Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns : NPR

Contents:

• OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS
• WHAT 10 PRITS SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY CATHOLIC PRIT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• ‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT
• MEET THE GAY PRIT GETTG MARRIEDGAY PRIT PRIANDREW CA WILL BEE THE FIRST CLERGYMAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND’S FIVE-CENTURY HISTORY TO MARRY HIS SAME-SEX PARTNER, FIANCE OF A BAN BY CHURCH LEARS.NI HWORLD EDORUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 24, 2014 9:45PM EDT THE DAILY BEASTA PROLIFIC THIEF BROKE TO THE VTRY OF A NORTH LONDON CHURCH; GRABBED THE WEEKLY LLECTN, AN IPHONE AND SOME SILVER, AND BEGAN HIS GETAWAY. HE PHED PAST A FEMALE CURATE AND RACED TOWARDS THE EX, BUT FATHER ANDREW CA GOT TO THE DOORWAY FIRST. TALL AND BROAD-CHTED, HE BELLOWED: “GET ON YOUR KNE!” THE ECCLIASTIL CIZEN’S ARRT WAS WILY CELEBRATED BRA AT THE TIME. TWO YEARS LATER, CA IS ABOUT TO MAKE HEADL AGA, BUT THIS TIME HIS REER IS HANGG THE BALANCE. DEFYG THE CHURCH’S ORRS, HE WILL BEE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGYMAN TO ENTER TO A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.THE CHURCH, WHICH IS AT THE HEART OF THE 80 LN-STRONG WORLDWI ANGLIN COMMUNN, HAS ALWAYS FED MARRIAGE AS A NTRACT BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, AND REFED TO REGNIZE BRA’S LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE, WHICH TO FORCE AT THE END OF THE MONTH. CHURCH OFFICIALS ARE FUR THAT CA IS IGNORG A LG BY THE HOE OF BISHOPS, WHICH BANS CLERGYMEN OM PERFORMG SAME-SEX WEDDGS THEIR CHURCH AND ORRS GAY VIRS NOT TO MARRY.DISREGARDG THE DIKTAT, CA, 50, AND HIS FIANCé, STEPHEN FORHEW, 40, OFFICIALLY REGISTERED THEIR TENTN TO MARRY AT CAMN TOWN HALL LONDON LAST WEEK. THEY WANT TO KEEP THE LOTN OF THEIR JUNE WEDDG SECRET SE ATTRACTS UNWANTED ATTENTN, BUT NCE WON’T BE TAKG PLACE A CHURCH SPE CA’S 28 YEARS THE CLERGY. “I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE JOB, BUT I’M FDG REALLY QUE HARD TO LOVE THE CHURCH AT THE MOMENT,” HE SAID, STROKG ONE OF HIS TWO HANDSOME BENGAL TS. “I FEEL VERY ANGRY AND QUE BTER ABOUT THE WAY THE CHURCH IS BEHAVG.” THE PRIT, WHO OVERSE TWO PARISH NORTH-WT LONDON, DISCLOSED TO THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE HAD BEEN HLED ONT OF HIS BISHOP LAST WEEK. CA SAID HE WAS SUMMONED TO THE HOME OF THE RT REVD PETER WHEATLEY, BISHOP OF EDMONTON, ALONG WH A CHURCH HUMAN ROURC OFFICER, AND REPRIMAND FOR HIS OPEN FIANCE OF THE ECCLIASTIL GUIL.“HE WAS OFFEND ABOUT THE FACT THAT I WAS BEG PUBLIC MY OPPOSN TO THE BISHOPS, AND I SAID, ‘WELL, ACTUALLY I THK YOU ARE WRONG AND I’M SORRY BUT THIS IS NSCIENT DISSENT,’” CA SAID. “I’VE KNOWN HIM FOR 15 YEARS— WAS AN EXTRAORDARILY AWKWARD AND DIFFICULT THG.”CA SAID THE BISHOP TRIED TO NVCE HIM TO ABANDON HIS WEDDG PLANS AND ORRED HIM TO STOP CRICIZG THE CHURCH’S POSN. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS NO FORMAL GUIL FOR BISHOPS ON HANDLG MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY WHO DISREGARD LGS ON GAY MARRIAGE, BUT A CHURCH OFFICIAL SAID CA ULD BE SANCTNED OR EVEN DISMISSED FOR “NDUCT UNBEG” THE CLERGY. WHEATLEY CLED TO MENT ON THE MEETG.THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHICH BROKE OM THE VATIN 1534 SO THAT HENRY VIII ULD TAKE A SEND WIFE, HAS OFTEN BEEN CELEBRATED FOR S ACCEPTG AND OPEN ATTU. IN FACT, CA TIMATED THAT A THIRD OF THE CLERGY LONDON ARE GAY. A CLERGYMAN, WHO DID NOT WISH TO BE NAMED, CLAIMED THAT AT LEAST 13 OF THE CHURCH’S 42 BISHOPS WERE ALSO GAY, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NOT PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED . “GAY PEOPLE HAVE VERY OFTEN A HEIGHTENED SENSIVY TO THGS OF BETY AND SPIRUALY,” CA SUGGTED. “THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH.”FOR GENERATNS, GAY PRITS WERE ACCEPTED TO THE CHURCH AS LONG AS THEY WERE WILLG TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT . THIS “WOOLLY” APPROACH TO RELIG DOCTRE HAS BEEN SORELY TTED RECENT YEARS WH THE CHURCH DIVID OVER FEMALE BISHOPS AND GAY MARRIAGE. CONONTED BY THE BRISH ERNMENT’S TRODUCTN OF GAY MARRIAGE, THE CHURCH WAS SUDNLY FACED WH A DILEMMA: ABOUT A THIRD OF BRISH WEDDGS ARE CURRENTLY HELD CHURCH, LEAVG THE BISHOPS TO CI WHETHER THEY WOULD OPEN THEIR DOORS TO A NEW SET OF MARRIAG.THE MOST SENR CLERGYMAN THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, JT WELBY, THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE ATTEMPT TO UPHOLD TRADNAL TEACHGS WAS BEG PROBLEMATIC. “THERE IS A GREAT FEAR THAT OUR CISNS WILL LEAD TO THE REJECTN OF LGBT PEOPLE, TO IRRELEVANCE A CHANGG SOCIETY, TO BEHAVR THAT MANY SEE AK TO RACISM,” HE SAID.DPE HIS WARNGS, THE HOE OF BISHOPS ISSUED AN UNEXPECTEDLY STRGENT STATEMENT ON VALENTE’S DAY. THERE WOULD BE NO SAME-SEX WEDDGS CHURCH, NO PRAYER CEREMONI—UNLS THEY CLUD A REPRIMAND FOR THE UPLE—AND ABSOLUTELY NO GAY CLERGY WERE ALLOWED TO MARRY.CONSERVATIVE GROUPS THE CHURCH WELED THE LG. THE REV. ANDREW SYM, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF ANGLIN MASTREAM, SAID: “THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY IS WRONG.”HE WAS AMONG THOSE BEECHG CA TO ACCEPT THE WORD OF HIS SUPERRS. “IN ANY ANIZATN IF PEOPLE GO AGAST WHAT THEIR LEARS SAY ’S GOG TO E DIFFICULTI. THERE IS A NVERSATN GOG ON SI THE CHURCH ABOUT THIS AND MR. CA PRUMABLY FEELS THAT HE WANTS TO PRE-EMPT THAT NVERSATN. HE THKS HE HAS THE RIGHT TO OVERTURN CENTURI OF CHRISTIAN TEACHG JT ON HIS OWN THORY,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THE VAST MAJORY OF CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. WE’VE GOT A WTERN CULTURE THAT HAS CID TO CHANGE THIS THE LAST FEW YEARS; ’S A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS VIEW SO MR. CA IS VERY MUCH THE MORY.”AT THE CENTER OF THIS MAELSTROM, ’S BS AS UAL FOR CA. THIS WEEK A MASSIVE REFURBISHMENT PROJECT BEGAN AT THE STUNNG RED-BRICK ST JAM’ CHURCH WT HAMPSTEAD, WHERE SERVIC WERE FIRST HELD 1880. HE HAS RAISED MORE THAN HALF A LN DOLLARS TO TRANSFORM THE CHURCH TO A Fé, CRèCHE AND THE FIRST CHURCH THE UNTRY TO HOE A MAJOR BRANCH OF THE POST OFFICE.THE CHAIRS, STATU AND RELIG INS, SOME OF WHICH DATE BACK TO THE 16TH CENTURY, WERE BEG HURRIEDLY PACKED AWAY; A PAIR OF J LAY ON THEIR BACKS ON THE DAIS.AT THE FAL SE MEETG BEFORE NSTCTN BEGAN, CA WAS A NO-NONSENSE MOOD. DRSED A RED BLAZER, HE REFED TO ACCEPT THE BUILRS’ APOLOGI FOR A ONE-WEEK LAY. “SERLY, LET’S NOT START SLIPPG AT THE FIRST MEETG,” HE SAID. AFTER A SPELL OF FUTILE RISTANCE OM THE NSTCTN TEAM AND PROJECT MANAGER, THEY WERE BACK ON SCHLE AND CA SAT BACK HIS CHAIR SATISFIED.“I’VE BEEN TOLD TO BUTTON MY LIP,” HE SAID, SG.HIS SCHEME TO RE-TEGRATE THE CHURCH BACK TO THE CENTER OF THIS URBAN MUNY HAS WON CA A LEGN OF ADMIRERS. “UNTIL STEPHEN AND I GOT ENGAGED I WAS SEEN AS A SORT OF MOL VIR FOR G UP WH THIS IA AND PHG THROUGH,” HE SAID. “BUT I’VE JT BEE A PROBLEM NOW.”HOPPG TO HIS RACG GREEN MI—“JT DON’T LL ME A TRENDY VIR”—HE MA HIS WAY TO THE NEXT APPOTMENT, A SCHOOL BOARD MEETG. “ALLOWG WOMEN PRITS WAS THE START OF ,” HE SAID ON THE WAY. “THE SAME APPROACH TO SCRIPTURE LEADS TO ACCEPTG THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE GAY PEOPLE. THE WISHY-WASHY MORAT THE MIDDLE ACCEPTED WOMEN BEE, ‘WELL, I’M MARRIED TO A WOMAN’ OR ‘ JT SEEMS LIKE THE RIGHT THG TO DO’ BUT THEY HADN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THE THEOLOGIL IMPLITNS.”WHEN THE HOE OF BISHOPS MA S LG, CA WAS APPALLED. “IT MAK LOOK LIKE NEANRTHALS QUE ANKLY. WE LOOK LIKE RACISTS,” HE SAID, AS HE WEAVED AND OUT OF THE BY LONDON TRAFFIC.EACH CHURCH WH THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, WHICH NTU TO SPREAD AND GROW OM S ROOTS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, HAS TAKEN S OWN VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE. GENE ROBSON BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CLERGYMAN TO BE NSECRATED AS A BISHOP THE U.S. EPISPAL CHURCH 2003, WHILE SOME OF THE AIN CHURCH HAVE TAKEN CREASGLY NSERVATIVE STEPS.“THE UGANDAN CHURCH HAS JT ANNOUNCED THAT ’S GOG TO START PERFORMG EXORCISMS ON PEOPLE TO CURE THEM OM BEG GAY,” HE SAID. “ONE WOULD HOPE, ALL CHRISTIAN HONTY, THAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WOULD SPEAK OUT. THERE’S A SORT OF STRANGE REVERSE-LONIALISM WHERE THE BISHOPS THE WT DON’T FEEL EE TO CRICIZE THE AIN BISHOPS, AND IF WE DO THE AINS ACCE OF LONIALISM, WELL ACTUALLY NO, YOU’RE JT PLA WRONG AND YOU’RE DOG BAD THGS. THEY’RE ALL A B NSERVATIVE AND NASTY.”FRED PHELPS, WHO DIED LAST WEEK, WAS ANOTHER CHURCHMAN WH UNFAVORABLE VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALY. “MAY HE RT PEACE,” CA SAID. “I THK HE WAS A VERY SAD AND RATHER PATHETIC PERSON REALLY, I TAKE NO PLEASURE ANY MAN’S ATH I JT HOPE HE NOW SE THE ERROR OF THE WAY HE’D BEEN BEHAVG. IF WE BELIEVE HEAVEN AND FIVENS WHEN HE GETS THERE HE’LL BE FOR A TERRIBLE SHOCK.”CA DID NOT TEND TO BEE A E CéLèBRE. HE PROPOSED TO FORSHEW ON FEBARY 14TH, THE SAME DAY THAT THE BISHOPS WERE CIDG TO CURTAIL THE CLERGY’S ACCS TO BRA’S NEW GAY MARRIAGE LAWS. “THE BISHOPS MA AN ISSUE OF , NOT ME,” HE SAID.FORSHEW, AN IT DIRECTOR AND ATHEIST, SAID HE WAS TERRIFIED THAT HIS PARTNER’S OPENNS ULD BRG A PREMATURE END TO HIS LIFE’S WORK. “I FD HIS BRAVERY EXTRAORDARY,” HE SAID. “IF PUNIVE ACTN WAS TAKEN BY THE CHURCH WOULD BE VERY PAFUL AND EXTREMELY TRMATIC FOR HIM.”CA’S PLACE HISTORY WAS SECURED OVER A STEAK DNER OKED AT HOME ON VALENTE’S DAY: “I MA STEPHEN’S FAVORE MEAL AND AT THE END OF I SAID, ‘WILL YOU MARRY ME?’ AND HE SAID, ‘GET DOWN ON ONE KNEE,’ AND I GOT DOWN ON ONE KNEE AND SAID WILL YOU MARRY ME? AND HE SAID Y.” NI H
• PRIT TELLS CATHOLICS HOW TO RPOND WHEN ASKED IF THEY SUPPORT GAY ‘MARRIAGE’

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns Rachel Mart speaks wh Fr. Openly Gay Catholic Prit Discs Pope Francis' Appeal For LGBTQ Protectns. He's an openly gay Catholic MASSINGALE: I was actually very exced and even jubilant, I have to say.

I was very, very pleased to hear the pope make this kd of endorsement of civil unns for gay and lbian persons. And he says that gay and lbian persons have the right to a fay and a right to a fay life. And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church? I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage. We have to remember that homosexualy is still crimalized over 70 untri.

WHAT 10 PRITS SAY ABOUT GAY MARRIAGE

And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle.

In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children.

And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay. " It lled on Catholics "to wele wh rpect and sensivy persons wh homosexual clatns. " The Vatin also said that s refal to give relig approval to same-sex marriage do not preclu givg blsgs to homosexual people.

GAY CATHOLIC PRIT ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

" The Vatin's msage ced Francis' own words om 2016, when he wrote, "there are absolutely no grounds for nsirg homosexual unns to be any way siar or even remotely analogo to God's plan for marriage and fay. Pope Francis has been viewed wh ut optimism by LGBTQ groups bee of remarks like his statement, wily published 2020, that homosexuals are "part of the fay" and that same-sex and other nontradnal upl need a "civil unn law. 10 prits were recently asked to wre roughly 4 sentenc on the topic of “gay marriage.

Homosexual acts and supposed “gay marriag” do not follow this natural orr, and are a dis-orr that do not brg the stabily, peace, and fulfillment which love and fellowship should supply. John Hollowell om IndianaIn talkg gay “marriage” we so often get bogged down argug pots about children, the mon good, etc. Same-sex attractn is not a source of happs (which the word “gay” impli) but as the techism says, “nstut for most [wh homosexual tennci] a trial) (2358).

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

Words mt mean thgs; “Gay Marriage” do not rpect the meang of eher word. Shenan Boquet om Virgia (Print of Human Life Internatnal)Many Catholics, out of a scere but misrmed passn, thk they mt approve of the stctive homosexual liftyle and the refn of marriage, lt they “judge” another person. The sndal ed by this nfn leads also to the further margalizatn of those who fend tradnal marriage light of God’s moral and natural law, and leads to the loss of souls who sadly approve of this sful homosexual liftyle.

MEET THE GAY PRIT GETTG MARRIEDGAY PRIT PRIANDREW CA WILL BEE THE FIRST CLERGYMAN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND’S FIVE-CENTURY HISTORY TO MARRY HIS SAME-SEX PARTNER, FIANCE OF A BAN BY CHURCH LEARS.NI HWORLD EDORUPDATED JUL. 12, 2017 1:33PM EDT / PUBLISHED MAR. 24, 2014 9:45PM EDT THE DAILY BEASTA PROLIFIC THIEF BROKE TO THE VTRY OF A NORTH LONDON CHURCH; GRABBED THE WEEKLY LLECTN, AN IPHONE AND SOME SILVER, AND BEGAN HIS GETAWAY. HE PHED PAST A FEMALE CURATE AND RACED TOWARDS THE EX, BUT FATHER ANDREW CA GOT TO THE DOORWAY FIRST. TALL AND BROAD-CHTED, HE BELLOWED: “GET ON YOUR KNE!” THE ECCLIASTIL CIZEN’S ARRT WAS WILY CELEBRATED BRA AT THE TIME. TWO YEARS LATER, CA IS ABOUT TO MAKE HEADL AGA, BUT THIS TIME HIS REER IS HANGG THE BALANCE. DEFYG THE CHURCH’S ORRS, HE WILL BEE THE FIRST CHURCH OF ENGLAND CLERGYMAN TO ENTER TO A SAME-SEX MARRIAGE.THE CHURCH, WHICH IS AT THE HEART OF THE 80 LN-STRONG WORLDWI ANGLIN COMMUNN, HAS ALWAYS FED MARRIAGE AS A NTRACT BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN, AND REFED TO REGNIZE BRA’S LEGALIZATN OF GAY MARRIAGE, WHICH TO FORCE AT THE END OF THE MONTH. CHURCH OFFICIALS ARE FUR THAT CA IS IGNORG A LG BY THE HOE OF BISHOPS, WHICH BANS CLERGYMEN OM PERFORMG SAME-SEX WEDDGS THEIR CHURCH AND ORRS GAY VIRS NOT TO MARRY.DISREGARDG THE DIKTAT, CA, 50, AND HIS FIANCé, STEPHEN FORHEW, 40, OFFICIALLY REGISTERED THEIR TENTN TO MARRY AT CAMN TOWN HALL LONDON LAST WEEK. THEY WANT TO KEEP THE LOTN OF THEIR JUNE WEDDG SECRET SE ATTRACTS UNWANTED ATTENTN, BUT NCE WON’T BE TAKG PLACE A CHURCH SPE CA’S 28 YEARS THE CLERGY. “I’VE ALWAYS LOVED THE JOB, BUT I’M FDG REALLY QUE HARD TO LOVE THE CHURCH AT THE MOMENT,” HE SAID, STROKG ONE OF HIS TWO HANDSOME BENGAL TS. “I FEEL VERY ANGRY AND QUE BTER ABOUT THE WAY THE CHURCH IS BEHAVG.” THE PRIT, WHO OVERSE TWO PARISH NORTH-WT LONDON, DISCLOSED TO THE DAILY BEAST THAT HE HAD BEEN HLED ONT OF HIS BISHOP LAST WEEK. CA SAID HE WAS SUMMONED TO THE HOME OF THE RT REVD PETER WHEATLEY, BISHOP OF EDMONTON, ALONG WH A CHURCH HUMAN ROURC OFFICER, AND REPRIMAND FOR HIS OPEN FIANCE OF THE ECCLIASTIL GUIL.“HE WAS OFFEND ABOUT THE FACT THAT I WAS BEG PUBLIC MY OPPOSN TO THE BISHOPS, AND I SAID, ‘WELL, ACTUALLY I THK YOU ARE WRONG AND I’M SORRY BUT THIS IS NSCIENT DISSENT,’” CA SAID. “I’VE KNOWN HIM FOR 15 YEARS— WAS AN EXTRAORDARILY AWKWARD AND DIFFICULT THG.”CA SAID THE BISHOP TRIED TO NVCE HIM TO ABANDON HIS WEDDG PLANS AND ORRED HIM TO STOP CRICIZG THE CHURCH’S POSN. THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS NO FORMAL GUIL FOR BISHOPS ON HANDLG MEMBERS OF THE CLERGY WHO DISREGARD LGS ON GAY MARRIAGE, BUT A CHURCH OFFICIAL SAID CA ULD BE SANCTNED OR EVEN DISMISSED FOR “NDUCT UNBEG” THE CLERGY. WHEATLEY CLED TO MENT ON THE MEETG.THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHICH BROKE OM THE VATIN 1534 SO THAT HENRY VIII ULD TAKE A SEND WIFE, HAS OFTEN BEEN CELEBRATED FOR S ACCEPTG AND OPEN ATTU. IN FACT, CA TIMATED THAT A THIRD OF THE CLERGY LONDON ARE GAY. A CLERGYMAN, WHO DID NOT WISH TO BE NAMED, CLAIMED THAT AT LEAST 13 OF THE CHURCH’S 42 BISHOPS WERE ALSO GAY, ALTHOUGH THEY HAVE NOT PUBLICLY ACKNOWLEDGED . “GAY PEOPLE HAVE VERY OFTEN A HEIGHTENED SENSIVY TO THGS OF BETY AND SPIRUALY,” CA SUGGTED. “THERE ARE AN AWFUL LOT OF GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH.”FOR GENERATNS, GAY PRITS WERE ACCEPTED TO THE CHURCH AS LONG AS THEY WERE WILLG TO KEEP QUIET ABOUT . THIS “WOOLLY” APPROACH TO RELIG DOCTRE HAS BEEN SORELY TTED RECENT YEARS WH THE CHURCH DIVID OVER FEMALE BISHOPS AND GAY MARRIAGE. CONONTED BY THE BRISH ERNMENT’S TRODUCTN OF GAY MARRIAGE, THE CHURCH WAS SUDNLY FACED WH A DILEMMA: ABOUT A THIRD OF BRISH WEDDGS ARE CURRENTLY HELD CHURCH, LEAVG THE BISHOPS TO CI WHETHER THEY WOULD OPEN THEIR DOORS TO A NEW SET OF MARRIAG.THE MOST SENR CLERGYMAN THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, JT WELBY, THE ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY, ACKNOWLEDGED THAT THE ATTEMPT TO UPHOLD TRADNAL TEACHGS WAS BEG PROBLEMATIC. “THERE IS A GREAT FEAR THAT OUR CISNS WILL LEAD TO THE REJECTN OF LGBT PEOPLE, TO IRRELEVANCE A CHANGG SOCIETY, TO BEHAVR THAT MANY SEE AK TO RACISM,” HE SAID.DPE HIS WARNGS, THE HOE OF BISHOPS ISSUED AN UNEXPECTEDLY STRGENT STATEMENT ON VALENTE’S DAY. THERE WOULD BE NO SAME-SEX WEDDGS CHURCH, NO PRAYER CEREMONI—UNLS THEY CLUD A REPRIMAND FOR THE UPLE—AND ABSOLUTELY NO GAY CLERGY WERE ALLOWED TO MARRY.CONSERVATIVE GROUPS THE CHURCH WELED THE LG. THE REV. ANDREW SYM, EXECUTIVE SECRETARY OF ANGLIN MASTREAM, SAID: “THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT SAME-SEX SEXUAL ACTIVY IS WRONG.”HE WAS AMONG THOSE BEECHG CA TO ACCEPT THE WORD OF HIS SUPERRS. “IN ANY ANIZATN IF PEOPLE GO AGAST WHAT THEIR LEARS SAY ’S GOG TO E DIFFICULTI. THERE IS A NVERSATN GOG ON SI THE CHURCH ABOUT THIS AND MR. CA PRUMABLY FEELS THAT HE WANTS TO PRE-EMPT THAT NVERSATN. HE THKS HE HAS THE RIGHT TO OVERTURN CENTURI OF CHRISTIAN TEACHG JT ON HIS OWN THORY,” HE TOLD THE DAILY BEAST. “THE VAST MAJORY OF CHRISTIANS AROUND THE WORLD HAVE ALWAYS BELIEVED THAT MARRIAGE IS BETWEEN A MAN AND A WOMAN. WE’VE GOT A WTERN CULTURE THAT HAS CID TO CHANGE THIS THE LAST FEW YEARS; ’S A SMALL NUMBER OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE TAKEN THIS VIEW SO MR. CA IS VERY MUCH THE MORY.”AT THE CENTER OF THIS MAELSTROM, ’S BS AS UAL FOR CA. THIS WEEK A MASSIVE REFURBISHMENT PROJECT BEGAN AT THE STUNNG RED-BRICK ST JAM’ CHURCH WT HAMPSTEAD, WHERE SERVIC WERE FIRST HELD 1880. HE HAS RAISED MORE THAN HALF A LN DOLLARS TO TRANSFORM THE CHURCH TO A Fé, CRèCHE AND THE FIRST CHURCH THE UNTRY TO HOE A MAJOR BRANCH OF THE POST OFFICE.THE CHAIRS, STATU AND RELIG INS, SOME OF WHICH DATE BACK TO THE 16TH CENTURY, WERE BEG HURRIEDLY PACKED AWAY; A PAIR OF J LAY ON THEIR BACKS ON THE DAIS.AT THE FAL SE MEETG BEFORE NSTCTN BEGAN, CA WAS A NO-NONSENSE MOOD. DRSED A RED BLAZER, HE REFED TO ACCEPT THE BUILRS’ APOLOGI FOR A ONE-WEEK LAY. “SERLY, LET’S NOT START SLIPPG AT THE FIRST MEETG,” HE SAID. AFTER A SPELL OF FUTILE RISTANCE OM THE NSTCTN TEAM AND PROJECT MANAGER, THEY WERE BACK ON SCHLE AND CA SAT BACK HIS CHAIR SATISFIED.“I’VE BEEN TOLD TO BUTTON MY LIP,” HE SAID, SG.HIS SCHEME TO RE-TEGRATE THE CHURCH BACK TO THE CENTER OF THIS URBAN MUNY HAS WON CA A LEGN OF ADMIRERS. “UNTIL STEPHEN AND I GOT ENGAGED I WAS SEEN AS A SORT OF MOL VIR FOR G UP WH THIS IA AND PHG THROUGH,” HE SAID. “BUT I’VE JT BEE A PROBLEM NOW.”HOPPG TO HIS RACG GREEN MI—“JT DON’T LL ME A TRENDY VIR”—HE MA HIS WAY TO THE NEXT APPOTMENT, A SCHOOL BOARD MEETG. “ALLOWG WOMEN PRITS WAS THE START OF ,” HE SAID ON THE WAY. “THE SAME APPROACH TO SCRIPTURE LEADS TO ACCEPTG THAT GAY PEOPLE ARE GAY PEOPLE. THE WISHY-WASHY MORAT THE MIDDLE ACCEPTED WOMEN BEE, ‘WELL, I’M MARRIED TO A WOMAN’ OR ‘ JT SEEMS LIKE THE RIGHT THG TO DO’ BUT THEY HADN’T THOUGHT ABOUT THE THEOLOGIL IMPLITNS.”WHEN THE HOE OF BISHOPS MA S LG, CA WAS APPALLED. “IT MAK LOOK LIKE NEANRTHALS QUE ANKLY. WE LOOK LIKE RACISTS,” HE SAID, AS HE WEAVED AND OUT OF THE BY LONDON TRAFFIC.EACH CHURCH WH THE ANGLIN COMMUNN, WHICH NTU TO SPREAD AND GROW OM S ROOTS THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, HAS TAKEN S OWN VIEW ON GAY MARRIAGE. GENE ROBSON BEME THE FIRST OPENLY GAY CLERGYMAN TO BE NSECRATED AS A BISHOP THE U.S. EPISPAL CHURCH 2003, WHILE SOME OF THE AIN CHURCH HAVE TAKEN CREASGLY NSERVATIVE STEPS.“THE UGANDAN CHURCH HAS JT ANNOUNCED THAT ’S GOG TO START PERFORMG EXORCISMS ON PEOPLE TO CURE THEM OM BEG GAY,” HE SAID. “ONE WOULD HOPE, ALL CHRISTIAN HONTY, THAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND WOULD SPEAK OUT. THERE’S A SORT OF STRANGE REVERSE-LONIALISM WHERE THE BISHOPS THE WT DON’T FEEL EE TO CRICIZE THE AIN BISHOPS, AND IF WE DO THE AINS ACCE OF LONIALISM, WELL ACTUALLY NO, YOU’RE JT PLA WRONG AND YOU’RE DOG BAD THGS. THEY’RE ALL A B NSERVATIVE AND NASTY.”FRED PHELPS, WHO DIED LAST WEEK, WAS ANOTHER CHURCHMAN WH UNFAVORABLE VIEWS ON HOMOSEXUALY. “MAY HE RT PEACE,” CA SAID. “I THK HE WAS A VERY SAD AND RATHER PATHETIC PERSON REALLY, I TAKE NO PLEASURE ANY MAN’S ATH I JT HOPE HE NOW SE THE ERROR OF THE WAY HE’D BEEN BEHAVG. IF WE BELIEVE HEAVEN AND FIVENS WHEN HE GETS THERE HE’LL BE FOR A TERRIBLE SHOCK.”CA DID NOT TEND TO BEE A E CéLèBRE. HE PROPOSED TO FORSHEW ON FEBARY 14TH, THE SAME DAY THAT THE BISHOPS WERE CIDG TO CURTAIL THE CLERGY’S ACCS TO BRA’S NEW GAY MARRIAGE LAWS. “THE BISHOPS MA AN ISSUE OF , NOT ME,” HE SAID.FORSHEW, AN IT DIRECTOR AND ATHEIST, SAID HE WAS TERRIFIED THAT HIS PARTNER’S OPENNS ULD BRG A PREMATURE END TO HIS LIFE’S WORK. “I FD HIS BRAVERY EXTRAORDARY,” HE SAID. “IF PUNIVE ACTN WAS TAKEN BY THE CHURCH WOULD BE VERY PAFUL AND EXTREMELY TRMATIC FOR HIM.”CA’S PLACE HISTORY WAS SECURED OVER A STEAK DNER OKED AT HOME ON VALENTE’S DAY: “I MA STEPHEN’S FAVORE MEAL AND AT THE END OF I SAID, ‘WILL YOU MARRY ME?’ AND HE SAID, ‘GET DOWN ON ONE KNEE,’ AND I GOT DOWN ON ONE KNEE AND SAID WILL YOU MARRY ME? AND HE SAID Y.” NI H

Ezra Sullivan om RomeOne argument often proposed by those the anti-“gay marriage” mp is that the practice is ntrary to “tradnal marriage. Homosexual activy is no way suable for procreatn. We do not ny the homosexual persons legimate sire for pannship and uny, but to engage homosexual behavr is not healthy any way.

PRIT TELLS CATHOLICS HOW TO RPOND WHEN ASKED IF THEY SUPPORT GAY ‘MARRIAGE’

Th we love the sner, but hate the s (activy) and say that gay marriage is an oxymoron and nnot be. If they were to tell me that they were gay, I would breathe a sigh and say, “Bls you, my children! ” Then I would ask them a nfintial tone of voice whether, spe of their gayns, they thought they would be able to nsummate the proposed marriage.