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OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

Holger Allmenroer is a Catholic prit who is also openly gay. He supports gay and lbian people, divorce and those who have remarried. Tradnalists may fd him alienatg but his mass are well attend. Is he the future of the Church? * openly gay priest *

And so this ll for the civil regnn and protectn of gay civil unns, 's really an affirmatn of the humany of gay and lbian persons - that he's sayg that bee gay and lbian persons are human begs, that society, that the state, that ernments have an obligatn and a duty to protect their basic human Do extendg the right to a civil unn and acknowledgg that LGBTQ people should be allowed to have a partner their life through a civil unn and a fay - do that mean children?

Now, may seem to be a semantic difference, but I thk what the pope is sayg is that he is not opposed to the legal regnn of fay life and the right for gay and lbian persons to raise and have As a gay Catholic yourself, I mean, as a man of fah, as a Catholic, is somehow ls signifint, I would image, a civil unn than beg able to be married the church?

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I personally - and I know many others, gay and lbian persons and those who are alli and who love - would want the church to be able to one day regnize the lovg mments of LGBTQ persons the sacrament of marriage. And what the pope is dog wh this kd of claratn - he's clearly puttg the Catholic Church on the si of agast the crimalizatn of behavr and favor of protectg the human digny of gay and lbian But help me unrstand this bee 's my unrstandg that the Catholic Church still nsirs homosexualy to be a s, not somethg that should be enuraged a liftyle.

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In this untry, there have been efforts to say that Catholics, Catholic stutns n't be volved or the adoptn - or allowg gay and lbian parents to adopt children.

FRANCISNS GERMANY ELECT OPENLY GAY PRIT AS NEW SUPERR

Father McNeill was a champn of gay rights long before the Catholic church opened the issue to bate, and he was expelled om his orr as a rult. * openly gay priest *

And I thk that this really giv a different lens for that kd of nversatn that go on the Catholic Church that we're basilly sayg that, no, gay and lbian persons n, you know, have a right to a fay. That's why he speaks up for those who are often shut out of the Catholic Church: gay and lbian people, trans people, remarried divorce.

Recently, the bate about homosexualy the Church was reigned when prits a number of German parish rried out blsgs of same-sex unns.

Ian Ker, one of the foremost Newman scholars, says that the relatnship was not homosexual bee, by all acunts, the two were celibate. Of urse, the two men uld be gay and have had a strong affectnate and timate relatnship whout beg sexually active, jt as many gay men the prithood and relig life today mata their promis and vows of celibacy. Defendg Newman’s non-homosexualy by sayg that the prit was affectnate relatnships wh both men and women tri to expla away Newman’s love for St.

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While some people thk that homophobia agast gay men om a revulsn about male sex acts, I thk that for many people the more horrifyg and sndalo phenomenon is men beg emotnally sensive, tenr, and affectnate wh one another.

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Of urse, such gentle and timate rpons by men is only a problem if one suffers om tense homophobia or believ the enforcement of strict genr expectatns that men should not be emotnal and rg toward one another. ” In the 21st century world, there is an unspoken expectatn afoot that to be “openly gay” means havg ma some very public statements about one’s orientatn and inty.

JOHN MCNEILL, PRIT WHO PHED CATHOLIC CHURCH TO WELE GAYS, DI AT 90

Yet, I thk a good se n be ma for Newman beg the “first openly gay” Catholic sat for the simple reason that we know so much more about him and his relatnship than we do about the other exampl. The 300-member Francisn provce of Sat Elisabeth Germany has elected as s new superr Father Mark Fuhrmann, who a few weeks ago publicly me out as homosexual. In an terview wh MK-Onle, the official news webse of the Archdce of Munich and Freisg, Fuhrmann explaed why he went public wh his homosexualy.

Asked about the fact that his Francisn brothers knew of his homosexualy at the time of his electn, the new German superr said that " was very good for me to know that this is very posive for the brothers. Catholic teachg on homosexualy is summarized sectns 2357, 2358, and 2359 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church.

As the techism explas, “Tradn has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred and this clatn, which is objectively disorred, nstut for most of them a trial. The techism stat, “Basg self on Sacred Scripture, which prents homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, tradn has always clared that homosexual acts are trsilly disorred.

‘IT IS NOT A CLOSET. IT IS A CAGE.’ GAY CATHOLIC PRITS SPEAK OUT

In an terview wh MK-Onle, the official news webse of the Archdce of Munich and Freisg, Father Fuhrmann explaed why he went public wh his homosexualy.

Asked about the fact that his Francisn brothers knew of his homosexualy at the time of his electn, the new German superr said that “ was very good for me to know that this is very posive for the brothers. Spong, head of the Epispal Dce of Newark, ordaed an openly gay man as a prit yterday, over the strong protts of tradnalist Epispal Church bishops and members who argued that the ordatn would disregard Christian moral ordatn of the Rev. Williams's ordatn had been vigoroly opposed by a group of six bishops, who argued that vlated Scripture and a 1979 church rolutn agast ordag ''practicg homosexuals.

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Williams, 34 years old, has lived wh a male pann for the last four years and sce June has head a special mistry for gay and lbian parishners at All pann, Jam Skelly, 39, a hospal admistrator and member of the All Sats choir, figured promently yterday's ceremony as one of several prenters of the ndidate for prithood and as a Spong, 58, one of the church's most ntroversial lears, has enraged nservativ the past by urgg the church to give s blsg to homosexual and other unmarried upl. The Synod was anized last June around objectns to what nsirs viatns om tradnal Christian teachgs, cludg the ordatn of Synod's prottg bishops argue that the ordatn of a sexually active unmarried person vlat a rolutn passed 1979 by the erng body of the Epispal Church, the General Conventn, which rejects non-celibate gay people and non-celibate sgle heterosexuals as prits.

MICHIGAN EPISPAL DCE WEL FIRST FEMALE, OPENLY GAY BISHOP

Although some church have reached out to them through special mistri, most will not allow avowed homosexuals who are sexually active to be ordaed some dividual bishops have ma such ordatns, and other homosexuals have openly clared their sexual preferenc after beg ordaed.

11 news release, the dce announced that would celebrate ''an unual and probably unique sacramental act by ordag an avowed, non-celibate gay man to the Epispal prithood.

Thompson, a spokman for the Synod argu that the ordatn vlat a church rolutn that stat part, ''It is not appropriate for this Church to orda a practicg homosexual or any person who is engaged heterosexual relatns outsi of marriage. ''The rolutn do not object to ordag any qualified homosexual or heterosexual who nforms to Christian moraly standards of ''marriage, maral fily and sexual chasty.

OPENLY GAY CATHOLIC PRIT DISCS POPE FRANCIS' APPEAL FOR LGBTQ PROTECTNS

Found the Oasis''There's nothg non law that forbids the ordatn of homosexuals, '' he Williams, a native of Abilene, Texas, is a 1985 graduate of the Epispal Divy School Cambridge, Mass.

In June 1988, he was ma a an the Dce of Newark and a year later he found the Oasis, a mistry that unsels gay and lbian dividuals and aniz tn programs about homosexualy. A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn 1, Page 54 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: OPENLY GAY PRIEST ORDAINED IN JERSEY.

Last November, he won the District 2 seat which serv East At and Dove Sprgs, by fewer than 100 vot over his opponent, a Lato cumbent, and beme the first openly gay board member.

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Michigan Epispal dce wel first female, openly gay bishop .

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