PHILADELPHIA: St. Clement's: Smells, Bells a Gay Curate and Threatened Lawsuit
PHILADELPHIA: St. Clement's: Smells, Bells a Gay Curate and Threatened Lawsuit
Anglo-Catholic Parish Hires Gay Curate. Resignations fly. Vestry and Rector's Warden consult lawyers
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
April 3, 2012
One of the last bastions of Anglo-Catholicism in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania - St. Clement's, Philadelphia - has hired an openly practicing homosexual curate causing the parish to erupt. A majority of the members of the Vestry and Rector's Warden have resigned and are seeking legal counsel.
According to one Midwest website, The Rev. Ethan Jewett is in a homosexual relationship with Michael Bansley, a Roman Catholic. The Rev. Gordon Reid, St. Clement's rector, has told VOL that Mr. Jewett did not bring his partner east from Chicago, Illinois. When Jewett resided in Illinois, he was active in TEC's unofficial pansexual organization Integrity and with LGBTQI folk.
The hiring of Mr. Jewett by a congregation not exactly known for its orthodoxy in morals caught the vestry and wardens by surprise. They protested. A majority of the Vestry and Rector's Warden resigned in protest and hired a lawyer to advise them on their rights and on the Canons of The Episcopal Church.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Anglo-Catholic Parish Hires Gay Curate. Resignations fly. Vestry and Rector's Warden consult lawyers
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
April 3, 2012
One of the last bastions of Anglo-Catholicism in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania - St. Clement's, Philadelphia - has hired an openly practicing homosexual curate causing the parish to erupt. A majority of the members of the Vestry and Rector's Warden have resigned and are seeking legal counsel.According to one Midwest website, The Rev. Ethan Jewett is in a homosexual relationship with Michael Bansley, a Roman Catholic. The Rev. Gordon Reid, St. Clement's rector, has told VOL that Mr. Jewett did not bring his partner east from Chicago, Illinois. When Jewett resided in Illinois, he was active in TEC's unofficial pansexual organization Integrity and with LGBTQI folk.
The hiring of Mr. Jewett by a congregation not exactly known for its orthodoxy in morals caught the vestry and wardens by surprise. They protested. A majority of the Vestry and Rector's Warden resigned in protest and hired a lawyer to advise them on their rights and on the Canons of The Episcopal Church.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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