Why are so many of the clergy gay?
by Ancient Briton:
‘Puzzled’ commentator posed the question in a comment under my previous entry, “Why are so many of the clergy gay??? It seems to be the norm these days. I cannot understand it.” A little ‘Googling’ finds some interesting facts given the current protests by LGBT activists about exclusion.
Twenty-two years ago Andrew Brown wrote in Why gays are called to the church: “… There are still large areas of Christianity which remain no-go areas for gays. Most evangelical churches are passively hostile to homosexuality…On the other hand, there are areas, especially of the Church of England, in which gays are hugely over-represented. In the diocese of London, for example, one of the Bishop’s advisers once estimated to me that about 200 of the 900 priests in the city are in homosexual relationships. The Bishop, incidentally, once ran St Stephen’s House in Oxford, by common consent the campest of all theological colleges, where he was known to his ordinands as Ena the Cruel, since it was a college tradition to give everyone female nicknames…”
The fate of the US Episcopal Church should have provided sufficient warning of the likely fate of the Anglican Church in the UK if it adopted the same liberal agenda. Instead it has been used as justification for more liberalisation.
I blogged in 2011: “The slow death of the Anglican church looks set to continue. While the role of bishops and priests becomes ever further divorced from traditional religious reality congregations continue to haemorrhage. Despite earlier pleas for restraint from Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, after the Bishop Gene Robinson affair, Canon Mary Glasspool was elected a bishop in Los Angeles while being in an openly long standing lesbian relationship. ‘Restraint’ is now turning to farce as synodical Christians seek additional ways of bending Christianity to their will rather than the will of the church Universal.”
Church Militant reported: As much as half of priests and bishops are homosexual. From ‘the Vortex’ video presentation on the number of homosexual men in the Catholic priesthood:
“Numerous independent sources inside the Church began polling and interviewing and questioning and researching. Their results were jaw-dropping. One survey done by a New Jersey Franciscan priest and researcher revealed that 45 percent of 500 priests surveyed volunteered that they were gay and that one in four of them had AIDS — proving a rampant promiscuity.”
Related Posts
Tags
Share This
