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Wednesday, May 14
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Source: Canadian Press via Toronto Star , Holy Cross announcement Despite the disapproval a Canadian bishop, a southern Ontario Lutheran church will take the unprecedented move of ordaining a married gay man. Pastor Dawn Hutchings says about 50 clergy from across the country will celebrate the ordination of Lionel Ketola this Friday at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in Newmarket, Ont. In a statement on its website, Holy Cross says their invitation to Ketola to become associate pastor "is in violation of the ELCIC’s discriminatory policy of excluding 'self-declared and practicing homosexuals'...
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Tuesday, May 13
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Source: Christian Post , Soulforce press release Houston -- Jay Bakker, a New York City pastor and supporter of gay rights, met privately with Joel Osteen of Lakewood Church to talk about faith and sexuality issues. Son of Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, Jay and a group of gays and lesbians attended one of Lakewood Church's worship services in an effort to change the influential pastor's view on gays and lesbians. Osteen welcomed the group, according to Christian Post , but "did not affirm homosexuality." The visit was the first of six megachurch stops in a campaign for tolerance called...
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Friday, May 09
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Source: Sacramento Bee , AP via San Jose Mercury News , Sacramento Bee SACRAMENTO -- Former NBA star Kevin Johnson is now running for mayor of Sacramento. In a hotly contested race with six candidates, he's considered one of the most likely to unseat incumbent mayor Heather Fargo who is running for another term. But Johnson upset local gay and lesbian leaders after making an uncommon appearance at a candidates forum during which he said he believes marriage is between a man and a woman. Fargo and the five other candidates support gay marriage. Johnson later issued a statement saying he supports...
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Thursday, May 08
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Source: Houston Chronicle , Proud Parenting , Soulforce press release At a press conference in Houston Wednesday, Jay Bakker, a New York City pastor, issued an open invitation to families from Joel Osteen's Lakewood Church - the largest church in the U.S. -- to share a picnic with LGBT families in Houston’s Levy Park on Saturday, May 10, 2008. The son of evangelical Tammy Faye Bakker Messner hopes to spend his first Mother's Day weekend since her death at a picnic in Houston with members of Osteen's church and members of Houston's LGBT community. The proposed picnic is part of a...
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Monday, May 05
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Source: AFP via Inquirer.net , Reuters , Manila Times MANILA -- The head of Manila's Roman Catholic church has warned parishes that they will be punished if they allow gay men to play female saint in a popular local festivals called "Santacruzan" or Santa Cruz de Mayo. "Gays should not be allowed to participate in Santacruzan since it defeats the true meaning of the celebration," Cardinal Gaudencio Rosales told the church-run Radio Veritas station on Monday. The prelate said he'll refuse to say mass at any parish that allows gay men to participate in the ceremonies as...
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Friday, May 02
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Source: Dallas Voice , Dallas Morning News The leader of the Episcopal Church said Monday, April 28 that she expects the denomination to sanction same-sex union ceremonies “in our lifetimes.” Speaking at the Episcopal Church of St. Thomas the Apostle, a predominantly gay parish, during her first official visit to Dallas, Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori also said she believes openly gay bishop Gene Robinson’s exclusion from the upcoming Lambeth Conference will only serve to increase his impact on the event. Jefferts Schori is presiding bishop of the U.S. branch of the 80-million-member worldwide...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: The Ledger , The Ledger , Christian Post FORT WORTH, Texas -- Delegates to the United Methodist Church's General Conference today turned back attempts to liberalize its policy on homosexuality. By 55 to 45 percent, the delegates rejected a proposal from a legislative committee leaving in place the position that the practice of homosexuality is “incompatible with Christian teaching.” The question of the status of gays was likely the most contentious one delegates will deal with in the 10-day conference, which concludes Friday. The result of Wednesday’s debate was similar to votes in...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: UK Gay News New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson is in England this week on a book tour for his new memoir, In the Eye of the Storm . [ Amazon ] He's getting plenty of press in the UK for an interview that airs today on BBC in which he lashes out at the way his church's titular leader, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, has handled criticism of Robinson's consecration. But he produced a for a less stormy dialogue when he sat down for a chat with British website UK Gay News . The opening gambit: “What is the correct way to address a bishop of the American Episcopal...
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Wednesday, April 30
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Source: BBC News , Guardian (London) God is "very disappointed" with the failure of the Archbishop of Canterbury to confront the Anglican communion's outspoken critics of homosexuality, its first openly gay bishop says today. Gene Robinson, Bishop of New Hampshire, accuses Rowan Williams of failing to stand up to Christian traditionalists who denounce the bishop's life as an abomination of the Bible's teachings, and threaten the communion with schism for not shunning him. As the first bishop to speak of having a homosexual relationship, following his election in 2003, Robinson...
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Tuesday, April 29
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Source: San Francisco Chronicle , Associated Press via San Francisco Chronicle , Santa Rosa Press-Democrat , Louisville Courier-Journal The top court of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) has cleared Rev. Jane Spahr, a California minister, of charges that she violated denominational law when she officiated at the weddings of two lesbian couples. But the court also refused to recognize the ceremonies performed by the Spahr as weddings -- no matter what she called them -- on the grounds that the church constitution defines marriage as between one man and one woman, Louisville Courier-Journal reports...
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Monday, April 28
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Source: Press-Democrat (Santa Rosa) , Louisville Courier Journal The final decision on whether the Rev. Jane Spahr violated Presbyterian Church law by performing marriages for two lesbian couples will be announced Tuesday. Spahr, 65, a lesbian activist and retired Presbyterian minister from San Rafael, had expected a verdict Monday but it did not come from Presbyterian Church headquarters in Louisville, Ky. She has focused her ministry on gays and lesbians and is an outspoken advocate for allowing them to be ordained. The Permanent Judicial Commission of the General Assembly, the equivalent of...
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Monday, April 28
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Source: UMC report , Soulforce , Ledger , GLAAD Two veterans of the civil rights struggle told a rally held during a major worldwide meeting of the United Methodist Church that there are parallels between the struggles of blacks in the 1960s and those of gays and lesbians working for full inclusion in the church today. At a rally held Sunday outside the Fort Worth Convention Center where the denomination’s 2008 General Conference is meeting through May 2, retired United Methodist clergy the Rev. James Lawson and the Rev. Gil Caldwell spoke of the connection between racism and “heterosexism.” The...
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Sunday, April 27
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Source: Fort Worth Star Telegram , Tulsa World FORT WORTH -- At a major conference of the United Methodist Church (UMC), delegates took steps Friday toward filling posts on the denomination's Judicial Council, which is crucial in determining the church's stance on such issues as same-sex unions, the ordination of sexually active homosexuals and the membership of homosexuals in the church. UMC's General Conference, which is convened every four years is meeting in Fort Worth. Nearly 1,000 delegates from throughout the world have gathered at the Fort Worth Convention Center for the 10...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: Reuters , Associated Press , KFSN TV , Fresno Bee FRESNO, California -- The Episcopal Diocese of San Joaquin is suing a deposed bishop who led a secession last year prompted by the church's ordination of women and gays. The diocese said in its lawsuit, filed Thursday in Fresno County Superior Court, that John-David Schofield breached his duties to the church and demanded he vacate his offices and turn over diocesan property and financial accounts. National church leaders removed Schofield as the head of the Fresno-based diocese after he led parishioners to align themselves with the...
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Friday, April 25
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Source: New York Times , Episcopal Life Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay Episcopal prelate whose consecration led conservatives to split from the church, said in an interview on Thursday that he and his partner of 20 years were planning a civil union ceremony to be held in his home church in the diocese of New Hampshire in June. Bishop Robinson told the New York Times that by scheduling the ceremony for June, he did not intend to further inflame conservatives just before the Anglican Communion gathers in August in Cambridge, England, for the Lambeth Conference, which happens only once every...
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Thursday, April 24
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Source: Grand Rapids Press , WOOD TV , WZZM TV , Between the Lines GRAND RAPIDS, Mich -- Aquinas College said no, but gay-rights activist John Corvino came to Grand Rapids anyway. A group of students arranged for him to speak at a Grand Rapids church Wednesday night after the college canceled his on-campus appearance because it ran against core Catholic values. Qnews background: Catholic college named after philosopher cancels speech by philosopher Corvino says he is grateful students found another location for him to speak. "When I saw how determined these students were to have a voice in...
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Tuesday, April 22
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Source: Vancouver Sun , Globe and Mail VANCOUVER - A South American Anglican archbishop who adamantly opposes homosexual relationships is coming to Vancouver on Friday despite being told to stay away by Canada's top Anglican. Archbishop Gregory Venables, who claims to represent 15 breakaway Anglican congregations in Canada, will speak Friday at a gathering in Delta of the conservative Anglican Network in Canada. Venables, who has been criticized as a rogue archbishop by Anglican colleagues in South America and elsewhere, is recruiting Anglican congregations in Canada and the U.S. that have...
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Thursday, April 17
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Source: Windy City Times , Washington Blade , New York Times , Slate , Gay City News , Time , USA Today Gay and lesbian Catholics were among those who flocked to events in Washington, DC during Pope Benedict XVI's visit to the United States. They predicted in a sternly worded statement released as the pontiff's plane touched down at Andrews Air Force Base that there would be few smiles upon their faces. They came, they said in the statement, to protest the career of a man noted for his antigay positions in his service to the Church. “We are holding up the Pope's words and actions to...
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Friday, April 11
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Source: " href="http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/aquinas_cancels_gayrights_spea.html" mce_href="http://blog.mlive.com/grpress/2008/04/aquinas_cancels_gayrights_spea.html">Grand Rapids Press , The Herald of ASU , WZZM TV News GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. -- A Catholic college named after the Catholic Church's most famous philosopher, Thomas Aquinas, has canceled a speech by a philosophy professor because the professor is a gay rights advocate. A group of students from Aquinas College now is looking for an independent venue to host the presentation by John Corvino, a philosophy...
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Friday, April 11
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Source: Cleveland Plain Dealer , Associated Press via Fox19 The Episcopal Diocese of Ohio is suing to regain control of several churches that broke away in protest over the election of a gay bishop and other doctrinal issues that have divided the denomination. Dissatisfied members of the five parishes named in the suit can leave the diocese, but they cannot hold on to the land buildings, the church said in the lawsuit filed in Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Court. The diocese wants the court to rule that the church holds the rights to the property. The parishes associated themselves an anti-gay cleric...
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Wednesday, April 09
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Source: San Francisco Bay Guardian , Cape Times , Bay Area Reporter San Francisco -- Archbishop Desmond Tutu offered his sincerest thanks and gratitude on Tuesday night to the audience at Grace Cathedral as he delivered a moving acceptance speech, upon receiving the OUTSPOKEN Award from the International Gay and Lesbian Human Rights Commission ( ILGHRC ). The award recognized that Tutu's "leadership (and) outspokenness have contributed substantially to advancing (our) rights", the commission's executive director, Paula Ettelbrick, said. In accepting the honor, the archbishop said...
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Tuesday, April 08
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Source: KCPW News , Salt Lake Tribune A leader of Affirmation, a support group for gay Mormons, said he's "cautiously optimistic" about landmark meeting with LDS church officials. "The church has gone from ignoring us to occasionally answering back to editorial responses," David Melson, the assistant senior executive director for Affirmation, told radio station KCPW. "This is the first time the church has agreed to meet with us." After receiving repeated requests, LDS officials agreed last week to discuss church policies on homosexuality with representatives of...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: Associated Press via Kansas City Star , KTKA TV BALTIMORE -- A federal judge has issued liens against a fundamentalist Kansas church and ordered two of its members to post cash bonds while they appeal a $5 million judgment resulting from the church’s protest at a military funeral. The judge wants the church to pay up after protesting at Maryland soldier Matthew Snyder's funeral. Snyder's father sued Westboro and won $5 million. Marine Lance Cpl. Matthew A. Snyder, 20, was killed in Iraq in March 2006. The church was ordered to post bond of more than $500,000 in property. "I...
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Monday, April 07
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Source: Associated Press via Deseret Morning News , Salt Lake Tribune Salt Lake City -- Associated Press reports that LDS Church officials have agreed to meet with members of Affirmation, a gay Mormon support group that has sought to forge understanding between the faith's leaders and its gay members. In a letter received last week, leaders of Affirmation were invited to meet with Fred M. Riley, commissioner of Family Services for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Harold C. Brown, the agency's past commissioner. Riley's letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Associated...
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Wednesday, April 02
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Source: Associated Press , The Oklahoman , KSBI TV Kern's anti-gay rant OKLAHOMA CITY -- More than 1,000 people rallied at the state Capitol on Wednesday in support of a state legislator who has been widely criticized for anti-gay remarks caught in a YouTube audio clip . Republican state Rep. Sally Kern was denounced by gay and lesbian groups after she was recorded telling a recent gathering of fellow Republicans outside the Capitol that homosexuality poses a bigger threat to the nation than terrorism. Link: Local TV coverage of rally Kern was cheered Wednesday when she told the crowd that...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Seattle Post-Intelligencer , Seattle Times The Very Rev. Robert Taylor resigned Friday as dean of St. Mark's Episcopal Cathedral, amidst acclaim for his accomplishments but following months of controversy over staff shakeups and parish leadership. Taylor came to "The Holy Box," as the cathedral is often nicknamed, in 1999 with a background that put him instantly in the news. He had been an anti-apartheid student leader in South Africa, became a protege of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, and is a partnered gay man. Taylor said in a letter to church members that he was resigning because...
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Friday, March 28
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Source: Boston Globe CONCORD, N.H. -- Five years after he was consecrated a bishop in a nearby hockey arena, wearing a bulletproof vest under his new golden vestments, Gene Robinson is bracing for another round of controversy. "One of the things I think I've learned in the last five years is that, as much as I wanted to be known as the good bishop, and not the gay bishop, there's no escaping," Robinson said in an interview with the Boston Globe last week at the diocesan headquarters. "I would love just to be a simple country bishop, but that just doesn't seem to be in...
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Thursday, March 27
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Source: PageOneQ , NGBlog Kern's anti-gay rant Oklahoma Rep. Sally Kern (R-Oklahoma City), who said that the gay lifestyle is a bigger threat to America than terrorism, faced off against an openly gay pastor last Sunday in a debate on that delved into politics, theology, and scientific research. Kern, as expected, did not apologize or recant her words. Instead, she alternated between denial, clarification, and justification and at one point she even went so far as to present herself about knowing the bible more than Jones. The debate on KFOR TV's "Flash Point" featured Kern, host...
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Wednesday, March 26
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Source: Sydney Star Observer The careers of some of the clergy who marched in this year's Sydney Lesbian & Gay Mardi Gras Parade under the banner "100 Reverends" have been threatened, Sydney's gay newspaper, the Star Observer ( SSO ), reports. But the ministers told the paper that they have also received support from lay churchgoers. 35 ministers marched in the event to apologise for the Christian Church’s past mistreatment of GLBT people. Eight others chose to remain anonymous by sending a proxy. They marched with an accompanying float to cheers along the parade route. Footage...
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Monday, March 24
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Source: Anglican Journal , Virtue Online A group of evangelical bishops from the Church of England tried to make peace with conservative primates (national archbishops) who are planning to boycott this summer's Lambeth Conference, an important gathering of all bishops in the Anglican Communion that is held once per decade, Anglican Journal reports. 20 Church of England bishops sent a letter urging conservative primates who are planning an alternative conference in Jerusalem to reconsider their decision to boycott the Lambeth Conference because of disagreements over the place of gay men and...
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