Conservative Christians are using religious liberty as a basis to oppress the marginalized as well as traumatize parents of children who identify as LGBTQ, according to a retired Episcopal Church bishop and a filmmaker. Robinson was the first man openly in a same-sex partnership to be consecrated a bishop in the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion. According to the speakers, conservative Christians uncritically parrot false conceptions of love that their churches teach. If love can be non-affirming, then conservative Christians, the two speakers argued, believe they are obeying God. In these scenarios, the speakers paint the conservative Christian as a passive loser. They do what their churches tell them, retreat into the safety of uniformity, and reject considering LGBTQ issues until directly touched by a personal event.

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Bishop V. Gene Robinson, First Gay Episcopal Bishop, to Divorce | Time
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Episcopal Church Approves First Gay Bishop
Bishop Gene Robinson says he and his husband, Mark Andrew, are getting a divorce. The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Robinson retired last year, a decade after his election alienated many conservative Anglicans. The pair had been together for 25 years. Robinson disclosed the divorce this weekend, in an email to the Diocese of New Hampshire and in a column for The Daily Beast in which he wrote:. Love can endure, even if a marriage cannot.




By Bruce Nichols. Episcopal Church bishops told Anglican leaders around the world on Tuesday that they will urge restraint in elevating gays or lesbians to the position of bishop and will not authorize rites to be used for the blessing of same-sex marriages. But it remained to be seen whether the pronouncements went far enough to satisfy critics of the Episcopal establishment or prevent further divisions in the million-member global Anglican Communion. While some conservative bishops had left the meeting early to hold their own meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, there was some favorable comment from both sides. Conservative Bishop Bruce MacPherson of western Louisiana, who voted against Robinson as bishop but opposes splitting the church, said progress was made.