Episcopal Church

The Black Episcopal priest will become the third LGBTQ woman to serve as state senator when she’s sworn in.

“Sexual relationships outside heterosexual marriage are regarded as falling short of God’s purposes for human beings.”

“This can’t be happening. Eric is known as the guy who hates gay people. We’re the church that built our church based on anti-homosexuality.”

Ginsburg named her as one of the co-authors in a career-defining legal brief, even though Pauli Murray had no hand in writing it.

A bishop who said that a “gay rights agenda” had hijacked his church could face disciplinary action.

Parishioners felt that the denomination had become too liberal. So they broke the 8th Commandment.

George Nathaniel Stang confessed to staging the act of vandalism and apologized for “creating more hate.”

St. David’s Episcopal Church accepts gay and lesbian members, and a same-sex wedding has been performed there.

Delegates to the Episcopal General Convention voted overwhelmingly last year to change church law to allow same-sex marriages throughout the denomination.

Delegates at the Methodist General Conference voted 428-405 to delay all consideration of LGBT-related proposals.

Presiding Bishop Michael Curry said Friday the U.S. Episcopal Church will not roll back its acceptance of gay marriage despite sanctions imposed this week by Anglican leaders.

Officials from the Church of England are bracing for a split after next week’s summit to discuss the issue of homosexuality.

Episcopalians overwhelmingly voted Wednesday to allow religious weddings for same-sex couples, solidifying the church’s embrace of gay rights that began more than a decade ago with the pioneering election of the first openly gay bishop.

Episcopalians are set to vote Wednesday on allowing religious weddings for same-sex couples, just days after the U.S. Supreme Court legalized gay marriage nationwide.

BOSTON — Thomas Shaw, a gay monk who served as bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts for nearly two decades and championed Palestinian, minority and other causes, has died. He was 69.

PITTSBURGH — The Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh says its clergy may sign marriage certificates between same-sex couples. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports Monday that the rule is spelled out in a recent letter from Bishop Dorsey McConnell. McConnell has expressed reservations about the theology behind the church’s marriage rite…

NEW YORK — The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while deeply dividing the world’s Anglicans, plans to divorce his husband.

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh’s Episcopal bishop has decided to let local priests decide whether they will conduct blessing ceremonies for same-sex couples.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — The first openly gay bishop of the Episcopal Church told a Purdue University audience he believes God is leading people to a deeper understanding of homosexuality.

The pastor of the Episcopal parish known as “the church of the presidents” will give the benediction at President Barack Obama’s inauguration.