Wednesday 20 January 2010

Church of Sweden ordains first openly lesbian bishop

Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:
Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
Romans 1:24-26

This item didn't get a lot of media coverage in North America, so you may have missed it in November 2009:

Published: 9 Nov 09 07:43 CET
The Church of Sweden on Sunday ordained a female pastor as the country's first openly homosexual bishop, just weeks after approving gay marriages. Eva Brunne, 55, was consecrated as the Bishop of Stockholm in a ceremony at Uppsala cathedral, just north of the Swedish capital, the Church of Sweden said in a statement.
According to Radio Netherlands, King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia attended the ceremony.

The ordination came 17 days after 176 of 249 members of the Synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden voted in favour of weddings for sodomites and lesbians. Invitations to the ordination ceremony were offered to clergy from other countries, but not all accepted. Five Church of England bishops, including Archdruid of Canterbury Rowan Williams, turned it down, as did some bishops from Ireland. Others who declined the invitation included the churches of Iceland, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, as well as the World Lutheran Federation. Representatives of churches from South Africa, the Philippines, Denmark, Norway, Finland, and Germany said they planned to attend.

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