CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — 'The issue of gay people and their rights is equivalent a stggle our time to the one over race,' said Michael Curry, pridg bishop of the Epispal Church.
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- EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY
- MOSW GAY BARS
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- EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE
- THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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1967: November Durg a symposium on homosexualy sponsored by the Epispal Dc of New York, Connecticut, Long Island, and Newark, nety Epispalian prits agree that the church should classify homosexualy as “morally ntral” and “ some s…a good thg. The Conventn ultimately pass a rolutn statg that no “practicg homosexual” nor heterosexual person engagg extramaral sex should be ordaed, though homosexuals have “equal claim wh others upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern of the church”.
1982: Undated (Likely June/July) The General Conventn pass a rolutn reaffirmg the actns taken by the 1976 and 1979 Conventns, holdg that “homosexual persons are children of God and are entled to full civil rights. 1984 July Epispal Bishop of New York, a long-time supporter of gay rights, wr an edorial for the New York Tim which he nmns the Salvatn Army and the Roman Catholic Archdce, while praisg the NYC mayor a ntroversy over the employment of homosexuals publicly fund NYC church agenci.
1985: September The General Conventn pass a rolutn urgg each dce to “fd an effective way to foster unrstandg of homosexual persons, to dispel myths and prejudic about homosexualy, [and] to provi pastoral support. 1987: January-December (yearlong ntroversy) In January, John Shelby Spong, the Epispal Bishop of the Newark, New Jersey dce, backed by a report prepared by lol clergy and lay people, seeks approval to regnize and bls “nonmaral relatnships, cludg those between homosexuals.
THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS
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Bishop Spong later claims that his support of homosexuals stems om his work the Civil Rights Movement, argu that the Christian Church’s treatment of homosexuals throughout history is “immoral, ” and says that the church mt “al wh realy. May A manual entled “Sexualy: A Dive Gift, A Sacramental Approach to Human Sexualy and Fay Life, ” which was released September of 1987, draws ntroversy for ndong homosexualy as well as s “failure to nmn” sex outsi of marriage.
July The General Conventn pass a rolutn “cr[yg] the crease vlence agast homosexual persons” urgg law enforcement officials “across the land to be sensive to this peril and to prosecute the perpetrators of the acts to the fullt extent of the law.
” The rolutn also lls upon Bishops to “repudiate the misnceptn that the Church enurag such vlence and to unter the public claratns of those who claim that AIDS is the punishment of God upon homosexual persons. 1989 June The Dce of Newark, New Jersey opens a special mistry, entled Oasis Mistry, to brg “unchurched and embtered lbians and gay people” to a church program that accepts their sexual orientatn. April A “tradnalist” group of church wh the Epispal nomatn, the Epispal Synod of Ameri, requt to be rporated to their own provce bee of their opposn to the Church’s “morn posns like ordatn of women and equaly for homosexuals.