Bishop is First Openly Gay Woman to be Consecrated Bishop, Only 2nd Female Dce of Los Angel
Contents:
- EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE
- OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT RECEIV MORE NODS
- EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
- CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
- * J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE
Wh an timated 2.3 ln members, the Epispal Church is open and welg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. * gay episcopal priests *
In 1976, both the Hoe of Deputi and Hoe of Bishops voted for a fully clive Epispal Church, statg, “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.
OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT RECEIV MORE NODS
In 1977, Spong beme one of the first Amerin bishops to orda a woman to the clergy. In 1989, he was the first to orda an openly gay man. Spong died Sept. 12. Origally broadst 1996. * gay episcopal priests *
Wley Hill might embody ntradictn: an openly gay man who is opposed to same-sex marriage and advot celibacy for gay Christians, servg a church that is fully clive of LGBTQ+ people.
EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
* gay episcopal priests *
In 2010, his book “Washed and Wag: Reflectns on Christian Fahfulns and Homosexualy, ” articulated an unmon, nuanced approach to Christian sexualy that diverged om the much lour voic on the right and left. In that and other wrgs, he has argued that the evangelil “ex-gay” movement – which views homosexualy as a disorr that n and should be cured wh nversn therapy – is harmful and immoral.
CATHOLIC PRITS: IT'S 'EMPIRIL FACT' THAT MANY CLERGY ARE GAY
Some Catholic clergy say most prits are gay. * gay episcopal priests *
The view that he helped popularize – acceptg gay orientatns as neher herently sful nor appropriate for sex and marriage – spawned a mostly onle movement among LGBTQ+ Christians that me to be lled Si B.
* J. ROBERT WILLIAMS; FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL PRIT
It offers an alternative to “Si A” Christiany – the more liberal view poed by The Epispal Church and other nomatns that perform same-sex marriag and do not view gay sex as sful.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
And so later when I was really wrtlg both personally as well as theologilly, I got to some of the nversatns about what is an appropriate Christian way to be gay, to live out one’s sexualy. A uple of wrers were really important for me – one was Henri Nouwen, and he wasn’t out durg his lifetime, but subsequently, bgraphers unearthed the fact that he had lived a, by all acunts, celibate gay life, and I eply ronated wh a lot of his wrg on spirualy and psychology and lonels particular.
But I would say even om progrsive folks who disagree wh me, I mean, certaly not all of them, but a lot of the younger on regnize the plexy of this and many of them are gay themselv. Hill: I mean, I don’t want anyone The Epispal Church to feel threatened by me as if I’m tryg to roll back the clock and make gay people go back the closet or whatever. “That was a really strikg moment to me as a Lato gay man, ” said Miguel Esbar, executive director of the Epispal Divy School at Unn Theologil Semary, durg a Hoe of Deputi discsn on May 18 tled “A Full and Equal Claim: LGBTQ+ Epispalians Discs the Path Forward.
“There were some church I applied to that I uldn’t get as a gay person, and there were others that I applied to that I uldn’t get as a Black person, ” Grav told ENS, scribg his earlier job search. The rolutn “nfs the Church’s ntued heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and the ongog harmful impact of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian proclamatn, preachg, pastoral re, and theology” and exprs a renewed mment to ensurg that LGBTQ people experience a “full and equal claim” to church life.