Old Catholic order ordains three gay men

http://www.advocate.com/new_news.asp?ID=15451&sd=03/18/05

While the Episcopal Church in the United States endures a moratorium on the ordination of all bishops because of the worldwide Anglican backlash over out New Hampshire bishop V. Gene Robinson, a smaller U.S. Christian religious order is continuing to fill its ranks with openly gay clergy. The Benedictine Order of St. John the Beloved, which follows the teachings of the Old Catholic Church, ordained three new clergy on March 12.

"I certainly would never turn down a straight man as long as he bore no problems with the gay community," said the religious order's archbishop, Bruce J. Simpson, "but at the present we are a gay order doing social justice work, hospice work, and nursing home work, and we are working on plans to buy our monastery."

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Another issue that the Church goes back and forth on, I understand there has been an ongoing discussion about when life begins. I think even before Thomas Aquinas. It's too bad they just can't find these things written in stone somewhere. :eyes: