Our bisexual bishop!
At last we are beginning to see the public emergence of bisexuality within TEC, though in posthumous form. Over his lifetime, Bishop Paul Moore was married twice, fathered nine children and had a primary male lover, with others on the side (or so Honor Moore, his daughter, is told by the lover after her father’s death). The scandal appears to be that he kept his SS sex life in the closet, not that he was actively bisexual. If Paul were alive today, would he have the courage of his convictions and come ‘out’ – wife on one arm, lover on the other? I am sorry to keep going on so, but at some point the penny will have to drop. Bisexuality means emotionally and sexually relating to both sexes, sometimes chronologically, other times simultaneously. I have seen both in the relationships of my bisexual friends. This is what is clearly evident in Paul’s life, though hidden from our view. Is this really what TEC and Changing Attitude want to welcome openly into the church? If you listen to them then…yes, it is.
Thank you David Virtue
The N.Y. Times and the bisexual bishop by Les Kinsolving, 25 March 2008, WorldNetDaily.com
His biography on the Internet’s Wikipedia notes the following about the late Rt. Rev. Paul Moore: "During his lifetime he was perhaps the best-known Episcopal clergyman in the United States, and among the best-known Christian clergy in any denomination."
On March 3, 2008, the New York Times’ Paul Vitello reported, among other things:
"The disclosure this week that Paul Moore Jr., the late, revered Episcopal bishop who became a national figure of liberal Christian activism from the cathedral’s pulpit in the 1970s and ’80s, had lived a secret gay life.
"In an elegiac article in the March 3 issue of the New Yorker magazine titled "The Bishop’s Daughter," the poet Honor Moore describes her father, Bishop Moore, who died in 2003 at 83, as alternately passionate and elusive, capable of deep "religious emotion," yet just beyond her emotional reach. It was only after he died, she said, that she fully realized that he had had gay relationships during his two marriages, the first of which produced his nine children.
"Bishop Moore was a famously outspoken Christian voice. His truth-to-power pastoring spanned almost half a century, including as leader of the Episcopal Diocese of New York from 1972 until his retirement in 1989. He marched with the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., was among the early opponents of the Vietnam War, railed at presidents and mayors for ignoring the plight of the poor, and, shortly before his death, took the opportunity of his last sermon at St. John the Divine, the seat of the diocese at 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, to deliver a scathing attack on President Bush and the war in Iraq."
Read the rest here: http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=7973
For the Honor Moore’s essay, see ‘The Bishop’s Daughter: Personal History – Paul Moore
A father, a faith, and a secret’ by Honor Moore: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/03/03/080303fa_fact_moore
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