{"id":1543,"date":"2005-05-13T13:25:40","date_gmt":"2005-05-13T20:25:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/05\/13\/gay-watch-in-religious-news\/"},"modified":"2005-05-13T13:25:40","modified_gmt":"2005-05-13T20:25:40","slug":"gay-watch-in-religious-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1543","title":{"rendered":"Gay Watch in Religious News"},"content":{"rendered":"

More homophobic zaniness within Vatican politics according to 365Gay.com<\/a>…<\/p>\n

(San Francisco, California) San Francisco Archbishop William J. Levada has been named as prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith – the Vatican department that has led the attack against same-sex marriage and gay rights.<\/p>\n

The Congregation led the infamous Spanish Inquisition from the 15th to the 18th century. It’s last leader, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, is now Pope Benedict.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well gee, Levada just sounds perfect for this job then! A modern vicious Inquisition against the people of the LGBTQ Community–yep, that’s good PR on the Vatican’s part. Way to reach out to everyone else in the world.<\/p>\n

Ratzinger was the author of the a 2003 Vatican directive to priests around the world calling for a proactive stand to stop governments from legalizing same-sex marriage and for a repeal of those those already on the books that give rights, including adoption, to gay couples. (story)<\/p>\n

The 12 page document called on Catholic bishops and lawmakers to oppose the legalization of same-sex unions.<\/p>\n

Under Ratzinger the Congregation also spoke out against the use of condoms to combat HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n

He also was responsible for ordering Sister Jeannine Gramick to stop ministering to American gays and lesbians. Gramick was a co-founder of New Ways Ministry in 1977 to provide educational programs for gay and lesbian Catholics nationwide.<\/p>\n

It is considered unlikely that the Congregation will change much under Levada, who has headed the Archdiocese of San Francisco since 1995.<\/p>\n

In 1977 he told a Synod of Bishops his experience with gays in San Francisco shows the LGBT community is highly organized.<\/p>\n

“The city’s human rights commission named me as contributing to a ‘climate’ of discrimination against homosexuals because I said public recognition should not be given to so-called ‘gay marriages,'” he said.<\/p>\n

That same year, Levada opposed a city ordinance requiring all agencies contracting with the city to provide spousal benefits to domestic partners of their employees…[…]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yep, he’s perfect. Now how about a more positive newsbyte <\/a>on the state of the LGBTQ Community’s relationship with organized religion.<\/p>\n

(Vancouver, British Columbia) Despite pleas from many of the world’s top Anglican leaders, Bishop Michael Ingham said that the blessing of same-sex unions continues within his New Westminster Diocese.<\/p>\n

Ingham endorsed an April 27 statement from a meeting in Windsor, Ontario, where Canada’s Anglican bishops unanimously committed themselves “neither to encourage nor to initiate the use of such rites” until a nationwide synod settles the issue. The next synod session is in 2007.<\/p>\n

But as Ingham sees it, the bishops agreed to take “no further actions beyond those already started” and left his diocese free to continue its practice of same-sex blessings.<\/p>\n

“No bishop was in any doubt that I did not commit myself to a moratorium on same-sex blessings,” Ingham said.<\/p>\n

A same-sex blessings moratorium was part of a unity plea from a February meeting of 35 top world Anglican leaders…[…] <\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s somewhat positive…oh well I’ll take what I can get from organized religion and its treatment of the LGBTQ Community.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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