In next week's issue of The New Yorker magazine, the daughter of Episcopal Bishop Paul Moore Jr. reveals that the man who was Bishop of New York for 17 years was gay.

According to an audio excerpt from the yet unpublished article, Honor Moore, the eldest of nine children the bishop had with his first wife, writes in the magazine that six months after her father's death in 2003, she received a phone call from her fathers male lover:

"[The caller] had a confident voice. Andrew Verver (as I'll call him) was the only person in my father's will whose name was unfamiliar.' When Honor asked 'Verver,' who had traveled with Moore to the Greek island of Patmos the summer before, about her father's sexual life, he replied, 'I was his sexual life,' and, 'Of course, there were other men.' Then, Honor describes bringing 'Verver' on a touching visit to Moore's grave in Connecticut."

Bishop Moore was known for his liberal activism and his outspokenness against homelessness, racism, and the rights of all people regardless of class, gender, ethnicity, or sexual orientation. He was the first Episcopal Bishop to ordain an openly homosexual woman as a priest in the church. His liberal political views were coupled with traditionalism when it came to the liturgy (Wikipedia).

Last update: 02-28-2008 12:51