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LGBTQ+ issues are certainly front and center of the church’s agenda, making news and headlines daily.
Over the past few years, members of the LGBTQ Catholic community around the globe have been watching how Germany’s church leaders, organizations, and laity are leading the way on progressive measures for LGBTQ equality. Inevitably, the question arises: “How is that happening there when in other places we still struggle?”
LGBTQ church workers in Germany continue to explain their participation in #OutInChurch, an initiative in which 125 such workers publicly came out in a call for non-discrimination. Today’s post features two such workers, as well as other news updates from the German church.
Vicars general from various German dioceses have sent a letter to the country’s episcopal conference asking for immediate protections for LGBTQ church workers as labor law reforms are worked out.
A German bishop has issued a written commitment that church workers will not be fired because they are LGBTQ. Today’s post includes this story and other updates from Germany.
In Germany, thousands of people have signed a petition supporting the #OutInChurch initiative at the same time the LGBTQ church workers involved keep speaking out. And support from Catholic groups is growing, too.