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The Episcopal Church is planning a multi-day event this fall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a resolution to affirm homosexual members in the denomination.
Church leaders will gather in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for "Full & Equal: 50 Years in Pursuit of a Promise," a three-day conference starting Sept. 3 to commemorate the September 1976 passage of Resolution A069 to "recognize the equal claims of homosexuals," according to the Episcopal News Service.
The resolution, which was passed at the 65th General Convention in Minneapolis, affirmed "that it is the sense of this General Convention that homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim with all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral concern and care of the Church."
The resolution passed four years after the United Church of Christ (UCC) became the first denomination to ordain an openly gay minister in 1972, and came at a time of intense debate among Episcopalians over women's ordination and the Book of Common Prayer, which was ultimately revised in 1979 with modernized English.
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Church leaders will gather in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for "Full & Equal: 50 Years in Pursuit of a Promise," a three-day conference starting Sept. 3 to commemorate the September 1976 passage of Resolution A069 to "recognize the equal claims of homosexuals," according to the Episcopal News Service.
The resolution, which was passed at the 65th General Convention in Minneapolis, affirmed "that it is the sense of this General Convention that homosexual persons are children of God who have a full and equal claim with all other persons upon the love, acceptance, and pastoral concern and care of the Church."
The resolution passed four years after the United Church of Christ (UCC) became the first denomination to ordain an openly gay minister in 1972, and came at a time of intense debate among Episcopalians over women's ordination and the Book of Common Prayer, which was ultimately revised in 1979 with modernized English.
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Episcopalians prepare to celebrate 50 years since landmark resolution on LGBT inclusion
The Episcopal Church is planning a multi-day event this fall to celebrate the 50th anniversary of a resolution to affirm homosexual members in the denomination
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