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- CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP
- GAY CANTERBURY
- PARTNERED GAY PRIT APPOTED AN OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
- ONLY LADS : EE GAY DATG & GAY CHAT SOCIAL WORK
- LGBTQ+ AFFIRMG COUNSELLORS CANTERBURY, ENG
- JT WELBY CRICIS UGANDAN CHURCH’S BACKG FOR ANTI-GAY LAW
- GAY CHRISTCHURCH, NEW ZEALAND | THE ESSENTIAL LGBT TRAVEL GUI!
- EXPLORE GAY ROOMS & RENTALS CANTERBURY
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP
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The bishop of Grantham has bee the first Church of England bishop to publicly clare that he is gay and a a move that will be embraced by mpaigners for equaly but is likely to alarm nservativ who fear the church is movg away om tradnal teachgs, Nicholas Chamberla said there had been no secret about his long-term - albe celibate - relatnship wh his a threat by a Sunday newspaper to reveal Chamberla’s sexualy had phed him to speak publicly. "People know I'm gay, but 's not the first thg I'd say to anyone.
Chamberla said he adhered to church guil, unr which gay clergy mt be celibate and are not permted to marry.
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For me, and for those who assisted his appotment, the fact that Bishop Nicholas is gay is not, and has never been, a termg factor.
PARTNERED GAY PRIT APPOTED AN OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
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Its tradnal belief that marriage is a unn of a man and a woman has e unr prsure om societal change and growg mands wh the church that gay people should be accepted and allowed to marry creasg number of prits have married or plan to marry same-sex partners fiance of the ban on gay clergy week, a group of C of E nservative evangelil parish held a meetg to discs their rponse to what they claimed to be the waterg-down of the thory of the Bible on the issue of sexualy, what was billed as potentially the first step towards a breakaway om the Anglin church. It followed Welby’s recent ments at a Christian ftival, when he said he was “nstantly nsumed wh horror” at the church’s treatment of lbians and gay men.
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Strsg that he did not want to bee known as “the gay bishop”, he said he hoped that the impact of his openns would be “that we n say the bishop of Grantham is gay and is gettg on wh his life and mistry”. I hope I’ll be able to be a standard-bearer for all people as a gay man.
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He cled to exprs objectns to the C of E’s celibacy le for gay clergy.
JT WELBY CRICIS UGANDAN CHURCH’S BACKG FOR ANTI-GAY LAW
”Rumours about gay bishops have circulated for s, but no servg bishop has ever before gone public about their sexualy. David Hope, the former archbishop of York, said that his sexualy was a "grey area" after beg threatened wh beg "outed"; and former archbishop of Canterbury Gee Carey claimed to have knowgly nsecrated two celibate gay men as bishops the 2003, the London Tim reported that the Right Rev Peter Wheatley, then the bishop of Edmonton, was gay and livg wh his partner.
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How has the gay muny veloped Canterbury over the last few s? We n this terview partly to mark the unfortunate ncellatn of Gay Pri this month bee of the ronavis crisis. What was like beg gay the var societal eras your life?
I didn’t feel affected by Sectn 28 [ the 1988 Lol Government Act, statg that uncils “shall not tentnally promote homosexualy or publish material wh the tentn of promotg homosexualy” and that teachg mataed schools should not promote “the acceptabily of homosexualy as a pretend fay relatnship”].
What was really important was when homosexualy [ the Sexual Offenc Act 1967] was crimalised. Anon: When I me here I knew of the Campaign for Homosexual Equaly [found 1969]. It is now known as the Ashford Gay Group, and serv East Kent.
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Alongsi this there is the ‘Kent gay men social group’ on Facebook where the clientele is generally rather younger.
And there is also the ‘East Kent – Gay Outdoor Club’ which meets on the last Sunday of every month at lotns chosen by members for a ne or ten e walk.
NM: What about Gay Pri?