CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — 'The issue of gay people and their rights is equivalent a stggle our time to the one over race,' said Michael Curry, pridg bishop of the Epispal Church.
Contents:
- EPISPAL BISHOP FACG FIGHT OVER ELECTN PROMIS TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF NSECRATED
- ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
- Q&A: GAY MARRIAGE AND THE EPISPAL CHURCH
EPISPAL BISHOP FACG FIGHT OVER ELECTN PROMIS TO ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF NSECRATED
Wh an timated 2.3 ln members, the Epispal Church is open and welg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny. * episcopal church statement on gay marriage *
Unlike the Worldwi Anglin Communn, of which is a part, the Epispal Church do not nmn homosexualy.
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. However, the church had already nsecrated s first openly gay bishop 2003. Max Ludo, who prevly exprsed anti-gay views, has revealed a rift the church, wh some sayg the move was a slap the face to LGBTQ Epispalians.
“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.
ALL 4 NY EPISPAL BISHOP NDIDAT WILL ALLOW GAY MARRIAGE IF ELECTED
* episcopal church statement on gay marriage *
The nstutns and nons of some dc still officially ban gay clergy – unls celibate – and same-sex marriag, cludg Albany, Dallas and Central Florida. 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.
Gay Clark Jenngs durg the webar. CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — The prejudice felt by gay people over same-sex marriage is the new racism, acrdg to the head of the Epispal Church of the Uned Stat.
2), said that the Uned Stat, “the issue of gay people and their rights is equivalent a stggle our time to the one over race.
Q&A: GAY MARRIAGE AND THE EPISPAL CHURCH
” He went on to say all Christians the Uned Stat need to stand solidary wh gay people over same-sex marriage. In rponse to the amendment, bishops om the Global South announced they would refe Holy Communn om bishops wh gay partners and om those who support same-sex marriage.
The pot-unterpot protts over the past week have unrsred the growg divisns between the bishops the Wt who support gay marriage and those the Global South who oppose — and the creasgly tenuo operatn that Welby, as archbishop of Canterbury, has fed. 10 rolutn, which rejects homosexualy as patible wh Scripture, had not been rcd. For some supporters of gay unns, the lack of a cisn favor of same-sex marriage was a blow.
That changed last week when the church voted to force all Epispal church to allow gay and lbian upl to “marry” the church.