Episcopal gay

Additionally, LGBT group Integrity holds a counter-convention simultaneous to the General Convention. The acronym stands for

• L: Lesbian, women who are attracted to other women or feminine persons
• G: Gay, men attracted to other men or masculine persons.

  Rev. Williams vows to continue functioning as a priest saying that it will “take a church trial to make him remove his clerical collar.” [30]

   April A “traditionalist” group of churches within the Episcopal denomination, the Episcopal Synod of America, request to be incorporated into their own province because of their opposition to the Church’s “modern positions like ordination of women and equality for homosexuals.” Presiding Bishop Edmond L.

  Browning rejects the request, expressing his “profound” disappointment. [37] 

  1992April Newark, New Jersey’s Bishop John S. Spong draws controversy for an article published in the Virginia Quarterly Review in which he calls St. Paul a “self-loathing and repressed gay male.” Spong also attacks the Roman Catholic Church for being “repressive, patriarchal, prejudiced, and hypocritical” with regard to women and homosexuals.

  The manual, which one critic has called “the most controversial document in the history of the Episcopal Church,” was mandated by the church in an attempt to “come to terms with the sexual revolution” that has rendered the church “out of sync.” [26]

  July The General Convention passes a resolution “decr[ying] the increase in violence against homosexual persons” urging law enforcement officials “across the land to be sensitive to this peril and to prosecute the perpetrators of these acts to the fullest extent of the law.” The resolution also calls upon Bishops to “repudiate the misconception that the Church encourages such violence and to counter the public declarations of those who claim that AIDS is the punishment of God upon homosexual persons.” The Convention also resolves to spend the next three years—until the next convention—in “open dialogue” about sexuality.

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  1995February The Episcopal diocese of Washington D.C., following a statement drafted by Newark Bishop Spong, declares that gays and lesbians who live together in monogamous relationships should be “honored.” [43] 

  June Rev. John K. Mount, a gay, 85 year old priest in Maryland who has been ordained since 1935, loses his “priestly powers” on Maryland’s Eastern Shore after he blessed two HIV-positive gay men in a “marriage-style ceremony.” Mount dies in July 1996 [44]

  1996July The National Consultation of Episcopalians on Same-Sex Unions, held in Washington D.C., reaches a consensus that “there is no justification for the exclusion of gay/lesbian people from full participation in the liturgical and sacramental life of the community.” Their report includes “A Rite for the Celebration of Commitment to a Life Together.” [45]

  1997July Frank T.

  Griswold of Chicago is elected as Presiding Bishop, the denomination’s top post. 8, 2024, 5:25 pmVoter Voice comes to DioMO

• May. Sister Mary Elizabeth’s vows were officiated by Rev. Robert Boyer, in preparation for the establishment of an order to be known as the Community of St. Elizabeth.

  New York Times 06/30/1990 p7

  34. Rev. Richard Kerr, rector of an Episcopal church in Denver, said that “People ought to be taught, instead [of converting sexualities], to accept themselves and how to integrate into the whole community.” [11]

  October United States Bishops meet to discuss homosexuality, among other things.

  Bishop Spong installs Rev. David L. Norgard, a homosexual who had been ordained in Michigan in 1984, as the new director. New York Times 01/11/1977, p34; see also: New York Times 01/16/1977 p148; Washington Post 04/01/1979 pE1; New York Times 08/16/1979 pC16; New York Times 06/02/1984 pA14

  10. Resolution B-6 1A

  18. www.oasiscalifornia.org/1996_Introduction.html

  46.

  One of the other candidates, Rev. Gene Robinson, who was passed over in the selection processes, would have been the first openly gay bishop.

  

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  September At its General Convention, the church legislature debates about 15 resolutions relating to homosexuality. Rt. Rev. Paul Moore, Jr. of New York performs the ordination and says that “homosexuality is a condition which one does not choose; it is not a question of morality.” [9 

  February A general public discussion on the ordination of homosexuals is held, following Barrett’s ordination.

  New York Times 12/28/1992 pD9

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