Gay Anglican priests can become bishops providing they are chaste

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Jan 102013
 
There's no picture: God is love, officiants are negative. © Churchofengland.org.

There’s no picture: God is love, officiants are negative. © Churchofengland.org.

(Blogmensgo, January 10, 2013) The Anglican Church has authorized in the UK on January 4, 2013 gay priests who are within a “civil partnership” (local version of the PACS) to become bishops, subject to remaining chaste. The decision does not apply to women (who do not have the right to become bishops) or heterosexuals. Previously, the only theoretically likely to become gay bishops should not necessarily be single.

The decision to accept gay bishops within PACS was taken in December 2012. “The priests [PACS] that conform to the Church’s teaching on sexuality are likely to be candidates for the episcopate,” said a statement from the Anglican Church.

The decision to accept the ordination of gay bishops has been variously commented within the Anglican hierarchy: traditionalists of course see a danger.

Comment. A religion that prohibits women to aspire to the same charges and honors a man, a religion that prohibits lesbians to seek the same charges and honors gay, a religion that forbids gay bishops the same rights as married bishops a religion that prohibits gay bishops or priests to live within their sexuality as their heterosexual counterparts can fornicate as they see fit – such a religion is nothing but a vector of active discrimination, homophobia, segregation, apartheid.

This article has been translated from our French blog, to view the original, click here.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

(via Huffington Post, January 4, 2013)

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The Catholic Church wants to prevent legalization of gay marriage in the UK

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Mar 202012
 

Archbishop Nichols. He made a vow of chastity but claims to know everything about marriage. © Diocese of Westminster.

(Blogmensgo, March 20, 2012) Two leaders of the Catholic Church in England and Wales have jointly signed an open letter to prevent the British government to legalize gay marriage. The letter was addressed on the weekend of March 11, 2012, the faithful scattered over 2500 churches.

[The open letter in HTML | PDF]

Archbishops Vincent Nichols and Peter Smith, who run the Catholic Church respectively in England and Wales, and the diocese of London Southwark, are asking Catholics to “ensure that the true meaning of marriage is not lost for future generations. ” According to the two prelates, marriage between same sex couples would mean the end of “complementarity of man and woman or the fact that the purpose of marriage is for procreation and child rearing.”

Meanwhile, March 11, the Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, insisted on a clear difference between civil unions and marriage. As this prelate may accept the idea of civil unions, as he rejects any same-sex marriage.

Some Catholic prelates say they favor marriage by same sex. This is the case of Jeffrey John, the former Bishop of Reading and who is also openly gay, he resigned after revealing that he had homosexual relations. He said the Church “has become the last refuge of prejudice.”

Prime Minister David Cameron intends to launch this week a citizen consultation on the legalization of gay marriage that he would like to enact before the end of his term in 2015

A survey conducted for the collective Catholic Voices and published March 8, 2012 (Online | PDF) says that according to 70% of respondents marriage should remain the union between a man and a woman. Only 22% of respondents challenge that position. In contrast, nearly 60% of respondents say they favor homosexual civil unions.

Three days later, an online poll organized by the Daily Telegraph gave the opposite result: three-quarters of persons are in favor of a wedding for everyone regardless of sexual orientation of spouses, one quarter of respondents favoring marriage only for heterosexual couples.

Comment:

Read the interesting article (here or here) as The Economist devotes this sociological study in its issue of March 3, 2012.

Philca & Matt / MensGo

(Via Libération of 12 March 2012)

 

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Pope’s homophobic speech cut short by rain!

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Aug 222011
 

Pope Benedict XVI is protected from the rain with umbrellas during a summer storm in Madrid, Spain. (Getty Images)

(BlogMensGo, 22 August 2011) The Pope has been in Madrid peddling his homophobic beliefs again.  Unfortunately (for him) he had to cut his speech short when a thunderstorm hit Madrid on Saturday night.

PinkPaper and Agence France-Presse report that strong winds and sheets of rain hit the air base Cuantro Vientos where Pope Benedict XVI was speaking, blowing off his skullcap and shaking the stage.

It is reported that 1,5 million people gathered to listen to his speech where he proclaimed marriage to be a union between a man and a woman only.  He managed to squeeze in ‘The Lord calls many people to marriage, in which a man and a woman, in becoming one flesh, find fulfillment in a profound life of communion’.  This was the final speech of his 4 day tour.

Hundreds of gays and lesbians had planned a kiss-in protest against the pope and his speech but were foiled by police, although, its believed that one couple managed to kiss in front of the pope’s vehicle.

In 2005, marriage between same sex parties was legalised but the catholic church has called for the government to outlaw this again as the Pope said last year that such marriage is a confusion to society’s values.

They say the lord works in mysterious ways….I am sure the Pope will not take the hint!

Via PinkNews

Matt / MensGo

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