In Christ There Is No Gay or Straight?: Homosexualy and the Epispal Church on JSTOR

Contents:

• EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY
• ARE EPISPAL CHURCH GAY FRIENDLY
• EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE
• THE EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV RELIG WEDDGS FOR GAY UPL AFTER NTROVERSIAL BATE
• WHAT WILL FOLLOW EPISPALIAN VOTE FOR GAY CLERGY?
• EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE

EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY

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.

ARE EPISPAL CHURCH GAY FRIENDLY

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. After Gene Robson, an openly gay man wh a longterm partner, was elected Bishop of New Hampshire 2003, Anglin bishops om all over the world quickly cried the move. 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. 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.

EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE

” 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.

The church pris self on s clive nature, and many bishops have spoken out agast homophobia and advoted for LGBT Epispal Church has been a vol proponent of same-sex marriage sce 2003, when passed a rolutn supportg civil unns for gay upl.

THE EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV RELIG WEDDGS FOR GAY UPL AFTER NTROVERSIAL BATE

At first, the Epispal Church refed to allow gay people to bee members or serve learship rol, but over time has e to accept and even embrace lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people as full members. In addn to worshippg regularly church servic, Epispalians also participate special relig ruals, such as baptisms and some members of the Epispal Church believe that gay relatnships should be accepted, others view homosexualy as a s.

The church offers regular servic for both LGBT and straight worshippers, wel openly gay bishops, misters and ans, and provis a safe place for LGBT people to worship whout discrimatn. | Getty ImagThe four ndidat for bishop of an Epispal Church dce that recently garnered headl for refg to bls same-sex marriag have dited that they will allow the Epispal Dce of Albany has been whout a bishop sce the rignatn 2021 of William Love, who had issued an open letter 2020 refg to enforce a nomatnal le requirg all dc to allow for the blsg of gay marriag.

”Ward wrote that he believ the issue of gay marriage is “tly plited” and that he rpects all sis on the issue, addg that if elected bishop, “honorg theologil diversy would be a prry. ”“Seekg rolutn and a mutual path forward would volve a basic mment to rpectg the digny of every person, affordg genero pastoral attentn to every voice, and seekg Holy mon ground on nonilly sound footg, ” Ward July 2018, the Epispal Church General Conventn passed Rolutn B012, which required all dc to bls same-sex unns, removg earlier provisns that allowed several dc to prohib such measur, due to them beg nflict wh the biblil standard of B012 allowed clergy to refe to perform gay weddgs, required bishops who oppose them to let another bishop provi pastoral support for the same-sex uple and to provi a prit to perform the November 2018, Albany Bishop Love released an open letter statg that he refed to enforce the rolutn his dce.

WHAT WILL FOLLOW EPISPALIAN VOTE FOR GAY CLERGY?

The vote passed by a two-thirds marg, acrdg to the publitn, which is based Milford, Conn., and clud proment voic among Ain bishops who have loudly nmned the Amerin church for s liberal stance on dramatic motn follows a strg of Epispal Church cisns stretchg back to 2003, when elected Gene Robson, an openly gay man, as a bishop of New Hampshire. ””- Jim Nghton, former non for the Archdce of WashgtonThe spensn after four days of discsns among church lears — “primat, ” church parlance — over the Epispal Church’s posn on gay marriage relatn to the posn of the broar Anglin Communn. “Or were they askg for an apology for how the (church’s erng body) went about openg all the rol and r of the church, cludg marriage, to lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr Epispalians?

Communn lears also reportedly wanted to censure the Anglin Church of Canada, but bee has not yet adopted same-sex marriage r, no actn was Lambeth Palace prs office, home of the archbishop of Canterbury, did not rpond to requts for ment about the vote, which was leaked to the on HuffPost:Same-Sex Weddg PhotosRelatedanglin munnanglin churchEpispal ChurchChristianyGay Marriage.

EPISPAL SODOMY: GAY SEMARIAN PIPELE

“That was a really strikg moment to me as a Lato gay man, ” said Miguel Esbar, executive director of the Epispal Divy School at Unn Theologil Semary, durg a Hoe of Deputi discsn on May 18 tled “A Full and Equal Claim: LGBTQ+ Epispalians Discs the Path Forward. “There were some church I applied to that I uldn’t get as a gay person, and there were others that I applied to that I uldn’t get as a Black person, ” Grav told ENS, scribg his earlier job search. The rolutn “nfs the Church’s ntued heterosexism, homophobia, biphobia and transphobia, and the ongog harmful impact of anti-LGBTQ+ Christian proclamatn, preachg, pastoral re, and theology” and exprs a renewed mment to ensurg that LGBTQ people experience a “full and equal claim” to church life.

Bishop John Howard of Florida said his dce was still reelg om the 2003 nsecratn of openly gay Bishop Gene Robson, which led some clergy and lay members to break om the nomatn, acrdg to a report by RNS.

Wayne of the Church of the Epiphany New York Cy preach that homosexuals “mt be accepted fully to the fellowship of the church” while they also mt seek unselg or psychologil treatment.