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May 20, 2013
Church of Scotland votes to allow gay ministers

The Church of Scotland's ruling General Assembly has voted to allow openly gay and lesbians to become ministers

The Church of Scotland’s General Assembly has voted to allow openly gay people to become ministers.

The church voted today (20 May) 340 for and 282 against to allow the ordination of gay and lesbian ministers but only next year.

The decision will have to be endorsed by the church's regional presbyteries and officially approved next year.

The year’s delay is seen as a narrow victory for the traditionalist wing of the Church that threatened to split off.

May 20, 2013
Church of Scotland to debate gay ministers

Four years after the first openly gay reverend in a same-sex relationship was appointed to a new parish by the Church of Scotland, the governing body will decide whether to allow ministers in same-sex relationships

Church of Scotland’s General Assembly is to debate gay ministers in same-sex relationships today (20 May).

The institution’s governing body will consider whether to allow people in same-sex relationships to be ordained as ministers, four years after the first openly gay minister was ordained.

They will be discussing a 94-page report by the Theological Commission, which sets out arguments on both sides.

April 18, 2013
Church of Scotland may let gay ministers have sex

Scotland's largest protestant church already allows gay and lesbian ministers, but they must be celibate

The Church of Scotland is going to debate allowing gay ministers to have sex.

A theological commission has produced a report on the issue of whether the church should ordain ministers who are in same-sex relationships.

Put forward by seven members of the commission, a spokesman told the BBC the report included a broad spectrum of the Scottish Church views.

January 16, 2013
Pro-gay priest will give Obama’s Inaugural Benediction

A pro-gay rights Episcopal priest was chosen by US president Obama to deliver his inaugural benediction

President Obama has replaced conservative, anti-gay Pastor Louie Giglio with pro-LGBT rights Reverend Luis León to deliver his inaugural benediction next week.

Giglio withdrew from the ceremony last week after reportes have surfaced on his anti-gay positions.

León is an Episcopal priest who ministers at St. John’s Church, also known as ‘Church of the Presidents’ just across the park from the White House.

January 4, 2013
Church of England to allow gay clergy to become bishops

A decade after gay cleric Jeffrey John was forced to step down as a bishop by traditionalist Christians, the CoE have said they have evolved on allowing gay bishops

The Church of England has dropped its ban on gay clergy becoming bishops.

This announcement, from the Church’s House of Bishops, would allow clergy in civil partnerships to become bishops if they promised to be celibate, the BBC reports.

In 2003, the issue split the church when gay cleric Jeffrey John, who has always maintained his celibacy, became a Bishop of Reading.

John, now Dean of St Albans, was forced to step down from the role after protests from traditionalists.