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). Homosexuals also fell to the send tegory: jt as an unmarried pregnant member was seen as shamg the church, when a gay or lbian was disvered among s members — and those days disvery was ually the rult of the publitn the prs of the nam of those arrted followg a police raid on a gay meetg place — this was seen as embarrassg, and that person was purged immediately. However, growg ncern for jtice and civil rights the Uned Stat durg the 1960s, begng wh discrimatn agast blacks and women, was extend at length to homosexuals.
This quickly garnered support om key anizatns: the Amerin Bar Associatn issued a ll for the crimalizatn of homosexual behavr between nsentg adults 1973, and the Amerin Psychiatric Associatn voted to remove homosexualy om s official list of mental disorrs the same year. The more liberal nomatns also rpond: the Uned Church of Christ and the Unarian-Universalist Church, emphasizg that God loved all his children, voted to orda openly gay and lbian pastors. Most of the male church began to bate such issu, and some of their ngregatns clared that they weled gay members.
For example, when, 1977, Ana Bryant succsfully took the lead the mpaign to reverse a civil rights ordance that had helped protect homosexuals agast discrimatn employment and hog Da County, Florida, her mpaign spawned bumper stickers that urged people to “Kill a gay for Christ. The prev “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy the ary was overthrown, makg OK to be openly gay, lbian, or transgenr. However, the relig right, ma up of fundamentalists, Mormons, and many Catholics and Evangelils, is strivg to unrme same-sex marriage, and their ngregatns rarely wele people known to be homosexual.