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Contents:

• FATHER AND SON MARRY: A GAY MAN HAS MARRIED HIS ADOPTED SON IN PENNSYLVANIA
• PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH
• GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: A GAY MAN AND HIS FATHER S DOWN TO BATE SSM
• GLENN THOMPSON SPARKS FURY OVER GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER MARRIAGE VOTE
• MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI
• HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY
• FATHER’S TOAST AT SON’S GAY MARRIAGE SIGNALS CHANGE ATTU

FATHER AND SON MARRY: A GAY MAN HAS MARRIED HIS ADOPTED SON IN PENNSYLVANIA

The gay uple, who have lived as father and son for the past four years, tied the knot last week after a Pennsylvania urt allowed the men to dissolve their father-son relatnship so they uld live as married partners stead, The Inpennt is Bosee Jr, 79, legally adopted No Esposom 69, 2012.

At the time, gay marriage was not legal Pennsylvania, so the two men did somethg that was not unual before gay marriage beme legal: the olr man adopted the younger man as a procral move to protect themselv gay marriage beme legal, some gay partnerships one partner would adopt the other. This would offer some legal protectns for the uple, such as protectg herance or makg end-of-life Ronald and No, who have been a uple sce the 1970’s acrdg to Pk News, their stat as father and son ed them some trouble once gay marriage beme legal Pennsylvania. The two men would have to ntue livg as father and son, at least here to ntue and read And Son Marry: A Gay Man Has Married His Adopted Son In Pennsylvania is an article om: The Inquisr News.

LAWRENCE — Once scribed as “the richt bachelor Chigo, ” Robert Allerton was a gay man who 1922 began a romance wh a stunt 26 years his junr named John Gregg.

PASTOR LED SON’S GAY WEDDG, REVEALG FLT LE CHURCH

He wr that the years of Allerton’s life (1873-1964) span an “almost-century-long arc durg which homosexualy Amerin culture was first disvered, diagnosed, pathologized and persecuted.

GOP LAWMAKER ATTEND GAY SON'S WEDDG 3 DAYS AFTER VOTG AGAST SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

The choice the men ma to bee father and son is reflective of a moment which homosexualy had newly e to be nsired a problem that existed the Uned Stat.

“So they meet each other this era when homosexualy has gaed much more wispread attentn but all kds of bad ways, ” he said. “What’s more tertg is that over the urse of the 20th century, more and more gay people start to e out, be polil, be activists, advote for themselv … yet Robert and John have no part that. “Many advot the marriage equaly movement era ma the arguments that gay people should be allowed to marry, but the argument was generally bee ‘they’re jt like straight people.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: A GAY MAN AND HIS FATHER S DOWN TO BATE SSM

The actns that followed — a rebelln his ngregatn, a church trial, a ockg and then, last month, a restatement — have ma the Schaefers symbols of the nundm facg much of Amerin Christiany: How do relig doctre on homosexualy rpond to the longgs for spirualy and muny om ngregants and fay members who are gay? “His own church was sayg to him that, as a homosexual, you n’t go to heaven, ” Frank Schaefer said.

GLENN THOMPSON SPARKS FURY OVER GAY SON'S WEDDG DAYS AFTER MARRIAGE VOTE

’ ”In a seri of recent terviews, by telephone and Washgton, where they attend a gay pri event wh Print Obama at the Whe Hoe, father and son scribed their separate and shared cris of love and fah, which began 2001 when Tim, then high school, acknowledged to his parents that he was, now 52, had grown up a nservative Baptist church Wt Germany, believg homosexualy was a s, but had quietly bee more acceptg.

Tim, now 30, had grown up his father’s nservative Uned Methodist church Pennsylvania, beg prsed and ntemplatg throwg himself off the roof of a parsonage when he realized he was gay.

MOVG PORTRAS OF GAY FATHERS WH THEIR FAI ACROSS AMERI

“I didn’t want to be gay, and I didn’t want to go to hell. ”Frank Schaefer rells the moment Tim me out to his parents as “a stab through our heart, ” not bee Tim was gay, but bee he had been unsure he uld nfi them and had stggled private. ’ Gay marriage is a punishable offense, by trial and ockg, so I expected to be fired.

HOW I ACCINTALLY FOUND OUT MY DAD IS GAY

He did not tell his ngregatn, but on Father’s Day 2008, he gave a sermon on unndnal love which he acknowledged that his son was gay. A few other misters Christian tradns that oppose same-sex marriage have ma siar choic recent months after learng that one or more of their children are gay.

Danny Cortez, announced that he was “gay-affirmg” after his son me out as gay; the Southern Baptist Conventn has not yet cid whether to rpond. Ogletree, a Uned Methodist mister who is a former an of the Yale Divy School, officiated at the weddg of his gay son.

The nomatn is divid over sexualy issu, and although has l that ban the ordatn of “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” and the celebratn of same-sex marriag, hundreds of clergy have said they are willg to officiate at the ceremoni vlatn of church law, and 36 who blsed a same-sex weddg to show support for Frank Schaefer now face a disciplary procs, more than 600 ngregatns have clared that they wele people of every sexual orientatn, and several bishops have challenged the church’s teachg, cludg one California who offered Frank Schaefer a job the day after he was Frank and Tim Schaefer are remtg to their relatnship wh the Uned Methodist Church, or at least wh Christiany. Frank Schaefer, who has three gay children and a straight son, has bee a sought-after speaker on gay rights and an advote for change; a church appeals panel orred him restated as a mister last month, and he has accepted a church posn misterg to the universy muny Santa Barbara, Calif. And Tim Schaefer, who rumed attendg Uned Methodist Church servic after disverg that his lol ngregatn Hull, Mass., was not only welg of gays but was also led by an openly gay pastor, has cid he wants to follow his father to mistry.

FATHER’S TOAST AT SON’S GAY MARRIAGE SIGNALS CHANGE ATTU

“The only thg that ma me qutn that was that I thought, as a gay person, I will never be accepted as a pastor, and I was not gog to be one of those people who nied what I was, remaed celibate or pretend to be a heterosexual marriage.

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 1 of the New York edn wh the headle: Pastor Led Son’s Gay Weddg, Revealg Flt Le Church. A Republin lawmaker attend his gay son’s weddg jt three days after jog the majory of his GOP lleagu votg agast a Hoe bill that would dify feral protectns for same-sex gay son of Rep. One of five Republin senators who has already nfirmed a y vote on the bill is Rob Portman of Oh, who clared his support for same-sex marriage 2013 after his son me out as gay.

Posted Monday 9 Oct 2017 at 7:02pmMon 9 Oct 2017 at 7:02pm, updated Monday 13 Jun 2022 at 12:14amMon 13 Jun 2022 at 12:14amRsell is gay and his father Harold oppos same-sex marriage. Growg up, I was a tomboy — or what Larry David would later ll “pre-gay. And while my father was anx when I first me out as gay at 19, I have only ever felt supported by him.