RELIGION:
UNITED
There are quite a number of articles in the church organ, the United
Church Observer, which the user should examine more carefully for
a more detailed picture of the flow of the story regarding same-sex
issues. This list attempts to point out some of what seem to be highlights
or summary presentations noted during searching, and what is included
here is certainly not a comprehensive listing of published items in that periodical.
Allen, David.
“Gay
Ordination Draws Broad Criticism.” United
Church Observer 51(11)
(May
1988): 10-12.
Arnold, Abraham.
“Sex,
Politics and Religion.” NeWest Review
14(1) (Oct./Nov. 1988): 24-27.
Gays;
Bandy, Thomas G.
“The United
in North American
Churches, 1988-1995: Controversies, Unresolved
Issues, Future Prospects,
pagination not known. Edited by John
Jesse Carey
and Victor Paul Furnish.
Ref.: OCLC catalog record, accession no. 31328897.
Barber, J.
“Affirming
the Status Quo.” Maclean’s,
August 27, 1984, p. 47.
Bird, John.
“In
the Pews, Life Goes On.” United Church Observer 61(9) [62(2)]
(Sept.
1998): 25-27.
Clergy;
Boyle, Sally M., 1952-
Embracing
the Exile: A Lesbian Model of Pastoral Care.
Artemis
Enterprises; Etobicoke, Ont.: The United Church Publishing House,
1995.
(144
p.; ISBN 1895247128 [Artemis]; 155134047X [United Church Pub.])
See
also the listing in VIDEOS section of A Lesbian in the Pulpit, about
Sally
Boyle.
“Celebration or Sin? A Same-Sex Covenant.” United
Church Observer 56(2)
(Aug.
1992): 12-13.
Trinity
United,
“Church Rejects Change on Homosexual
Issue.” Globe and Mail, August
14, 1984,
pp.
1, 2.
Regarding
ordination of gays.
“Clerics Stay in Closet despite United
Signal: In 1988, the Church Decided
to
Fling Open Its Doors but Today There Is Scant Evidence That
Congregations
Accept Practicing Gays.” Globe and
Mail [Metro ed.],
October
2, 1995, pp. A1, A6.
Corbett, Ron.
“A
Church Divided.”
Question of ordaining homosexuals;
United Church of Canada.
“Council Affirms Equal Marriage Policy.” United Church Observer 70(3)
(October 2006): 34.
“Delay Asked on Gay Ordination Issue.” United Church Observer 50(7)
(Jan.
1987): 13.
“Does a Lesbian Belong in the Pulpit?” Chatelaine, May 1989, pp. 125, 127+.
About
United Church.
Duncan, Muriel.
“Church
Faces a Prolonged Struggle.” United
Church Observer 52(7)
(Jan.
1989): 8-13.
Question
of ordination of gays and lesbians.
Duncan, Muriel.
“Council
Affirms MMHS, Extends Olive Branch.” United
Church Observer
54(3)
(Sept. 1990): 10-13.
MMHS
is “Membership, Ministry and Human Sexuality,” which
appears
to be a report. Compiler has not
verified.
Duncan, Muriel.
“A
Decision to Live with Ambiguity.” United
Church Observer 52(4)
(Oct.
1988): 13-20.
Concerns
sexual orientation.
Duncan, Muriel.
“Gay
Ordination Moves One Step Closer.” United
Church Observer 51(9)
(March
1988): 8-9.
Duncan, Muriel.
“The
Issue, 10 Years On: The Clamor of
Prevails.” United Church Observer 61(9) [62(2)]
(Sept. 1998): 24.
Clergy;
gays;
Duncan, Muriel.
“A
Search for Common Ground on Gay Issue.” United
Church Observer 52(1)
(July
1988): 13-14.
“Equal Marriage: Chronology of Marriage and Equality Rights in the United
Church.”
Electronic document at:
http://www.united-church.ca/humanrights/equal/chronology
(viewed
“Ex-Gay Leader ‘Falls off Wagon’.” United Church Observer 50(12)
(June
1987): 33.
Gault, John.
“Sin
and the Liberal Conscience: Disunity in the United Church over Gay and
Lesbian
Ordination.”
“Gay and Lesbian Ordination: What Our Readers
Say.” United Church Observer
51(12)
(June 1988): 10-11.
“Gay Blessings Recognized [General Council meeting].” United Church Observer
64(3) (October 2000): 19-20.
“Gay Ordination Issue Still Hot.” United Church Observer 50(4)
(Oct. 1986): 18.
Halfnight, Drew.
“Affirming Conference Makes United Church History.”
United Church Observer 72(1) (July-August 2008): 36+ (2 pages)
Hay, Eldon.
“Homophobia
in a
Ethics, 1996-1997, 23-24, 28-36.
Citation
presented exactly as it appears in Sociological
Abstracts (accession no. 9713917). Compiler uncertain if 23-24 is
pagination or issue numbers, and was unable to verify.
“Examines the ways in which religious institutions both resist
& reinforce cultural norms & taboos. A case study is presented that
focuses on the debate over the ordination of self-professed homosexuals
in the United
Sackville
Tribune-Post, published in
from Sociological Abstracts.
Hay, Eldon.
“A Pastor’s Predicament: I Am a Committed Church Person and It Hurts
Me to Operate Solo.” Maclean’s [Toronto ed.] 114(47) (Nov.
19, 2001): 14
(839 words).
United Church;
Huntly, Alyson C.
Daring
to Be United: Including Lesbians and Gays in the United Church
of
(182
p.; ISBN 1551340828)
Review:
Quill & Quire 64(12) (Dec. 1998): 21
(338 words).
Huntly, Alyson C.
Of Love and Justice: Toward the Civil Recognition of Same-sex Marriage.
[Writer: Alyson C. Huntly; developed by the Justice, Global, and Ecumenical
Relations Unit of the United
and Ecumenical Relations Unit, The United Church of Canada, c2003.
(84 p.)
Religious and
legal/legislative aspects of same-sex marriage in
Brief review by Janet Silman, United Church Observer 67(10)
(May 2004): 45 (as referenced in CPI.Q index)
Jewell, Sara.
“Hate and Intolerance Are the New Abominations. Love Helps Eliminate
Them.” United Church Observer 68(10) (May 2005): 32
Johnson, Fredrick Boyd.
“Religion,
Modernity and Homosexual Ordination in a Liberal Protestant
Denomination.” MA thesis,
(114
p.)
“Research
involved a survey questionnaire completed by members/
adherents
of a United Church of Canada congregation in
“Keepers of the Keys: The Issue That Unites a
BC Congregation.”
Maclean’s,
May 1, 1989, p. 20.
Port
Kells and
Lefevere, Patricia.
“The
Man Amid the Furore [Furor?].” United
Church Observer 61(9) [62(2)]
(Sept.
1998): 53-54.
Gays;
United Church; John S. Spong.
Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Persons in Ministry: Consultation Report.
Division
of
Education, United Church of Canada; edited by Ken DeLisle.
(56 p.)
“A Long and Unsettling Journey.” United Church Observer 56(7) (Jan.
1993): 10-14.
Tim Stevenson and gay ministers.
McFarlane, Deborah.
“The
Question of the Ordination of Self-Declared Homosexual Persons: A Study
of
the
Modernity.” MA thesis, Queen’s University, 1990.
(120
p.)
McIver, Mary.
“Sexual
Orientation and the Pulpit.” Maclean’s,
May 30, 1988, pp. 48, 50.
Concerning
of Sexual Orientations, Lifestyle and
Ministry.”
“Membership, Ministry and Human Sexuality: A
New Statement of the United
(Oct.
1988): 44-45.
Moriyama, Margaret, and Smith, Robert.
“My
Bible Tells Me Gay Ordination Is Wrong/Right.”
United
Church Observer 51(11) (May 1988): 38-40.
Two
opposing viewpoints.
“An Old Issue with a New Twist.” United Church Observer 56(1) (July
1992): 10-13.
United
Church and homosexuality.
“Openly Gay Minister Ordained.” Globe and Mail, May 25, 1992, p. A5.
Timothy Stevenson in
“Our Issue Now an Issue for Anglicans Too.”
United
Church Observer 55(11) (May 1992): 21-22.
Concerns
gay ordination.
“Panel Upholds Marriage Ruling.” United Church Observer 68(4) (Nov. 2004):19
Pifer, John.
“A
Church Divided.” Maclean’s,
September 5, 1988, p. 56.
About
the
“The Report:
(Feb.
1989): 11.
About
Riordon, Michael, 1944-
The
First Stone: Homosexuality and the United Church.
(301
p.; ISBN 0771075227)
Reviews:
Stan Persky, Canadian Forum 69 (793) (Oct. 1990): 30-31, and
Presbyterian
Record 116 (11) (Dec. 1992): 34.
Rumscheidt, Barbara.
“Institutionalized Heterosexism.” M.T.S. thesis, Atlantic School of Theology,
1990.
(ca. 203
leaves)
Rumscheidt, Barbara.
“Institutionalizing
Christian Heterosexism in Maritime Conference of the
United
19
(3-4) (1990): 75-80.
“Recounts
how beginning in the mid-1980’s the Maritime Conference
of
the
homosexuals
from the ministry” – abstract from America: History and
Life
index.
Rumscheidt, Barbara, and Lloyd, Betty Ann.
“A
Church Un-United.” Broadside: A
Feminist Review 10(2) (Nov. 1988): 3, 5.
Concerns
United Church and gays.
“Same-Sex Civil Unions in Quebec [Montreal Presbytery].” United Church Observer
66(4)(November
2002): 18
“Same-sex Ruling Appealed.” United Church Observer 67(6) (Jan. 2004): 20
Ref.: CPI.Q index, which notes that this is appeal of General
Council’s ruling on same-sex marriage.
“Sexuality Issue Enters a Crucial New Phase
[United Church].”
United
Church Observer 53(5) (Nov. 1989): 12-13.
Shapiro, Ivor.
“The
Benefit of the Doubt.” Saturday Night,
April 1990, pp. 32-40.
About
gay ordination and the United Church of Canada.
Short, Peter.
“United Church Moderator Writes to MPs on Same-sex Marriage.”
Catholic New Times 29(3) (
Sinclair, Donna.
“Despite Advances, Gays, Lesbians Need Safe Place.” United Church Observer
65(2)
(September 2001): 14-15.
Sinclair, Donna.
“For
Some, A New Openness; For Others, The Closet Stays Shut.”
United
Church Observer 61(9) [62(2)] (Sept. 1998): 27-29.
Gays;
clergy; United Church.
Sinclair, Donna.
“Private
Lives, Public Vows: Covenant Ceremonies Offer Gay and Lesbian
Couples
Support, Celebration and a Sense of Community.”
United
Church Observer 60(5) (Dec. 1996):
39-41.
Sinclair, Donna.
“Talking
Sex: A Struggle for Dialogue.” United
Church Observer 50(12)
(June
1987): 32-33.
Sinclair-Faulkner, Tom.
“Sexual
Orientation and the United Church of Canada.”
The
Christian Century [Chicago] 101 (Aug. 8, 1984): 734+.
“Somewhere for Teens to Turn.” United Church Observer 66(9) (April 2003):
40+ (2 pages).
Squire, Anne M.
“Homosexuality,
Ordination and the United Church of Canada.”
Queen’s
Quarterly 98(2) (Summer 1991): 338-352.
“A Time for Caution and Conciliation.” United Church Observer 53(1)
(July
1989): 9-10.
Membership,
Ministry, and Human Sexuality statement.
“To Exclude or Not to Exclude.” United Church Observer 53(9)
(March
1990): 9-11.
Debate
on ordination and commissioning of practising homosexuals
by the
United Church.
Together
in Faith: Inclusive Resources about Sexual Diversity for Study, Dialogue
Celebration, and Action. Mary Anne MacFarlane, editor/consultant; Bryan
Teixeira, editor/writer; Maeve Wells, illustrations. Toronto: United Church
of Canada, Division of Mission in Canada, c1995.
(58 p.; ISBN 0886223334)
“The United Church and Sexual
Orientation.” Briarpatch
[Saskatchewan]
18(8) (Oct. 1989): 24-25.
United
Toward a
Christian Understanding of Sexual Orientation, Lifestyles and
Ministry:
Recommendations and Report to the 32nd General Council from the
Division
of Ministry Personnel and Education and the Division of
S.l.: United
(ca. 118 p.)
Contents:
III. Dissenting Statements – IV. Special Appendix from the Joint
Meeting – V. Attachments from the Report of the NGC for
Information Only.
United
on Sexual Orientations, Lifestyles and Ministry.
Sexual Orientations. Lifestyles and Ministry. Kit 1: Dialogue.
(1 vol., various pagings)
United
on Sexual Orientations, Lifestyles and Ministry.
Sexual Orientations. Lifestyles and Ministry. Kit 2: Dialogue.
(1
vol., various pagings)
“United Church Study Rejects Ordination of
Homosexuals.” Globe and Mail,
February
28, 1984, p. 3.
“A Welcome Unrealized.” United Church Observer 52(11) (May
1989): 43-45.
Lesbians/gays
in the
Wilson, David.
“Differences Linger on Marriage.” United Church Observer 68(10)
(May 2005): 16+ (2 pages)
Wilson, David.
“ ‘In Line’ with Same-sex Ruling.” United Church Observer 68(7)
(February 2005): 41+ (2 pages)