Gay, Lbian, Bisexual, Transgenr, Queer News & Polics

Contents:

• EPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALYEPISPAL CHURCH SPLS OVER GAY EQUALY
• MOSW GAY BARS
• MOSW GAY MAP
• EPISPAL CHURCH WON'T BACK DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS DPE CENSURE
• THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS

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. “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. 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.

MOSW GAY BARS

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. 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.

MOSW GAY MAP

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. 1994 June A mtee of the Epispal Church bishops releas a draft statement that asks the church to “uphold an ial of lifelong fahful unns for both heterosexual and homosexual upl, and treat gay people wh hospaly rather than hostily.

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

Augt At the General Conventn, the Standg Commissn on Human Affairs nclus that “ironilly this De of Evangelism, we seem tent on keepg out one of the few intifiable groups of people who want to be weled [gays and lbians]. ” Their “wish list” for 1994 clus “dialogue on human sexualy to ntue wh the Church, more lbian and gay members [to] e out of the closet and be regnized as human begs rather than as an issue, members [to] speak out agast ‘gay bashg, ’ and church members [to] fight lol iativ signed to prive gays and lbians of equal civil rights.

June Jon Holn-Gallucc and Michael Gallucc, a gay uple whose lawsu paved the way for other unmarried upl the state of NJ to adopt children jotly, have their unn blsed an Epispal ceremony on Father’s Day. Augt At the Lambeth Conference, the once-a- gatherg of about 700 Anglin lears, the world’s bishops vote to endorse a rolutn clarg homosexual activy to be “patible wh Scripture, ” and advise agast the ordatn of homosexuals. 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.

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.

THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS

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.

” 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. "It's only been a ltle over a that our own movement has e to unrstand homosexualy and genr inty different ways, " says Rabbi Jab Blumenthal, CEO of the Rabbil Assembly, an ternatnal associatn of rabbis the Conservative tradn.