latent filthy disease ridden queer...
Posted on 02/28/2008 6:20:04 PM PST by dynachrome
-- MANY Episcopalians are reeling from the news in this week's New Yorker that the late Bishop Paul Moore - the 6-foot-5 patrician whose political activism drove many parishioners from the church - was a closeted homosexual who had a gay lover for the last 30 years of his life. While the Episcopal Church has embraced gays and ordained lesbian priests, Moore's secret life came as a shock. Moore - who made the cover of Newsweek in 1972, when he took over the Archdiocese of New York - died in May 2003. His daughter, Honor Moore, the eldest of nine children he had with his first wife, Jenny McKean, writes that six months after his death, "the telephone rang. [The caller] had a confident voice. Andrew Verver (as I'll call him) was the only person in my father's will whose name was unfamiliar." When Honor asked "Verver," who had traveled with Moore to the Greek island of Patmos the summer before, about her father's sexual life, he replied, "I was his sexual life," and, "Of course, there were other men." Then, Honor describes bringing "Verver" on a touching visit to Moore's grave in Connecticut.
(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...
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Why you can’t play chess with an Episcoplian - they can’t tell a bishop from a queen.
lol
But But But Wait! There’s more!!
I wish the article says more about his political activism, wheter he was for gay marriages, etc., or he actually was one of the conservatives.
I once met Bishop Moore at a dinner party in New York. I find this easy to believe.
I’ve also met and conversed with the former Dean of his Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York—sometimes known as St. John the Unfinished—James Morton. He was the guy who organized stuff like the blessing of the animals, and the female figure displayed on a crucifix, presumably with the Bishop Moore’s approval.
It’s a sad business. I attended an Episcopal prep school, and our choir came down to the city and gave a performance in the cathedral back in the 1950s. I still have a recording of that performance. It is a stunningly beautiful gothic building—but never finished, and apparently never going to be finished.
And since those earlier years, it has been profaned by the bizarre antics that have taken place under that bishop and that dean.
latent filthy disease ridden queer...
My cousin who is an Episcopal priest & Yale grad said that years ago nearly everyone in the Episcopal Church (not to mention his fellow Trustees at Yale) knew the Rt. Reverend was an also Archpoofter ...
Bump for later reading!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Moore
http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/comment-milton052303.asp
“He was the first Episcopal bishop to ordain an openly homosexual woman as a priest in the church. In his book, Take a Bishop Like Me (1979), he defended his position by arguing that many priests were homosexuals but few with the courage to acknowledge it.”
After 9/11:
“Characteristically, Moore wasted no time reminiscing about the past. Instead, he used the occasion to lambast George W. Bush. “It appears we have two types of religion here,” he said. “One is a solitary Texas politician who says, ‘I talk to God and I am right’; the other involves millions of people of all faiths who disagree.” Moore professed to find such rhetoric “terrifying,” adding: “I believe it will lead to a terrible crack in the whole culture we have come to know.”
Of course, Bishop Moore was never reluctant to generate controversy. Longtime New Yorkers may recall that in 1970, he sponsored an antiwar rally at the cathedral, featuring the performance of a skit by Norman Mailer so riddled with obscenities that playwright Tennessee Williams walked out in protest. (Moore did intervene when a group of bare-chested men waving Viet Cong flags attempted to storm the altar.)”
I almost spit tea all over my computer screen. Gee, thanks. ;-)
Heck, the guy had nine kids! Surely he was Bi-Sexual, not purely homosexual?
No, he was far to the Left on many political issues, and applied standards of leftist political activism to many of the purely religious issues of canon law within the Episcopal church. He, and the political movement within the Episcopal Church of the US that he was typical of, drove me and thousands of others from the Church in the 70’s, and led to the founding of communions such as the Anglican Church of North America
By “those days,” I mean in the 60’s, when he was Suf. Bishop of the Archdiocese of Washington.
I went to Episcopal schools from nursery school through high shool. But I left the church when they started to embrace this crazy stuff.
Of course Moore would think the President terrifying, since, I'm sure, Moore believed that only he and his friends were right about everything, and all the others were unsophisticated boobs.
So the daughter took her father's homosexual lover (though, apparently, not his exclusive homosexual lover) of 30 years on a touching visit to his graveside? Sounds like she knew all along that her father was unfaithful to her mother, but it doesn't seem to bother her in the slightest. Strange.
Gee, what a shock-—NOT!
Look, does any of this surprise you? Liberal and more liberal....try looking at Christ Church Cathedral in Lexington, they are now having the husband of the Rev. Canon Miskelley teach classes about evolution, nice huh?
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