Word: clergyman
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Some Protestant denominations have landed on the liberationist side. The Unitarian Universalists openly welcome gay clergy. The United Church of Christ, which in 1972 became the first major denomination to ordain an avowedly homosexual clergyman, subsequently stated that homosexual orientation is no barrier to ordination, leaving open the matter of ministers' active sexual behavior. The United Church of Canada is in an uproar over a similar policy issued last year...
...Another clergyman, who is a regional director of priestly education in one of the larger men's orders, explained to TIME the justification for his private homosexual life during recent years. "We'll never know what is right or wrong until we open up the issue and look at people's experiences," he said. "I don't see any contradiction between having an intimate relationship and a total commitment to Christ." This prominent priest said his superiors have been quietly aware of his long-running, but not live-in, relationship with a fellow gay. They expect him to be judicious...
...weekly show called Thoughts About the Eternal: Sunday Moral Sermon, which a layman had inaugurated the previous week. Pitirim's commentary, though as innocuous as a sermonette after an American late movie on television, was nonetheless historic: the first time in 72 years of Communist rule that a clergyman's sermon had been broadcast. Coming six weeks before President Mikhail Gorbachev's scheduled meeting with the Pope at the Vatican, the show underscored Soviet leaders' increasing tolerance of religious practice...
...with the text and texture of Olivier's life and career. He was the son of a fifth-generation Anglican clergyman, yet he found his soul upon the wicked stage. The foremost classical actor of his time, he attained his first eminence as a West End matinee idol, and his second as a Hollywood dreamboat in Wuthering Heights (1939) and Rebecca (1940). Though he pored over scripts like a new critical scholar, he was an irrepressibly physical stage performer, scaling balconies and executing dizzying falls with Fairbanksian elan. Like many men, Olivier housed a congeries of contradictions; uniquely, he transformed...
...clergyman or a judge. Ayatullah Khomeini is a believer, a Muslim holy man. What he says relies on Islamic principles and rules he believes in. He discusses matters in ways different from the way you and I discuss issues. There are Islamic provisions which apply to cases like that of Rushdie. But irrespective of other issues, Rushdie as a human being is a bad fellow, and his behavior provokes suspicion...