Contents:
- 21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
- UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS
21 GAY POPES, CARDINALS AND ASSORTED CATHOLIC LEADERS.
One cint that brgs the issue to md is an Associated Prs release on March 3, 2006 that not that the publisher of a weekly newspaper Cameroon (where homosexualy is illegal) was sentenced to four months jail for publishg the nam of people alleged to be gay or lbian. ) The publitn and subsequent trial led to a spike of anti-gay rts.
The bishops and prits who are examg the semari wh a mandate to elimate homosexually oriented ndidat om semari have a rponsibily: In fairns the examers mt reveal their orientatn to those examed. Catholic sats have monstrated for centuri that homosexual orientatn is not an impediment to service, hols, or love.
Members of the foreign prs rps Rome talk eely among themselv about the orientatn of Pop: Pi XII (divid opn), John XXIII, heterosexual, Pl VI, homosexual, John Pl II, heterosexual, and Benedict XVI, homosexual. The New Ways Mistry is a gay-posive mistry of advocy, jtice and renciliatn for lbian and gay Catholics, fai and iends.
UNED METHODISTS ELECT MARRIED GAY CLERGYMAN AMONG 13 NEW BISHOPS WHO REPRENT MANY OTHER FIRSTS
Sce 1977 they have worked for jtice and on behalf of lbian and gay Catholics and renciliatn wh the larger Christian and civil muni. Likewise, DignyUSA is the Uned Stat’ largt and most progrsive anizatn of gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr Catholics.
They make great efforts to unter the dishont, hate-filled, anti-gay rhetoric so prevalent si and outsi the Catholic Church. This is clear s Instctn on the Visatn of Semari where talks about “ep-seated homosexual tennci” and “transnal homosexualy” and s equatn of sexual orientatn wh behavr.
Cardal Levada, now head of the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah (formerly the Office of the Inquisn) on Febary 26, 2006 asked homosexually oriented prits to rema closeted. This suggtn is a travty and only creas the opportuny and danger for good prits—heterosexual and homosexual—to rry on secret, non-celibate liv. The Roman Catholic Church nnot re-tablish s tegry or s credibily until is clear about the distctn between sexual orientatn and behavr; between homosexualy and pedophilia; and the real meang of celibate practice.