Holger Allmenroer is a Catholic prit who is also openly gay. He supports gay and lbian people, divorce and those who have remarried. Tradnalists may fd him alienatg but his mass are well attend. Is he the future of the Church?
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A GAY MAN’S JOURNEY THROUGH THE ADVENTIST CHURCH
The Adventist Church’s official statement on Homosexualy, adopted 1999 and revised 2012, says that the church is “opposed to homosexual practic and relatnships.
” The Church Manual also nmns “homosexual and lbian practic, ” though the statements—and the church’s Workg Policy—do not explicly addrs bisexualy or prohib intifyg as non-heterosexual. In s Media Reference Gui, the Gay & Lbian Alliance Agast Defamatn (GLAAD), a US-based non-ernmental anizatn, intifi “liftyle” as a term to avoid when discsg LGBTQ issu.
“We ll on lol Adventist ngregatns to provi sanctuary and wele to gay, lbian, and transgenred people, their iends and fai, ” SDA Kship said a statement. The recent statement of the EUD admistratn upholds the tegry of Adventist pastoral mistry support of Bible tth, as well as the Adventist Church's voted statements on Human Sexualy, Homosexualy, and world church lears, we support the current efforts of the EUD admistratn to work wh the Hanseatic Conference, close nsultatn wh the North German Unn, to addrs the issue of a pastor ntug to hold misterial crentials while prentg himself to be bisexual and promotg this liftyle.
SEVENTH-GAY ADVENTISTS
"The Bible proclaims the good news that sexual ss mted by heterosexuals, homosexuals, transgenr people, or others n be fiven, and liv n be transformed through fah J Christ (1 Cor 6:9-11).