Wh an timated 2.3 ln members, the Epispal Church is open and welg of the lbian, gay, bisexual, transgenr and queer muny.
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- EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY
- EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE
EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY
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In 1976, both the Hoe of Deputi and Hoe of Bishops voted for a fully clive Epispal Church, statg, “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the church. SocietyFeatureDecember 29, 2008Epispal Church Spls Over Gay EqualyThe Epispal Church’s promotn of an openly gay clergyman has created a ser rift wh the relig muny, threateng the future of the nomatn.
Rick Warren to give the gural nvotn speech has prompted an outcry om progrsiv and gay activists, all of whom who have nounced Warren’s antigay rhetoric and role the passage of Proposn 8. Followg a requt om the Lambeth Commissn, the Epispalian Church published a 135-page document etled “To Set Our Hope Christ, ” which tailed how the church had e to clu homosexuals as equal members of the ngregatn.
Prentg both a theologil and legislative argument for gay and lbian equaly, the document clus a long list of missn fdgs and refully word rolutns statg repeatedly how the Epispal Church is “not of one md” on matters of sexualy but is mted to “promot[g] the ntu[ed] e of dialogue. ” There’s the 1976 Commissn on Human Affairs assertg that “homosexual persons are children of God, who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons on love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the Church, ” or the creatn of a morately liberal gui on sexualy the 1980s.
EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE
The majory of the Amerin Epispal Church (93 dc) already allows gay marriage their church. This vote affects eight dc that did not allow for relig ceremoni to be nducted si their sanctuari. * episcopal church on gays *
Aga, the Epispal learship looked to fd a middle way: while “not givg an opn on the moraly of same-genr relatnships, ” refed to nvict on the grounds that “there is no re doctre prohibg the ordatn of a non-celibate homosexual person livg a fahful and mted sexual relatnship, ” and that “the Anglin tradn has enuraged theologil diversy. ” Unable to nvce nservativ wh the church of the basic equaly between heterosexual and homosexual relatnships, and unwillg to abandon s tradn of pluraly and legislative mocracy, the Epispal Church found self nonted by an irrencilable crisis spe s many efforts to avoid one.