Anglican Communion News Service : USA : Court dismisses charges against Bishop Righter
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/article21708
- Material Type
- Journal Article
- Journal
- Anglican World
- Date
- 1996 Michaelmas
- Issue
- 83
- Page
- 38
- Notes
- On 15 May 1996, "an ecclesiastical court ruled that retired Bishop Walter Righter violated no Church law or `core doctrine' when he ordained a non-celibate homosexual man as a deacon." The court ruled that there is "no core doctrine prohibiting the ordination of a non-celibate homosexual person living in a faithful and committed sexual relationship with a person of the same sex".
- Subjects
- Righter, Walter C. (Walter Cameron), 1923-2011
- Ordination of gays - Episcopal Church
- Homosexuality - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Same sex unions - Religious aspects - Episcopal Church
- Ecclesiastical courts - Episcopal Church
- Episcopal Church - Doctrines
- Location
- General Synod Archives