Your thoughts on bishop requt to remove BLM, gay pri flags | Natnal Catholic Reporter

Contents:

• DAVE BTISTA SHUTS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC BISHOP CALLG FOR GAY PRI MONTH BOYTT
• BISHOPS BLASTED FOR DENOUNCG GAY PRI MONTH
• BISHOP RELEAS ‘PRI MONTH’ VIO LAMENTG ‘WHE PRIVILEGE,’ APOLOGIZG TO GAYS
• BISHOP STRIPS MASS. SCHOOL OF ‘CATHOLIC’ SIGNATN FOR DISPLAYG BLM AND GAY PRI FLAGS
• YOUR THOUGHTS ON BISHOP REQUT TO REMOVE BLM, GAY PRI FLAGS
• EXCLUSIVE: BISHOP SCHNEIR EXPLAS THE RRECT CATHOLIC RPONSE TO ‘GAY PRI’
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE
• HALF OF PRITS AND BISHOPS ARE GAY

DAVE BTISTA SHUTS DOWN HOMOPHOBIC BISHOP CALLG FOR GAY PRI MONTH BOYTT

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“Sometim people n make equivotns, ‘Well if ’s a s to engage a homosexual act, then I mt be terrible person. Catholics who gathered at Newark’s Cathedral Basili of the Sacred Heart, and 2019, he told NBC News that he found the church’s language around homosexualy to be “very unfortunate” and “hurtful. Acrdg to the Centers for Disease Control and Preventn, lbian, gay and bisexual youth are bullied and attempt suici at higher rat than their heterosexual peers.

In this Friday, April 19, 2019 file photo, a gay pri rabow flag fli wh the U. Bishop has thrown his support behd the ban on discrimatn agast lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr people, sayg that fightg the measure sends the wrong msage to L. Some studi suggt that people who intify as homosexual earn higher than the natnal average, ” crics of the bill say that uld force Catholic hospals and medil workers to provi servic that go agast church Catholic Health Associatn, which reprents more than 2, 200 Catholic health re enti, sent a letter to lawmakers on Feb.

BISHOPS BLASTED FOR DENOUNCG GAY PRI MONTH

Catholics by bishops workg to block the Equaly Act, pecially light of church teachg that prohibs “unjt discrimatn” agast gay and lbian Stowe said he unrstands the fears about how the bill uld ge on relig liberty should bee law. Acrdg to the report, which is based on a survey of more than 10, 000 adults nducted 2020, when asked if “you strongly favor, favor, oppose, or strongly oppose laws that would protect gay, lbian, bisexual, and transgenr people agast discrimatn jobs, public acmodatns, and hog, ” majori of Hispanic Catholics (81 percent), whe Catholics (77 percent) and other Catholics of lor (74 percent) said they do.

BISHOP RELEAS ‘PRI MONTH’ VIO LAMENTG ‘WHE PRIVILEGE,’ APOLOGIZG TO GAYS

The UMC’s stance on homosexualy has been a hot-button issue sce 1972, rultg creasg ranr wh the nomatn. The BOD also stat that, “The practice of homosexualy is patible wh Christian teachg.

BISHOP STRIPS MASS. SCHOOL OF ‘CATHOLIC’ SIGNATN FOR DISPLAYG BLM AND GAY PRI FLAGS

Tob, a bishop Rho Island, found himself at the center of ntroversy June 1 after tellg Catholics around the untry to boytt Gay Pri Month events. Tob attempted to backtrack on his ments by sayg he regretted “that my ments yterday about Pri Month have turned out to be so ntroversial our muny, and offensive to some, pecially the gay muny. Gay activists were monstratg Sunday night outsi of Tob's thedral Province prott of Tob's tweet on Saturday that Catholics should avoid supportg or attendg gay pri events, one of which was schled for Tob's Rho Island dce on June 15.

An avalanche of tweets followed wh many activists labelg the bishop as hateful and homophobic. Strickland also took exceptn to the label of homophobic, tweetg on Sunday, "Please stop labelg bishops who speak the tth of the Gospel as homophobic. Please stop labelg bishops who speak the tth of the Gospel as homophobic.

But many Catholics Tob's dce, like Tyler Rowley, fend the bishop sayg he was jt dog his job while also notg the sndalo behavr that acpani gay pri events often held durg the month of June. Watch the panel discs the legal and spirual battl behd the gay agenda The Download—LGBT Encroachment.

YOUR THOUGHTS ON BISHOP REQUT TO REMOVE BLM, GAY PRI FLAGS

Photograph urty of Sat Mark ChurchGrowg up gay and Baptist, Jim Harper and Darrell Card noticed the stark ntrasts Christiany as they marched to the rner of Peachtree and Fifth Streets durg an early 1990s Pri para. “On one si of the street, Atlanta police officers on horseback had been hired by the First Baptist Atlanta church to keep gay people off their property, ” rells Harper. The uple, who met 1980, were officially wed on December 30, a time when the global Methodist Church is still wranglg wh anti-gay doctre wrten to s Book of Disciple, Midtown Atlanta’s Sat Mark UMC may offer a blueprt for the future.

For nearly 30 years, Sat Mark has exemplified progrsn and cln, embracg Atlanta’s LGBTQ+ muny and hirg gay church’s unique civil rights legacy extends back more than 50 years. But the seeds for the church’s groundbreakg learship on gay rights were first planted on Gay Pri Sunday, 1990. ” In 1990 Atlanta, so was the cy’s gay populatn, as the AIDS epimic spiraled out of ntrol wh few effective treatments.

”By Gay Pri 1991, Cordle and his new ngregatn were ready wh flyers prted wh an vatn to worship and cups of ld water for thirsty para participants. The gay people Cordle waved to were the next Sunday, two new female ngregants appeared the pews. The new gay members of the church also ted Cordle, a heterosexual married father, about rrect termology and offered sights to their stggl, pecially surroundg the AIDS crisis.

EXCLUSIVE: BISHOP SCHNEIR EXPLAS THE RRECT CATHOLIC RPONSE TO ‘GAY PRI’

Cordle began visg the sick hospals and speakg at their memorial servic, whether they were held the sanctuary or on the garn pat at Burkhart’s pub, a popular gay bar Midtown.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH ANNOUNC PROPOSAL TO SPL OVER GAY MARRIAGE

Unlike the Worldwi Anglin Communn, of which is a part, the Epispal Church do not nmn homosexualy. In 1976, both the Hoe of Deputi and Hoe of Bishops voted for a fully clive Epispal Church, statg, “homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim wh all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral ncern and re of the church.

However, the church had already nsecrated s first openly gay bishop 2003. “I’m happy to greet you durg this Pri Month, and happy to say a word of gratu to you for the way that you strive to tegrate your fah and your inti as people of God, children of God, ” Stowe began, before he started to apologize for the Church’s teachg on homosexualy and genr nfn. The bishop reunted that four years ago, the Orlando homosexual nightclub shootg took place, leadg to the creatn of “this form of [LGBT] mistry our dce.

Followg the shootg, the lear of the pro-homosexual movement wh the Dce of Lexgton, JR Zerkowski, had “hosted a eveng of song and prayer ung the whole muny, and people of different fah tradns, right there at St. He praised how the advot of acceptg homosexualy wh the Church “put their rabow flag outsi” of one of his dce’s church. Stowe also praised Zerkowski for attendg “gay pri events, ” offerg “a listeng ear, a passnate face, and an outreach.

HALF OF PRITS AND BISHOPS ARE GAY

He then said practicg homosexuals and those livg as a person of the oppose sex are “part of that body of Christ, ” which is the Church. In fact, the Catechism of the Catholic Church is very clear on homosexualy.

“Basg self on Sacred Scripture, which prents homosexual acts as acts of grave pravy, tradn has always clared that ‘homosexual acts are trsilly disorred, ’” the Catechism pots out. While emphasizg that people wh homosexual tennci “mt be accepted wh rpect, passn, and sensivy, ” the Church lls them to chasty, stead of livg an active homosexual liftyle. In the Congregatn for the Doctre of the Fah’s 2003 document, Consiratns Regardg Proposals to Give Legal Regnn to Unns Between Homosexual Persons, then-Cardal Joseph Ratzger (who later beme Pope Benedict XVI) wrote: “In those suatns where homosexual unns have been legally regnized or have been given the legal stat and rights belongg to marriage, clear and emphatic opposn is a duty.

Bishop Stowe has a long track rerd of embracg both homosexualy and transgenrism. In 2017, two years after he was ma a bishop by Pope Francis, Stowe spoke at a New Ways Mistry nference, even though the nomally Catholic group advot for homosexual “marriage” and has been nmned by the Vatin and the U.