and outsi the Roman Catholic Church about (homo)sexualy and Christian life; to strive for regnn of the full range of (sexual) relatnships, through which people n be a blsg for each other.

Associació Cristiana Gais i Lbian Catalunya (ACGIL)Sce 1991, the Gay and Lbian Christian Associatn of Catalonia offers a space of receptn for meetgs, reflectn, prayer, and support for Christians, who want to rencile their sexual orientatn and their fah.

ACGIL works on improvg (a) the visibily of LGBT people Christian church to make the former more clive and sensive towards the prence of women, lbians, gays, bisexuals, and transsexuals; and (b) the visibily of Christians the LGBT muny.

10 REASONS GOD LOV GAY CHRISTIANS

Members of AWAB are church, anizatns, and dividuals who are willg to go on rerd as welg and affirmg all persons whout regard to sexual orientatn or genr inty, and who have joed together to advote for the full cln of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr persons wh Baptist muni of fah. A project of The Center for Lbian and Gay Studi Relign and Mistry, whose goal is to create a strong work of relig lears, relig ngregatns/muni, and dividuals of fah the ne-unty Bay Area, who are highly motivated to act as agents of posive social change. To provi support for Mennone and Church of the Brethren lbian, gay, transgenr, and bisexual people, their iends and fai; foster dialogue between gay and non-gay people church; and provi accurate rmatn about human sexualy om var theologil, soclogil, psychologil, and biblil perspectiv.

Followg the risen Christ, and seekg to make the Church a te muny of hospaly, the missn of More Light Prbyterians is to work for the full participatn of lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people of fah the life, mistry and wns of the Prbyterian Church (USA).

CAN SOMEONE BE GAY AND CHRISTIAN? IS POSSIBLE TO BE A GAY CHRISTIAN?

To make the Church of the Nazarene a safe place for s LGBT members by removg homophobia all areas of the Church and by creatg a posive and nstctive dialogue between members about sexual orientatn and Christiany. The Network on Relign and Jtice for Asian Amerin and Pacific Islanr Lbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgenr people (NRJ-API-LGBT) is a aln of anizatns and dividuals affirmg the digny and spirual wholens of API LGBT people of fah.

Unarian Universalism is a welg and clive nomatn for lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr, and queer people and fai and dit natnal staff to the work of beg ever more welg and clive. The Coaln provis support and sanctuary to all of our lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr sisters and brothers, their fai and iends; advot for their full cln church and society; and brgs Christ's affirmg msage of love and jtice for all people.