A 目だつ Episcopal bishop ripped a 女性（の） 聖職者の's collar off after she 簡潔に forgot her words at an LGBT-friendly 復活祭 徹夜 that was emceed by a drag queen.
A ビデオ 逮捕（する）d the jaw-dropping moment when Bishop Alan M. Gates snatched the collar from Reverend Tamra Tucker's neck during the service at the Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on March 30.
He has now been branded a misogynist and 軍隊d into a groveling 陳謝 over the 出来事/事件, which was live-streamed online.?
In the （映画の）フィート数, Rev. Tucker, who is the leader of The Crossing, an LGBTQ-inclusive congregation, explained to the attendees that they will now be 'communing' with one another.
'It's going to go very 簡単に,' the reverend said as she began to break 負かす／撃墜する the 儀式 to the audience, which consisted of several congregations and other Protestant denominations.
Bishop Alan Gates (in white chasuble) ripped the clerical collar from Rev. Tamra Tucker's neck after Tucker (left of Gates) forgot the words to the church service
'We're going to 許す somebody to take their own piece of bread, and you will say to the person taking the bread this.'
At this point in the ビデオ, Rev. Tucker 明らかに forgot the words for the 儀式.?
She looked at the Bishop, and then turned to the （人が）群がる and said with her palms up: 'Wait what is it? I've been gone for a while.'
Then she seemed to remember the words and said with 明白な 救済: 'The 団体／死体 of Christ.'
The reverend smiled, and the people standing on the 演壇 behind her laughed.?
'It's very simple. The 団体／死体 of Christ, that's all you got to do,' Rev. Tucker said.
Moments later, Bishop Gates, who had been smiling good-naturedly at her 簡潔な／要約する gaffe, 肺d toward her and pulled the reverend's clerical collar from her neck.
People 最初 laughed boisterously at the surprise gesture. A woman at the end of the 演壇 星／主役にするd with her jaw open, and the drag queen clapped.
Reverend Tucker appeared to be annoyed, and Bishop Gates, realizing that he had crossed a line, returned the collar to her.?
'Just kidding,' the bishop said.?
'Thank you,' the reverend said as the bishop put his arm around her should apologetically.
People 最初 laughed but soon after the 行為／法令／行動する, the church was 静かな and individuals were visibly uncomfortable with the 行為／法令／行動する
Bishop Gates jokingly 除去するd Tucker's collar after she momentarily forgot her lines?
Reverend Tucker hasn't spoken 公然と about the 出来事/事件 yet, and it is 不明瞭な whether or not she's 受託するd his 陳謝?
But the church was silent and the other people on the 演壇 appeared to be uncomfortable.?
'Dang,' Reverend Tucker said, stunned by what had just happened.?
After the 出来事/事件, the reverend proceeded with the 儀式 but her shock appeared to ぐずぐず残る.
Bishop Gates's 活動／戦闘, playful in 意向, 怒り／怒るd members of the 約束 and has now become a 十分な-blown 論争.?
Rev. Rita Powell, chaplain for the Harvard Episcopal Community, told the Boston Globe, 'It was just really sad that an occasion that is supposed to be joyous had to be 示すd by the specter of long-称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 misogyny that is pretty 必須の to Christianity, even in a church that feels like it has 前進するd past that.'?
The highest 最高位の 公式の／役人 in the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, Bishop Gates 解放（する）d a formal 陳謝 on April 12, nearly two weeks after the 出来事/事件 occurred. He has led the diocese, which 含む／封じ込めるs 180 congregations, since 2014.
Bishop Gates referred to his 活動／戦闘 as 'an instant of altogether misguided mischief.'?
The penitent bishop 観察するd that Rev. Tucker 'had a moment ? familiar to every worship leader ? in which she blanked on the next line.'
The woman on the far 権利 laughed in amazement, and the drag queen, who emceed the event, laughed too
Bishop Gates said that 除去するing her clerical collar was 'a 破滅的な and demeaning 行為／法令／行動する, which I 悔いる with all my heart.'
The spiritual leader called Rev. Tucker 'a valued 同僚 and 罰金 priest whose leadership it has been my 栄誉（を受ける） to 断言する.'
He 明言する／公表するd その上の 明言する／公表するd that it 'was not and would never be' his 意向 to humiliate the reverend.
'By my 活動／戦闘 I misused my 当局, failed to 延長する episcopal grace, and transgressed personal space and 境界s. I am 深く，強烈に sorry.'
Reverend Tucker hasn't spoken 公然と about the 出来事/事件 yet, and it is 不明瞭な whether or not she's 受託するd his 陳謝.
Tracy J. Sukraw, a spokesperson for the Episcopal Diocese of Massachusetts, said that the bishop was contrite and had reached out to the reverend 'to 表明する his 悔いる and 捜し出す to make 修正するs.'
The bishop seemed to 悔いる his 活動／戦闘 すぐに. He said he was joking and put his arm around the reverend's shoulders
'It was in the light-hearted 状況 of a 非，不，無-伝統的な service, but it was ill-considered, and no one thinks it was a good thing to have done, 含むing Bishop Gates,' Sukraw said.
'His sincere 願望（する） is to make 陳謝 and 修理, and that is what he's now working to do.?
深い尊敬の念を抱くd Rita Powell agreed that Bishop Gates's 意向 was not to humiliate Rev. Tucker, but that the circumstances of his 活動／戦闘 made it 'an 行為／法令／行動する of 象徴的な 暴力／激しさ.'
The day after the 出来事/事件, Reverend Jay Williams, who is the lead 牧師 of Union 連合させるd Parish, where Rev. Tucker's wife is an (n)役員／(a)執行力のある 牧師, 非難するd Bishop Gates's 活動／戦闘.
Rev. Williams said that the 出来事/事件 was an example of 'violent patriarchy and sexism.'
The reverend reproached Gates, 説 that he 'literally stripped' the reverend 'of her clergy collar in public.'
'The male bishop tried to say it was a joke and わびる in public, but it’s no joking 事柄 when a man 公然と 侵害する／違反するs the personal space of a woman and symbolically （土地などの）細長い一片s her of her 調印する of 聖職拝命（式）,' the reverend fulminated.
The service continued without a hitch after the 出来事/事件. But the bishop's 活動／戦闘 drew serious 批評 from other members in the 宗教的な community
Reverend Karen Coleman, speaking on に代わって of the Standing 委員会 of the Diocese of Massachusetts, 公然と defended the 戦闘の準備を整えた bishop, あられ／賞賛するing him as 'a conscientious and compassionate 牧師 and 同僚.'
Rev. Coleman 明言する／公表するd that Bishop Gates has been 'a 一貫した 支持者 and 同盟（する） of the Rev. Tamra Tucker, The Crossing congregation that she 牧師s, and groups who are on the 利ざやs.'?
In his 陳謝, Bishop Gates said: 'I 延長する my 悔恨 and 陳謝 to the Rev. Tamra Tucker; to the Crossing community; to the Cathedral community; to other communities 現在の; to ecumenical companions who had joined us at the 徹夜; and to those in the wider church and community whom I have 傷つける.'?
'In our baptismal covenant we 誓約（する） to “尊敬（する）・点 the dignity of every human 存在.” I 捜し出す forgiveness for my 失敗 to keep this 誓約（する）, and God’s grace to 新たにする that かかわり合い.'
