ELCA Lutherans elect first openly gay bishop

Contents:

• UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'
• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
• METHODIST HIGH COURT REJECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP’S CONSECRATN
• WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP
• ELCA LUTHERANS ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP
• EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO RETIRE
• FIRST OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP TALKS ABOUT PRI MONTH: "IT V OTHERS, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, TO BE MORE THENTIC"
• FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP TO LEAD THE EPISPAL DCE OF MISSOURI WH HOPE AND VISN
• FIRST OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP TALKS ABOUT PRI MONTH: “IT V OTHERS, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, TO BE MORE THENTIC”
• GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH
• FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP, WHOSE ELECTN CSED A STIR, TO DIVORCE
• SYNONYMS FOR OPENLY GAY

UNED METHODIST CHURCH BODY ELECTS OPENLY GAY BISHOP VLATN OF S L: 'INMAT NNG THE ASYLUM'

A regnal body of the Uned Methodist Church (UMC) voted to elect the nomatn's first openly gay Black bishop last week vlatn of s l prohibg the ordatn of "self-avowed practicg homosexuals.

Her ordatn was emed valid by the Uned Methodist Judicial Council 2017, but she remas her CHURCH OF ENGLAND OFFICIALS ENDORSE GAY MARRIAGE: ‘RANK HERESY’The UMC, which is the third-largt Prottant nomatn the U. Bishop Karen Oliveto, the UMC's first openly gay bishop, speaks at Iliff School of Theology, on April 26, 2017, Denver, Colorado. "Several nservative members of the Methodist clergy told Fox News Digal June that far om settlg the issue, however, the 2019 vote was disregard by many liberal lears wh the UMC who cid to rema the nomatn while missng openly gay clergy and officiatg same-sex weddgs Lomperis of the Instute on Relign & Democracy, who has served as a UMC General Conference legate, told The Christian Post that Bridgeforth's promotn exhibs "further direct fiance of the UMC’s official l, which is creasgly beg normalized.

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THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH

This requirement utterly means gay relatnships.

METHODIST HIGH COURT REJECTS FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP’S CONSECRATN

I me out as gay 2014 and still rry the srs. One major reason is the current climate around gay clergy.

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WTERN JURISDICTN ELECTS OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP

AdvertisementSKIP Zalubowski/Associated PrsApril 28, 2017The Uned Methodist Church’s hight urt has led that the nsecratn of s first openly gay bishop vlated church law, poundg a bter rift over homosexualy that has brought the 13-ln-member nomatn to the brk of a 6-to-3 vote ma public on Friday, the church’s Judicial Council found that a married lbian bishop and those who nsecrated her were vlatn of their “mment to abi by and uphold the church’s fn of marriage and stance on homosexualy. “It is not lawful for the College of Bishops of any jurisdictnal or central nference to nsecrate a self-avowed practicg homosexual bishop. ”The Judicial Council also cid, separate lgs, that the New York and Illois regns mt ask ndidat for the mistry about their sexualy and le out those who are gay “or any other way vlatg the church’s standards on marriage and sexualy.

Alex da Silva Souto, who is openly gay and serv as senr pastor at New Milford Uned Methodist Church Connecticut, part of the New York regn. ”Bishop Oliveto was elected by the church’s Wtern Jurisdictn last summer and assigned to oversee about 400 ngregatns Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah and electn was immediately challenged by the church’s South Central Jurisdictn, which argued that the cisn vlated the church’s ban on ordag gay Oliveto did not rpond to a phone msage requtg an terview. ” While was “disappotg and disturbg” that Bishop Oliveto’s nsecratn was found to be vlatn of church law, he said, “she remas a bishop of the church” for said that the bishops of the Wtern Jurisdictn, who were gatherg Dallas advance of a larger meetg of Methodist bishops, would meet on Saturday to asss the cisn and untry’s third-largt relig nomatn, after the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Conventn, the Uned Methodist Church adopted language 1972 clarg that “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” may not be ordaed bee “the practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

Louis Febary 2019, would be dited to rolvg the church’s divisns over sexualy Judicial Council heard arguments Bishop Oliveto’s se on Tuday at a hotel Newark as more than 150 gay Methodist clergy and their supporters held a prayer vigil nearby and later celebrated munn the hearg is now up to the College of Bishops her own Wtern Jurisdictn — who have supported her until now — to ci her future by followg the church’s due Bce R.

ELCA LUTHERANS ELECT FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP

), have cid to allow same-sex marriage and openly gay misters.

EPISPAL CHURCH ORDAS 2ND OPENLY GAY BISHOP

A majory of legat om the Uned Stat have favored eher overturng the ban on ordag gay people or fdg a promise to allow same-sex marriag and gay clergy, but they have been outnumbered by the bed forc of the Ain and Asian legat and nservative Amerins, who make up the church’s evangelil DuBose/Uned Methodist News ServiceIn recent years, more and more Methodist misters have flouted the nomatn’s rtrictns and performed same-sex weddgs.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP TO RETIRE

In addn, more than 150 have publicly e out as gay, riskg their posns if there is a churchwi crackdown, acrdg to the Uned Methodist Queer Clergy Cc, an advocy and support group. The uc says knows of another 30 Methodist clergy who are gay but have chosen for now not to reveal their sexual Oliveto, a longtime lear the church’s gay advocy groups, was the first woman to serve as senr pastor of one of the nomatn’s 100 largt church, Gli Memorial Uned Methodist Church San Francis.

Keh Boyette, a pastor Virgia and a lawyer who was reprentg the South Central Jurisdictn, argued that Bishop Oliveto’s electn openly vlated l about homosexualy the church’s Book of an terview late Friday, shortly before the uncil’s lg was ma public, Mr. “The Wtern Jurisdictn’s cisn to elect an openly gay bishop was ntrary to the Disciple of the Uned Methodist Church, and therefore their act electg that person was null, void and of no effect, ” he said.

FIRST OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP TALKS ABOUT PRI MONTH: "IT V OTHERS, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, TO BE MORE THENTIC"

”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 18 of the New York edn wh the headle: Methodist High Court Rejects Consecratn of First Openly Gay Bishop. Frank Wulf, another openly gay ndidate, had whdrawn earlier. Bishop Melv Talbert, retired om the Wtern Jurisdictn, said he wasn’t sure he would ever live to see the day when the church would elect an openly gay bishop.

The Book of Disciple, the church's lawbook, bans "self-avowed practicg homosexuals" om ordatn, but many gay clergy me out before General Conference 2016.

FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP TO LEAD THE EPISPAL DCE OF MISSOURI WH HOPE AND VISN

Rob Renoe, print of Good News, an unofficial evangelil Uned Methodist anizatn that upholds the church’s current stance on homosexualy issu, said the electn and other actns by annual nference this summer ignored the Council of Bishops' proposal for a missn to exame all church law alg wh human sexualy. “Instead, the nferenc have moved ahead wh legislative enactments pledgg non-nformy wh the Book of Disciple, culmatg the electn of a practicg homosexual as bishop, ” said Renoe.

“I want to see gay and lbian people walk eely, ” he said.

William Lawrence — former print of the Judicial Council, the church’s top urt — said before Oliveto was elected that if an openly gay person were elected bishop, anyone the nomatn uld file a plat. Rencilg Mistri Network, an unofficial Uned Methodist anizatn that advot for LGBTQ (lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer) “celebrat wh great joy the electn of the first openly lbian bishop The Uned Methodist Church. “This is an historic moment the movement of Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgenr and Queer (LGBTQ) persons for spirual and civil equaly both the church and the public square, ” the group said a statement.

FIRST OPENLY GAY UNED METHODIST BISHOP TALKS ABOUT PRI MONTH: “IT V OTHERS, NO MATTER WHO THEY ARE, TO BE MORE THENTIC”

(RNS) The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri has elected s first openly gay bishop, the Rev. Guy Erw, to oversee church Southern California, four years after the church allowed openly gay men and lbians to serve as clergy.

The Evangelil Lutheran Church Ameri has elected s first openly gay bishop, the Rev. Followg a wir trend wh other male Prottant nomatns to appot gays and lbians to learship posns, the ELCA’s five-unty Southwt California Synod elected Erw on Friday (May 31) to a six-year term. The ELCA’s electn of Erw did not e as a surprise to many observers, as the provisn for an openly gay lear has been place for four years now.

Gene Robson, an openly gay prit, as bishop a ago. The Epispal Church has nsecrated a woman as s send openly gay bishop, seven years after stirrg lgerg ntroversy by ordag a man to a siar Rev. It also mak her one of the first two female bishops the Dce of Los Angel' 114-year Epispal Church, which is the Anglin body the Uned Stat, ed turmoil the church 2003 by nsecratg the first openly gay bishop, V.

GAY BISHOP, WHOSE NOMATN SPL CHURCH YEARS AGO, VISS FALLS CHURCH

Jt before the ceremony began, a man stood, shouted about the need to repent and held up a sign that read "Do not be ceived, homosexuals will not her the kgdom of God.

FIRST OPENLY GAY EPISPAL BISHOP, WHOSE ELECTN CSED A STIR, TO DIVORCE

2004, Anglin lears asked the Epispal Church for a moratorium on electg another gay bishop while they tried to prevent a permanent break the the requt was ma, some Epispal gay prits have been nomated for bishop, but none was elected before Glasspool. Church's top policy makg body, affirmed that gay and lbian prits were eligible to bee bishops. Glasspool, 56, an adviser, or non, for eight years to the Dce of Maryland's bishop, said an say on the Los Angel dce Web se that she had an "tense stggle" while llege wh her sexualy and the ll to bee a did not speak Saturday, but told a gatherg of media Friday that the church's willgns to orda women and gays shows a mment that go beyond mere clive language.

Bridgeforth is the first openly gay Ain-Amerin man to be elected bishop. Regnal meetgs this month that clud the electn of s send openly gay bishop. ”They also passed non-bdg measur askg anyone to whdraw om learship rol if they're planng to leave the nomatn soon — a tegory that almost entirely clus nservativ movg toward the nomatn still officially bans same-sex marriage and the ordatn of any “self-avowed, practicg homosexual, ” and only a legislative gatherg lled the General Conference n change that.

He is the first openly gay Ain-Amerin man to be elected bishop. A vote by a 2019 General Conference was the latt of several recent s that rerced the church's ban on gay clergy and marriage.

SYNONYMS FOR OPENLY GAY

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFirst Openly Gay Epispal Bishop to RetireNov. Gene Robson, whose nsecratn as the first openly gay bishop the Epispal Church set off a historic rift the global Anglin Communn, announced to his New Hampshire dce on Saturday that he tend to step plans to retire January 2013 after ne years as bishop, to give the dce enough time to elect a new bishop and get the approval of the natnal church, a procs that n take two years. His stat as a symbol the ternatnal gay rights movement means that after he steps down, he will have no shortage of platforms om which to preach his msage that God bls gay relatnships too.

It cracked open a longstandg divi between theologil liberals and nservativ both the Epispal Church and s parent body, the Anglin Communn — those church affiliated wh the Church of England more than 160 2003, the Communn’s lears have labored to save om outright schism, not jt over homosexualy, but also over female bishops and Curry/Agence France-Prse — Getty ImagThe current strategy, phed by the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev.

Bishop Robson is no longer the only openly gay bishop the Epispal Church. In his rignatn speech New Hampshire, Bishop Robson said: “This is the one place on earth where I am not ‘the gay bishop. ”A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 32 of the New York edn wh the headle: First Openly Gay Epispal Bishop to Retire 2013.