6.5.14

ΤΟ ΔΙΑΖΥΓΙΟ ΤΟΥ ΑΝΑΚΟΙΝΩΣΕ Ο ΓΚΕΪ ΑΓΓΛΙΚΑΝΟΣ ΕΠΙΣΚΟΠΟΣ ΤΖΗΝ ΡΟΜΠΙΝΣΟΝ

Χώρισε ο πρώτος ανοιχτά γκέι... επίσκοπος 
Διαζύγιο πήρε από τον, επί 25ετίας σύντροφό του, ο επίσκοπος Τζην Ρόμπινσον...
ο οποίος είχε σοκάρει την αγγλικανική εκκλησία όταν αποκάλυψε ότι είναι ομοφυλόφιλος και έκτοτε έγινε σύμβολο για τα δικαιώματα των γκέι παγκοσμίως.
Ο επίσκοπος Ρόμπινσον, ο οποίος έχει συνταξιοδοτηθεί εδώ και μερικά χρόνια, ανακοίνωσε με επιστολή του στον Τύπο το διαζύγιό του δηλώνοντας «Η αγάπη αντέχει, ακόμα και αν ο γάμος δεν μπορεί».
Τόνισε, όπως αναφέρει ο Guardian, ότι θα είναι για πάντα ευγνώμων στον Μαρκ Αντριου, αλλά διευκρίνισε ότι οι λεπτομέρειες του χωρισμού τους δεν θα ανακοινωθούν.
Στην επιστολή του προς τον Τύπο, ο Ρόμπινσον, αναφέρει «Ηταν μια παρηγοριά να γνωρίζουν όλοι ότι τα ζευγάρια ομοφυλοφίλων και λεσβιών υπόκεινται στις ίδιες επιπλοκές και δυσκολίες που πλήττουν τους γάμους μεταξύ ετεροφυλόφιλων».
«Η πίστη μου στο γάμο είναι αμείωτη, παρόλο το διαζύγιο με κάποιον που έχω αγαπήσει για ένα πολύ μεγάλο χρονικό διάστημα και θα συνεχίζω να αγαπώ ακόμα και αν χωρίζουμε» (
gr.celebrity.yahoo.com)

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erva_cidreira είπε...

Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop whose election split the Anglican church, has announced that he is divorcing his husband.

Robinson, 66, who retired in 2010, made his announcement in an email to the diocese of New Hampshire and in an article for The Daily Beast. He and Mark Andrew entered a civil union in 2008 and converted it to a marriage when New Hampshire legalised the institution, in 2010.

Between 1972 and 1986 Robinson was married to Isabella McDaniel, with whom he has two daughters. McDaniel supported his 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire, which, caused conservative Episcopalians in the US to break away and was the subject of intense debate in the worldwide Anglican church.

During his consecration, having received death threats and having been the subject of a smear campaign, Robinson and Andrew wore bulletproof vests. In 2006 he was treated for problems with alcohol. In 2009 Robinson was invited to speak at the inauguration of President Barack Obama; after his retirement he joined a think thank, Center for American Progress, with close ties to the administration.

For the Daily Beast, Robinson wrote: “Recently, my partner and husband of 25-plus years and I decided to get divorced.

“While the details of our situation will remain appropriately private, I am seeking to be as open and honest in the midst of this decision as I have been in other dramatic moments of my life – coming out in 1986, falling in love, and accepting the challenge of becoming Christendom’s first openly gay priest to be elected a bishop in the historic succession of bishops stretching back to the apostles.”

He added: “It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples.”

Jim Naughton, an advocate for gay rights and co-founder of Canticle Communications, told the Associated Press the "strength, grace and generosity" shown by Robinson and Andrew would “always be a source of inspiration" for Episcopalians and Anglicans seeking acceptance of gay relationships.

Naughton said: "Anyone who is using this moment to pass judgment on what kinds of Christians LGBT people are needs to reflect more deeply on their own Christianity."

In 2010, announcing his retirement, Robinson told his New Hampshire diocese: “Death threats, and the now-worldwide controversy surrounding your election of me as bishop, have been a constant strain, not just on me, but on my beloved husband, Mark, who has faithfully stood with me every minute of the last seven years, and in some ways, you.”

On the eve of his consecration, Robinson's hometown newspaper, Kentucky's Lexington Herald-Leader, called him: "The most controversial Anglican leader since Henry VIII."

theguardian.com

Ξενικός είπε...

δεν θα έδινα ιδιαίτερη σημασία για τα καμώματα των "ιερέων" - το τμήμα αυτό της κοινωνίας όπου η υποκρισία συνήθως περισσεύει. Είναι σημαντικό όμως ότι ένα-ένα πέφτουν κάτι "ιερά κι όσια" που μας έχουν ταλανίσει αιώνες...
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