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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEpiscopal Bishop of NY's Amazing Letter of Support for the LGBT Community after Carson murder
The Right Reverend Andrew Dietsche
Bishop of New York
In the wake of the murder, just steps from the Stonewall Inn, of gay activist Mark Carson, the Episcopal Bishop of New York, Andrew Dietsche, has issued an amazing and unqualified letter of support for our community, one of the strongest expressions of support I have ever seen from any cleric of any faith or denomination. God bless you, dear Bishop Dietsche.
[font size=4]Bp Dietsche on Anti-Gay Hate Crime[/font]
[font size=3]We emphatically do not believe that homosexuality is incompatible with the Christian life.[/font]
[font color=gray]May 31, 2013[/font]
The Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche issued a pastoral letter today, May 31, (attached in full below) expressing sorrow and outrage at the May 18 murder of Mark Carson, and deploring the fact that it was one of a total of nine violent anti-gay hate crimes in the month of May in Manhattan.
Dietsche, who took over as the diocesan bishop in February, said in his statement that the Diocese of New York has labored to remove every barrier to the full inclusion of and participation by the LGBT community in our church in the whole of our life and most recently broadened our understanding of and teaching regarding marriage to include same sex couples.
While, he observed, there are many who insist that homosexuality is incompatible with the Christian life, we emphatically do not believe that, and encouraged the people of the diocese to let the world see and know that there are countless faithful Episcopalians in the LGBT community, and that they are loved, embraced and respected by the larger body of the Church of which they are and have always been a part.
Text of the Bishop's Pastoral Letter
[font size=3]We emphatically do not believe that homosexuality is incompatible with the Christian life.[/font]
[font color=gray]May 31, 2013[/font]
The Rt. Rev. Andrew M.L. Dietsche issued a pastoral letter today, May 31, (attached in full below) expressing sorrow and outrage at the May 18 murder of Mark Carson, and deploring the fact that it was one of a total of nine violent anti-gay hate crimes in the month of May in Manhattan.
Dietsche, who took over as the diocesan bishop in February, said in his statement that the Diocese of New York has labored to remove every barrier to the full inclusion of and participation by the LGBT community in our church in the whole of our life and most recently broadened our understanding of and teaching regarding marriage to include same sex couples.
While, he observed, there are many who insist that homosexuality is incompatible with the Christian life, we emphatically do not believe that, and encouraged the people of the diocese to let the world see and know that there are countless faithful Episcopalians in the LGBT community, and that they are loved, embraced and respected by the larger body of the Church of which they are and have always been a part.
Text of the Bishop's Pastoral Letter
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Episcopal Bishop of NY's Amazing Letter of Support for the LGBT Community after Carson murder (Original Post)
markpkessinger
Jun 2013
OP
Wish the Episcopal bishop of Mississippi was like-minded...Sadly he's not however
Rowdyboy
Jun 2013
#4
hrmjustin
(71,265 posts)1. I love Andrew!
I am proud that he is my Bishop!
annabanana
(52,791 posts)2. The Episcopal Church in America
is pretty righteous, for a church bureaucracy.
xchrom
(108,903 posts)3. I just love being an episcopal church member.
Rowdyboy
(22,057 posts)4. Wish the Episcopal bishop of Mississippi was like-minded...Sadly he's not however
he retires next year. Thanks be to God!