Why are so many of the clergy gay? - Anglin Mastream

Contents:

• CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'
• WHAT’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND A PRIT? I FEEL LIKE A SEND-CLASS CIZEN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?
• SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE
• EXPLAED: WHAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS CID ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIPS
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'

Church of England prits will be permted to bls the civil marriag of same-sex upl a profound shift the church’s stance on homosexualy after a historic vote by s erng first blsgs for gay upl uld happen this summer. ”Nigel Pietroni, the chair of the Campaign for Equal Marriage the C of E, said the cisn “falls short of what we ultimately believe is the only oute for radil cln – equal marriage for all people”, but was “a small step forward” gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The offer of blsgs to same-sex partners is an sult.

A leadg historian has lled for the Church of England to accept gay partnerships among s clergy, stead of enuragg them to hi their sexualy or rema celibate. Diarmaid MacCulloch, profsor of the history of the church at the Universy of Oxford and prenter of BBC4's A History of Christiany, wr the Guardian that while there has been a revolutn attus towards gay people the UK, "the church has jt stuck s fgers s ears and chanted la-la-la".

WHAT’S LIKE TO BE GAY AND A PRIT? I FEEL LIKE A SEND-CLASS CIZEN THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

"His ments e nearly a week after was revealed that Jefey John, the most senr openly gay cleric the church, was nsirg sug his employers for discrimatn.

MacCulloch argu that "the Anglin munn has … imposed pulsory celibacy on a large sectn of s clergy: those who regnise they are predomantly gay sexual orientatn".

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

He also cricis the selectn procs for new prits, which he says is obssed wh the sexualy of ndidat and "vot an ordate amount of time to quizzg them about " the moment the church's posn is that there is no bar to gay people assumg cleril office, even if they are civil partnerships, wh the ccial proviso that they mt not be sexually active.

"Reverend Rod Thomas, chair of the nservative group Reform, said the appotment of a gay bishop England would lead to divisn the church as had done the US. "Explag the church's abily to e to terms wh the issue of gay clergy, MacCulloch poted to a crisis of masculy.

"It's tertg that female homosexualy don't tert the clergy so much. It's male homosexualy and that's bee 's still a very male-domated stutn. They - cludg those bishops who are secretly gay – have been wed to silence by threats om those who oppose same-sex marriage.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

Image source, Getty ImagThe Church of England will not be whdrawg guidance that said sex is only for "heterosexual married upl" the archbishops of Canterbury and York are "very sorry and regnise the divisn and hurt" last week's statement Welby and John Sentamu say the statement "jeopardised tst" me ahead of a study by the Church to human sexualy, due to be published later this Irw, an LGBT Christian, felt "really disheartened and flated" when the guidance was issued by the Church of England last said sex gay or straight civil partnerships "falls short of God's purpose for human begs".

"People that are gay get qutned all the time - 'If you're gay then you mt be sng' - but people don't generally ask me that bee they assume that I'm followg the 'rrect' way.

"It still ss that marriage should be between a man and a woman and the only thg that's new is that this is about civil partnerships, " she believ the statement is "too blunt" and neglects the work that's really gog on towards liberatg homosexualy the Church. The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage.

GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND

As of 2020, the most recent year for which there is data, more than 42, 000 gay upl England and Wal had tied the knot. ) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012. It end Sectn 28, which prevented schools and lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” and troduced civil partnerships.

WHY ARE SO MANY OF THE CLERGY GAY?

“I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative. Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours. Almost half of Brons now say they know a married gay uple.

Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”. Though Bra was not the first to legalise , 19 other untri have sce given gay marriage their blsg. But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag.

SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND

A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl.

Currently bans gay weddgs church, allows prayers of support to same sex upl followg a civil partnership or marriage and allows clergy to enter a civil partnership.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE

In a 2017 terview, when asked for his views on “gay sex”, the Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby, said: “I am havg to stggle to be fahful to the tradn, fahful to the scripture, to unrstand what the ll and will of God is the 21st century and to rpond appropriately wh an answer for all people … that vers both sis of the argument. The 1998 Lambeth Conference (a gatherg of bishops om the worldwi provc of the Anglin Communn) passed a rolutn characterisg “homosexual practice as patible wh Scripture”. This rolutn is not bdg on any of the Anglin church worldwi, and some of them have gone on to orda gay clergy and/or to celebrate same-sex marriag.

What is the suatn wh gay clergy?

EXPLAED: WHAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS CID ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIPS

In 2017, Revd Andrew Forhew-Ca, a vir London who married his hband 2015, rigned om his post cg the prsure of workg for an “stutnally homophobic anisatn”.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE

This did not change the Church of England’s teachg on marriage, but did ll for opposn to homophobia. Gay clergy are permted to be relatnships so long as they are rights mpaigners say that some parish are unwelg or hostile, and some s there has been emotnal or spirual bishops’ move me as a three-year missn to exame issu of sexualy and inty proposed further “engagement and learng” by parish. Fourteen Church of England clergy same-sex marriag have lled on bishops to do more to clu gay people the life of the a letter to the Sunday Tim, they said they wanted to eventually see gay upl allowed to marry Church.

Some of the clergy signg the letter were revealg they were gay and married for the first time letter after Bishop Nicholas Chamberla said on Friday he was gay and a relatnship.

Publitn the n-up to a College of Bishops meetg om 12 to 15 September which will discs issu of epispal mistry and clergy said bishops should be bold, and allow gay people to "celebrate whout fear and openns", though they said that now is not yet the time to change the church's official unrstandg of letter reads: "But many our parish have already ma that move and is time to rpect that a diversy of theology wh the Church now exists and that there is more than one unrstandg of what a fahful Christian may believe on the issu.