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Bishop receives consecration
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he told the BBC, "but I sincerely pray we can.
prevent... a split."
Archbishop Peter Akinola, leader of the
Nigerian Church, said the consecration of Gene
Robinson meant a “state of impaired commun
ion" now divided the Church worldwide.
In Nairobi, Eldoret Diocese Bishop
Thomas Kogo, who said he was speaking on
behalf of the Kenyan Anglican establishment,
said: “As a church, we are not going to sup
port homosexuality in the church, primarily
because it is a sin."
“And on that note, we have broken our
links with the U.S. Episcopal Church,” said
Kogo, who spoke on behalf of the Kenyan
Anglican establishment.
Despite the furor in places at home and
abroad bishops lined up to congratulate
Robinson following the ceremony.
The 4,000-plus crowd attending the cere
mony at the University of New Hampshire
sports arena reacted with laughter to state
ments from the state’s retiring Bishop Rev.
Douglas Theuner.
“The disagreement over your election and
consecration, Gene, has been labeled by one
of your detractors as the defining battle in the
war for Anglicanism’s soul, the mother of all
battles,” Theuner Said.
“But guess what — it is not. You are no
more or less a child of God like everyone else.
What a joy it is to have you here.”
Gay soldier discusses Mid Eastern deployment
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Political and military leaders opposed to
allowing open gays and lesbians to serve in
the armed forces argue that unit cohesion
and readiness would suffer if “Don’t Ask,
Don’t Tell” was repealed. But Ryan believes
it’s the policy itself that undermines bonding
among service members.
“When I was in a unit where people did
n’t know [that I was gay], it made it harder to
form interpersonal relationships,” he said.
“Having to conceal something like [your sex
ual orientation] can make you doubt the per
sonal bonds and professional bonds that you
have with people.”
What’s more, he added, the covert exis
tence required by “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
runs counter to everything enlistees are
taught: “One of the biggest tenets of military
service is personal integrity and what the
military is doing is forcing people to lie.”
Nathaniel Frank, a senior research fellow
at CSSMM, agreed that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell”
hampers unit cohesion because it “forces gay
soldiers to train, live and fight under a peculiar
burden of isolation, which is particularly oner
ous when troops deploy to hostile territory.”
The findings of another researcher indicate
that the detrimental effects of the gay ban aren’t
limited to gays. Melissa Sheridan Embser-
Herbert, a professor of sociology at Hamlinc
University and a retired U.S. Army Captain, told
CSSMM that “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” negatively
impacts heterosexuals by forcing them to “go
out of their way to be read as heterosexual."
While studying service members’ atti
tudes toward gender and sexual orientation
conformity, Embser-Herbert said she was
stunned by the degree to which soldiers, par
ticularly women, spoke of the need to “dis
play heterosexuality.”
“The part that really shocked me,” she said,
“was the number of women who talked about
either dating or having sex with men to [prove]
their heterosexuality. By creating an environ
ment where people are at risk if they’re thought
to be non-heterosexual, you create an environ
ment where soldiers are compelled to make
sure people think that they are heterosexual.”
Ryan added that, for gays and lesbians,
serving under “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” can lead
to feelings of resentment that undermine
morale and commitment. He said gay soldiers
Opponents of the military's onti-goy
policy soy it undermines unit cohesion.
sometimes question why they should put
themselves in harm’s way for an organization
that treats them as second-class citizens.
“This is the way a lot of gay people feel,”
he explained, “and it’s unfortunate because
[the military provides] a great opportunity to
serve your country.”
info:
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