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REV RICHARD COLES has spoken out on his retirement om the Church of England and how beg a gay man the stutn fluenced his cisn.

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REV RICHARD COL: CHURCH OF ENGLAND CREASGLY 'EXCLUDG' GAY UPL

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The Rev Richard Col has said he is retirg om parish duti bee the Church of England creasgly “exclus” gay parish prit, who announced his cisn to step down January, is one of the most famo virs the UK thanks to his other rol as a mician, journalist and broadster. However, the vir, who was ordaed 2005, has now also spoken out about his ncerns for the future of the Church amidst his ncerns about how gay people “are not wele” some church, as well as the staabily of the parish claimed that the only church growg number and e are those which are “nservative, punchy and fundamentalist” and that he n no longer “accept send-class cizenship the hoehold of God”.

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"There is nothg credable the Church of England's posn on gay relatnships, " he agre. "A while later, he nces that "there are tim when distorts my relatnship wh David, which is the most important thg to me – a feelg that some ways we llu wh a homophobic stutn. "The Church should repent of s hostily to homosexual people and beg fivens for s treatment of the gay muny.

REV RICHARD COL: 'I'M THE GO-TO GAY'

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" Such bigotry seems so ntrary to Christ's teachgs, Col says, that "you nnot be a Christian homophobe" is clear, too, on Christian rponsibily to bat HIV/Aids. Taken quickly, often agony, sometim bld, mothers' screams om bedsis, many only jt learng their sons were gay let alone hours om ath. And all unthkably worst was the first, Mark Ashton, a "very close iend", briefly a lover, and currently beg portrayed as the lead character Pri, the film about Lbians and Gays Support the Mers.

When we discs other 1980s gay pop stars and I mentn Boy Gee chag up and beatg a young man, Col repli: "We've all done terrible thgs. "Growg up realisg you were gay 1970s Bra was like beg a paedophile now – was a life that seemed to offer only disgrace and that was very woundg for me.

"It was his late teens that he took an overdose, chiefly the rult of beg unable to nsir any future beg gay, and was sent to a psychiatric hospal.

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"Somebody wked at me the street the other day – a great big gay wk, which was lightful, but what am I gog to do about ?

Twenty-five years ago this month, No 1 the UK sgl chart was Don't Leave Me This Way, an energetic renrg of the Harold Melv and the Blue Not soul classic by gay 80s synthpop duo the Communards. Warm, whimsil and blsed wh a voice that pretty much f "mellifluo", he now prents Rad 4's popular Saturday morng show Saturday Live and is prentg a new four-part Rad 3 seri lled Out the World: a Global Gay was, he nces, "the go-to gay".

'DEPRSG!' RICHARD COL RETIRED OM CHURCH OF ENGLAND AS 'GAY PEOPLE ARE NOT WELE'

But 'homosexualy' was basilly vented the 19th century.

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The ia of 'beg gay' is a morn one. I mean, if you're gay Malawi, that's a very bald story.

If you grew up gay-lib London and are now livg, middle-aged, middle-class, post-civil partnerships, Bra... "For his part, Col has known he was gay sce, he reckons, he was "about eight. He bought a saxophone and did ge got to know Jimmy Somerville on a Channel 4 documentary about gay teens, and wound up playg claret on A't Necsarily So wh the dimutive Glaswegian volist's then band, Bronski Beat.

He sent me a book of lbian and gay prayers afterwards. "It's not a perfect match, obvly; the majory of gay people don't nform to this stereotype, " he says. He's unhappy wh the CofE's fudge on homosexualy – OK for parishners, permissible for prits, providg they stay celibate.

THE REV RICHARD COL: GAY MARRIAGE, THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND ME

The church has had difficulty wh homosexualy for centuri; 's absurd to thk that n change overnight. Col was also a very close iend of Mark Ashton, currently picted as the lead character Pri, the film about Lbians and Gays Support the Mers. Col add: “There is nothg credable the Church of England’s posn on gay relatnships”.

Openly gay, Augte started his new posn at the Didsbury church April this year and has already ma a lastg imprsn on the lol muny. In 2012, followg the passg of his younger brother, Augte cid to e out as gay. “It was very much of the mdset that beg gay was bad but that uld be cured.

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“I started readg wily and started prayg and I realised that beg gay is actually really fun, ” he now lghs. He’s a member of the Manchter Village Spartans RUFC, an clive and gay gby club, which he creds wh givg him nfince and a support work.

“I experienced racism on datg apps and I felt like I didn’t f to the many different trib of gay men. “Beg part of the Spartans has given me gay iends that have been really amazg for my own journey. “People ask me if was harr g out gay to the Christian muny or g out Christian to the gay muny, and ’s actually really hard.

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The broadster said some church beme more nservative and fundamentalist, meang gay people were not ma to feel fortable such said those church are now “plac where gay people are not wele, [which] l me out". Richard went on to pare the support received by Jake Daniels, the Blackpool FC footballer who recently publicly me out as gay, wh the receptn si explaed: “You’d thk football would be very ristant, but ’s changg.

' Richard Col retired om Church of England as 'gay people are not wele' (Image: Getty)Richard Col has spoken out on his retirement om the Church of England (Image: Getty)“It’s prsg, ” he add to Rad first person who Richard ever me out to was his mother, 1978, when he was 16. Favalora, who was the most powerful Catholic official Southern Florida om 1994 until last year, stands acced of cultivatg what one group of pissed-off Catholics scrib as a rpt "homosexual superculture" the 195 church, schools, missns, semari, and universi that nstute the Miami Archdce.

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If their allegatns are to be believed, for sixteen years Favalora ran his anizatn like the don of a lavenr mob, rewardg his favore homosexual sons and fivg their many discretns—rampant sex, hedonism, embezzlement, alholism, and the railroadg of chaste prits among them—while punishg those wh the temery to pla. Wanton hedonistic gay sex is of urse unobjectnable—even enuraged! A Kd of Gay Hogwarts Wh Palm TreHere are jt some of the un-Catholic behavrs that "Miami Vice" acc Favalora of engagg : He partially owned a pany that manufactured Yohimbe, an aphrodisiac beverage marketed to horny club-kids wh the promise of "the hands-down bt sex of your life.

" He allegedly took equent trips to fabulo Key Wt wh his gay associat. ") Favalora's send- and third--mand, Monsignor William Hennsey and Monsignor Michael Souckar, are both acced by Christefilis of beg active homosexuals—and if they are, that unts among the least of their difficulti wh Catholic fact, the Archdce was a hotbed of sodomy long before Favalora set foot Florida.

Two unrelated sourc, both prits, speak of a flamboyantly gay bishop Arecibo, Puerto Ri, named Miguel Rodriguez Rodriguez, who was known to his pupils as "Lili. John Vianney College Semary—a kd of gay Hogwarts wh palm tre, loted out the flat suburban wast of southwt Da County.

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