December 2011
New! Two additional Advisory Board members In Memory of Alice Kitchen Make a donation in appreciation of the Exec Dir Freedom of Religion and the Human Rights of LGBT people 2011 Latinas/os Report 2011 Europe Report 2011 Latin America Report 2011 Thailand Report Kimer Trip Report to Kenya & Rwanda Parelli/Ortiz Trip Report to India, Singapore & Nepal Allens, Atkins retire from board of directors
October 2011
By the Editors of Bloomberg, Oct 27, 2011 7:00 PM ET
personal faith into our civil laws - do you not hear the story of your Puritan forbearers? 22 For history tells us Boston had two sons, the one, John Cotton, tied to the old European mindset of a church-state paradigm, and the other, Roger Williams, born of the spirit of liberty, in which the church is free from the dictates of the state and the state of the dictates of the church. 23 Now, the former was born out of the . . . September 2011
have begun for the first time inside the conservative churches of Kerala, set in motion by Steve Parelli and Jose Ortiz from the US
on September 16, 2011, in Central Park, New York. Four friends of the bride and bride, three travelling from Singapore just for the occasion and a fourth a student at NYU, witnessed the marriage (along with some Muppets). The wedding ceremony, given the theme "authentically playful" by the bride and bride, was held at the Hans Christian Andersen statue, the famous Denmark writer of children's stories, near 72nd Street and East Drive, Central Park. Rev. Stephen Parelli, clergy member of Metropolitan Community Church of New York and member of The Riverside Church, New York, officiated.
August 2011
individual's life. In fact, the pastor who made the threat had inquired from the beginning, prior to his speaking with the victim, to learn if the person in question was an active Christian who was regularly involved with the life of his church. Once the accusing pastor had determined that the victim would indeed suffer if removed from the family life of his church, he handed down his apparent decision: complete ostracism."
Program: "Putting a Face on Homosexuality"
•Meet a gay Christian married couple from America •Receive your free copy of the recent translation into Nepali a paper on the author's experiences within the evangelical "ex-gay" movement - his evaluation, and how it did not work for him •Meet Other Sheep Coordinator for Nepal
Dear Christian Pastor, lay leader, and parishioner: According to one Internet report, just last Sunday, on 14 August, 2011,
demand equal rights under a new constitution the country is in the process of writing." The article goes on to say that this demonstration is the first of its kind outside of Kathmandu. The article also makes the claim that Nepal does, though a conservative county, accept homosexuality. This Other Sheep eNews that we are emailing to you invites you to visit with us, Rev. Steve Parelli and Jose Ortiz, a gay Christian couple from evangelical backgrounds, at some point during our time in Nepal. We are here until 1 September, 2011. You may phone us and make an appointment to see us in person (see our contact information below).
Community Church, Singapore. Ou Yang preached in the Sunday morning service, and we presented in the afternoon on "Is There Really Such a Thing as Ex-Gay?" Pastor Ou Yang has been impacting this part of Asian for years with his coming-out story as gay and clergy. We personally know Pastor Ou Yang from MCC-NY. We appreciate his ministry and work. This is our second time to be with him in Asia. Our first occasion was in 2009 in Malaysia. This morning we awoke in our Singapore hotel to the newspaper on our doorknob which contained this article!
a sheet of paper at the registration table in his own hand writing which he signed. It reads: "This meeting is absolutely important. For it is the first of its kind to happen in Kerala - where issues like sexuality, homosexuality, etc., are openly discussed - within a Christian Theological context." Signed, "MGRadhakrishnan"
Local university students have arranged to hear a USA married gay Christian couple ("husband and husband") tell their story on Monday, July 18, at 5:00PM, at the Dr. G. Nirmalam Memorial Hall Kerala Veterinarian's building on Dharmalayam Road near Ayurveda College, Trivandrum.
organization concerned, in part, with equipping the church to act and speak out on behalf of the marginalized of society, held its annual Young Lay Leaders Conference on July 7-9, 2011, in southern Kerala, India. Rev. Steve Parelli and Mr. Jose Ortiz, a "husband and husband" gay couple legally married in California in 2008, were the featured guest speakers. In his presentation, Rev. Parelli, formerly a Baptist minister, said . . . Citing the psychological research of Clock and Stark, Mr. Jose Ortiz, a school counselor in the public schools of New York City, said there are five dimensions of how people are religious: Intellectual, Experiential, Ideological, Ritualistic, and Consequence. . . .
Where I could not find, as a gay man, "Christian mercy" within my own evangelical Baptist denomination and within my own nuclear "born-again" Christian family, I have, instead, been handed justice from my secular State.
This is a press release from 17 organizations - see end of article for their info. Who voted how?
meet queer people as they begin their year-long travel. Check out, below, the names of the 16 countries they will be visiting, and if you have any suggestions regarding people you feel they should meet, please email them at jenniandlisa@outandaround.com May 2011
28. She is a journalist who will be going "beyond the headlines" to learn what positive attitudes there are in Uganda and Kenya towards LGBT people. If you have any leads that could help her with this project, or can offer yourself as an interviewee, I know she will appreciate it. Please email her at the following email address and tell her "Steve Parelli of Other Sheep" contacted you. Below is her email of introduction. Her email address is: naomi.abraham2010@gmail.com
March 2011
Leaders continue the vision and spirit of OSEA and OSK with new organization.
February 2011
and not at The Riverside Church as was originally announced. Please note the change of location.
2011, 4 PM --meeting in the sanctuary of All Souls Church, 1157 Lexington Ave., New York, NY-- by Rev. Stephen Parelli, Executive Director, Other Sheep January 2011
1157 Lexington Avenue (@ East 80 Street ). Date and Time: January 30, 2011, 4:00PM - 6:00PM. Officiating: Service will be conducted by The Right Reverend Stacy S. Latimer, Senior Pastor.
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that the view of the religious majority is not to be legislated onto the views and practices of the sexual minority. As long as a gay man or woman does not infringe upon the rights of other individuals, the homosexual (who is often Christian) has the same right as his heterosexual counterpart, to interpret the Bible according to his or her understanding and to answer only before God (and not to the government or to the church)." |
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