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Contents:

• BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD
• I AM A GAY VIR AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS AN EMBARRASSG MS
• GAY VIR QUS AND ATTACKS ‘STUTNAL HOMOPHOBIA’
• GAY VIR PH CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO CELEBRATE TRANSGENR INTY LIKE A BAPTISM; SEX CHANGE SURGERY IS 'ABSOLUTE TRMA' CLERGY MT MARK OCSN
• GAY VIRS
• A VERY IRISH SNDAL: THE GAY RUMORS BEHD THE UNSOLVED IRISH CROWN JEWELS HEIST OF 1907
• THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’
• DIVORCED GAY VIR, 55, QUS HER PARISH DISGRACE FOR GOOD AMID CLAIMS SHE HAD DNKEN ROWS WH A STRG OF GIRLIENDS
• UNED STAT TV DIENCE MAND FOR GAY VIRS
• MARRIED GAY PRIT JEREMY DAVI: ‘THE BISHOPS SAY WE’RE NOT MOLLG TEACHGS OF THE CHURCH. Y WE ARE’

BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD

Bra’s only openly married gay vir has been elected to the Church of England’s General Synod, and will e his posn to “advote for a church that fac up to issu of sexualy a hont and passnate way” Forhew-Ca, the vir of St Mary wh All Souls, Kilburn and St Jam, Wt Hampstead, said he was “pleased but shocked” at his electn the London sectn of the natnwi ballot to the church’s erng body. Another gay vir, Bertrand Olivier of All Hallows by the Tower, the Cy of London, was also elected after what he scribed as a “polarisg” ntt. “The next five years will be que important as the Church of England ntu to nsir how als wh gay marriage as the rt of the world mov on, ” he this week Jeremy Pemberton, a gay hospal chapla who is awag the oute of an dtrial tribunal agast the church, will fd out if his bid for a synod seat has been succsful.

The church was “guilty of terrible dishonty” on the issue, he well as mpaigng on gay rights wh the church, Forhew-Ca said he also wanted to prs for the re-tablishment of the synod’s thory. Father Krysztof Olaf Charamsa (L), who works for a Vatin office, hugs his partner Edouard durg a prs nference to reveal his homosexualy Rome, Italy, October 3, 2015. This week the Church of England found self a very publicly difficult suatn about sexualy— the end of Augt, Bishop Nicholas Chamberla, the Bishop of Grantham, me out as the first openly gay bishop wh a partner.

I AM A GAY VIR AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS AN EMBARRASSG MS

We now know that the Archbishop of Canterbury knew about this and ed had them both round for dner; the Bishop of Lln knew, and ed the prs office at Church Hoe knew—'s jt that they uldn't bear to thk that anyone else would weekend has also seen the publishg of an open letter om 14 of the married gay and lbian clergy of the Church of England, and other some married lay people, to our bishops. I had been wh my hband for 15 years before we uld marry, and beg married has ma a real difference—somehow the whole relatnship feels more solidly ground and we rejoice that official posn is that lay people n pretty much do as they please, though the Church ensured that is impossible for gay upl to legally marry a Church of England parish and lol clergy are banned om offerg servic of blsg, such as those given to Prce Charl and Cala after their civil marriage, even if the uple haven't been volved a notor are allowed to enter civil partnerships, aga whout a church service afterwards, and have to promise not to have sex wh each other. Bishop Nic is not a civil partnership but has said that he is celibate and this he is entirely pliant wh the current Church has been an attempt at a blanket stop on marriage for gay and lbian clergy, and those who do are officially discipled, and a ban placed on them ever gettg a new post the Church.

The Church will not nsir for ordatn anyone who is married to someone of the same sex, no matter how good a prit they might quietly, clergy are gettg married or nvertg their civil partnerships to marriage; gay ordands sexual relatnships are gettg the nod through while appearg to ply wh the selectn procr; and clergy are havg sex their civil partnerships. Prits are offerg servic of blsg and thanksgivg to gay and lbian upl and parish celebratg wh them. The first Church of England vir a same-sex marriage is leavg his parish and claims “stutnal homophobia” the church means he is blacklisted om gettg another Forhew-Ca, 53, a member of the General Synod, rigned om his London parish on Sunday, tellg parishners was a “relief” bee his mistry, and that of other gay and lbian clergy, was “barely tolerated rather than fully accepted and celebrated” vir of St Mary wh All Souls, Kilburn, and St Jam Wt Hampstead is movg to Manchter where his hband, Stephen, whom he married 2014, is now workg.

GAY VIR QUS AND ATTACKS ‘STUTNAL HOMOPHOBIA’

I n’t rry on beg a prit bee the stutnal homophobia of the church mak impossible. ”The Church of England bans clergy om gay marriage, but has been tolerant of him his current post. ” He said the current learship, “whilst willg to allow me to ntue here, is unwillg to license me to a mistry elsewhere” wrote of the “nstant prsure” of workg “for an stutnally homophobic anisatn that bldly ni that s polici and practic are liberately and harmfully discrimatory and wrong” add: “I am lookg forward to no longer feelg that a signifint part of me is unwele and rejected by the anisatn that I work for and have served fahfully for nearly 30 years.

"This is not the first time that Newlands has been a cric of the Church of England over s posn on sexual ethics 2012, Newlands clared that the church had a "glass ceilg" for clergy who were openly gay and supported same-sex motn for church celebratn of transgenr inty is not whout s crics. Cast & crewTV Movie200648mA look at the Church of England's stance on homosexualy and how has been forced to rensir s posn light of the Civil Partnership Act. A look at the Church of England's stance on homosexualy and how has been forced to rensir s posn light of the Civil Partnership Act.

GAY VIR PH CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO CELEBRATE TRANSGENR INTY LIKE A BAPTISM; SEX CHANGE SURGERY IS 'ABSOLUTE TRMA' CLERGY MT MARK OCSN

A look at the Church of England's stance on homosexualy and how has been forced to rensir s posn light of the Civil Partnership productn, box office & pany PhotosBe the first to reviewContribute to this pageSuggt an ed or add missg ntentEd pageMore to exploreRecently viewedYou have no recently viewed pag. And at the heart of the sndal were salac allegatns—first whispered, then shouted—about a secret, gay party scene wh the stle walls. At a time when sex acts between men were illegal Bra, Shackleton’s homosexualy was an open secret; police may have feared he’d reveal sndalo rmatn about proment aristocrats his orb—like his iend the De of Argyll, who was also mored to be gay, or the de’s clost iend, the sculptorLord Ronald Gower.

“His life London was totally documented by Stland Yard, ” Brian Lacey, thor of Terrible Queer Creatur: Homosexualy Irish History, tells Mental Floss. In his book, Dungan wr that police disvered Virs was the hab of hostg “soiré” at the stle, wh “some of Dubl’s leadg homosexuals” among his guts.

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A police handout about the Irish Crown Jewels theft / Dubl Metropolan Police, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomaOfficials may have hoped that heapg blame on Virs would put the bacle at Dubl Castle to rt, and they were succsful keepg any whiff of a gay sndal out of the Irish prs. / Gee Washgton Ban, Wikimedia Commons // Public DomaIn fact, the theft of the Crown Jewels marked the third gay ntroversy two s that embroiled high-rankg members of the Brish tablishment.

In the early 1880s, allegatns ma by an Irish natnalist journal led to the exposure of a “work of gay men who were active the cy’s gay unrground, ” wr historian Brian Crowley—among them the director of tectiv wh the Royal Irish Constabulary and the Secretary of the General Post Office of Ireland. That acplice may have been Capta Richard G, a ary man wh a notor reputatn; he was known to be gay and was reportedly prone to vlence, eventually gog to prison for killg a police officer. The group are set to go public an open letter where they will also urge the Church to bls same-sex of the signatori had already clared themselv to be a same-sex marriage but 's unrstood officials had no ia about the other letter will be sent to the Hoe of Bishops September when all of the signatori will be 2014 the Archbishops of Canterbury and York said clergy nnot enter to a same-sex marriage and that those gay marriag will not be Church of England has rpond to the letter, sayg: "The Shared Conversatns procs over the last two years clud the participatn of over 1300 members of the church regnal and natnal settgs.

A VERY IRISH SNDAL: THE GAY RUMORS BEHD THE UNSOLVED IRISH CROWN JEWELS HEIST OF 1907

Rev Andrew Forhew-Ca was one of the first prits to fy the Church's l and marry his gay told The Sunday Tim: "We are now gog to keep phg for the next and the next and the next [step] until we get full equaly the church. "In June 2015 gay vir Canon Jeremy Pemberton tried and failed to sue the Church bee he had been refed a licence to operate as a hospal chapla followg his gay marriage. Gay virs.

THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

It wasn't a good week for Revd Richard Haggis, a practisg homosexual and a prit the Church of England. Richard's story is followed Gay Virs, alongsi the story of Debbie Gaston, a former Anglin prit who has left the Church of England bee of her relatnship wh Elae.

DIVORCED GAY VIR, 55, QUS HER PARISH DISGRACE FOR GOOD AMID CLAIMS SHE HAD DNKEN ROWS WH A STRG OF GIRLIENDS

Hostili over gay sexualy the Anglin Church epted to all-out war 2003 wh the electn of Gene Robson as Bishop of the US Dce of New Hampshire. Robson, who is a mted, long-term relatnship wh his partner, was the first openly gay man to bee a bishop anywhere the Anglin Communn.

UNED STAT TV DIENCE MAND FOR GAY VIRS

The Archbishop of Nigeria, a leadg tradnalist wh the thory that wh nng the world's largt Anglin provce, lled homosexuals ‘lower than beasts’, while another senr church figure acced Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, of ‘theologil prostutn’. Bishop Wallace Benn of Lew, Ssex, appears the programme and reads out a passage om St Pl which looms large the thkg of those who are agast homosexual relatnships: ‘Do not be ceived: Neher the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostut nor homosexual offenrs nor thiev nor greedy nor dnkards nor slanrers nor swdlers will her the kgdom of God.

‘I don't accept the tegorisatn of beg gay, ’ he says. ‘Experiencg homosexual sir is the tegory I regnise.

MARRIED GAY PRIT JEREMY DAVI: ‘THE BISHOPS SAY WE’RE NOT MOLLG TEACHGS OF THE CHURCH. Y WE ARE’

For the bishops of the southern hemisphere who recently rebed Rowan Williams, homosexualy is a ncer, civil partnerships are evil, and Europe is a spirual sert. Meanwhile, as ‘churchmen are locked squabbl about a handful of vers a 2, 000-year-old book, ’ as Joan Bakewell put , gay clergy upl are gettg on wh their liv, wh or whout the church.

Elae strongly disagre that homosexualy is simply a matter of sire. In 2017, he rigned, publicly nmng the church as “stutnally homophobic”. It was a bold statement, and one he knew would bar him om ever heterosexual prits n marry and have sex, gay clergy members are expected to rema unmarried and celibate.

In April, he and a aln of LGBTQ clergy members lnched the Campaign for Equal Marriage the Church of England, which advot for the right of lbian and gay Anglins to marry their lol parish, and mands that gay clergy members who marry should be allowed to exercise their mistry. “Unls the Church of England n be enthiastic s wele of gay and lbian people, and their fai and iends, too, we don’t stand a chance. “I never experienced any homophobia about , ” he rells.