Canon Jeremy Pemberton,
the gay priest who lost a tribunal claim that he was discriminated against by the Church of England after he was refused a job for being...
A gay priest who was prevented from working as a hospital chaplain after marrying his partner has urged senior judges to find he suffered discrimination.
Not exact matches
If
gays and lesbians should be put in a electric fence and left for dead, I think all the pastors and
priest who sleep with young boys should be the first ones let in.
There should be a
gay lobby in the Vatican to represent the many Catholics
who are
gay, as well as the
gay priests,
who hold ranks up to Cardinal.
If we put to death all those
who are
Gay or have committed Adultry as the Bible says, we would loose half of the pasters,
priest, politicians and Society including half his congregation.
When asked in a free - wheeling news conference (in the middle of some turbulence) about the presence of
gay priests in the church, he responded, «If someone is
gay and he searches for the Lord and has good will,
who am I to judge?»
A barrage of such stuff, pouncing on any scandal that could be dug up and chipping away at the pontificate of Pope Benedict, not to mention the usual stuff about the need to elect a pope
who would change the «policy» of the Church over such matters as abortion,
gay marriage and women
priests, had been unleashed almost immediately, once Benedict had been congratulated for bringing the papacy into the 21st century by resigning.
They are then further disturbed that the headteacher loyally supports the staff member
who has made the children shout out «penis» or «vagina» at the front of the class, or has said that the Church will one day ordain women
priests, or has talked openly about their
gay partner.
Monday's surprising interview aboard his plane back to Rome, during which, in response to a question about
gays and
gay priests, he said, in part, «
Who am I to judge?»
At the same time, there are expressions of sympathy for
priests who are acting out their homosexual desires and accounts of
gays who claim to have had affairs with
priests.
it would be nice if some of the
gay and lesbian groups would start programs to help the»
priests who abused young boys and girls.»
While members of other religious orders, some diocesan
priests, and even a few bishops
who have cultivated a reputation for being «
gay - friendly» have sharply criticized the November instruction, the Jesuits do seem to be in the vanguard of the attack.
Both
gay and straight
priests, as well as former seminarians, acknowledge that, as many
priests left to marry, the proportion of
priests who were
gay increased dramatically, and in some places,
gay subcultures flourished.
You read someone
who loves
gays but not
gay Catholic
priests!
He was raising the case of after Revd Jeremy Pemberton from Nottinghamshire
who lost his licence to be a
priest when he entered into a
gay marriage in April.
Yeah, instead for a healthier time send them to religious camp so they can be sodomized by a
priest or other religious leader
who is a closet
gay but refuses to understand it because in his deluded mind it is eveil to be
gay but righteous to sodomize a little boy.
«The previous church I had attended was Catholic, with a
priest who seemed to be a
gay alcoholic.
Instead, the Catholic church stands as a beacon of pre-Enlightenment thought, secrecy, exclusion (no women
priests,
gays, or contraception), and corruption (child abuse, financial mismanagement)-- exactly the kinds of preferred targets of this secular era's artists,
who by and large pride themselves on liberality, skepticism, and criticality.