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HUFFINGTON
10.07.12
was consecrated, and here we
are nine years later and we’re
still the Anglican Communion.
No, I don’t think it is going to
splinter. At the Lambeth Conference [the main gathering of
Anglican Bishops], the African
Bishops said to the American
Bishops: “Look, we don’t get this
whole thing. You say we have
gay people in our churches, we
don’t know about that, but this
comes way down on our list of
priorities. We have people dying
of malaria and AIDS, we’ve got
abject poverty, civil war, women
and children being abused—so,
why don’t we work together on
getting water to that village over
there. And somewhere along the
line we’ll get to this. And we
might even discover that some
of the people who are helping us
get water are gay. And eventually
we can learn about that.”
What advice do you have for young
LGBT people who are seeking spiritually grounded lives? The journey of
coming out is an inherently spiritual one which asks the religious
questions: Who Am I?, Where
am I going? Am I worthwhile?
Am I loved, Am I loveable? So,
LGBT people should recognize
that they are on a spiritual journey and that even if the church
has treated them poorly and they
have gotten as far away from
church as they can get, they still
have a spiritual life with spiritual needs. And even if the church
often answers the question of
“are you loved or lovable”
wrong, God never does.
Top and
bottom:
the Bishop
advocates
gay marriage
in D.C. earlier
this week.
Middle: With
his daughter
Ella and
husband,
Mark Andrew,
in 2003.