Gay Bishop Gene Robinson Inspires Hong Kong

Fridae.com reports that Gay Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson paid a surprise visit to Hong Kong last week, inspiring LGBT and Ally people alike, and responding to vitriolic questioning with grace and dignity.

He had been invited by a group of liberal Christians (the Hong Kong Christian Institute, the Hong Kong Women’s Christian Council and the [interfaith] Spiritual Seekers Society) plus the Hong Kong University’s Faculty of Education, to bring his experiences of fighting homophobia and discrimination to Hong Kong and to meet some of the local Gay Christians and hear their stories.

Attendees were warned of the "threat that ‘evangelical intransigence and intolerance’ would infect a Chinese world in which there had always been a tolerance for sexual divergence." 

At the root of his message was his belief in the absolute need for honesty, an issue, of course, which is of clear relevance to the largely closeted society of Hong Kong. “When someone will not acknowledge what I am, that hurts me,” he said. We had to work “to get to the place where we honour the choices other people make.”  Read the full story at Fridae.com