Anita C. Hill

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Anita Carol Hill (born 1951) is a LGBT American minister in the Lutheran Church. She is one of the first ordained lesbian women in the church and became a pastor before the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) changed its policy on LGBT ministers.

Early life and education[]

Hill was born in 1951 and was raised in the Roman Catholic faith in Shreveport, Louisiana.[1] As a young adult, she lived in Crystal Springs, Mississippi, and became involved in the United Methodist Church.[1] Hill attended Mississippi State University where she earned a bachelor's degree in science.[1] Hill went on to gain a master's degree in religious studies and a master of divinity degree from United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities and studied at Luther Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.[1]

Career[]

In the 1980s, Hill started out as a lay minister in the Saint Paul-Reformation Lutheran Church.[2] By the 1990s, her congregation wanted her to be ordained despite rules against lesbian pastors in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) at the time.[2] The church's head pastor, Paul Tidemann, created the goal for his church that it would have a non-celibate, openly gay minister by 1993.[3] Hill was an open lesbian in a committed relationship.[4] She was ordained on April 28, 2001,[5] within the Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries[6] but was later censured for her ordainment as an LGBT person.[7] On September 18, 2010, she was formally inducted into the ELCA Clergy Roster.[6] She left working at the church in 2012 and went on to fight a state constitutional amendment in her state which banned gay marriage.[2]

In 2012 Hill joined ReconcilingWorks as regional director for the St. Paul area and later became its deputy director.[8]

Hill was the subject of the 2003 documentary This Obedience, by filmmakers Jamie Lee and Dawn Mikkelson; the film chronicled Hill's openly gay status and the controversy it ignited within the church.[9]

Hill's papers are maintained for researchers by the Minnesota Historical Society at the Gale Family Library in St. Paul.[1]

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References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e Hill, Anita C. "Anita C. Hill papers". Minnesota Historical Society. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c Ruiz, Rebecca (15 September 2015). "Therefore I give: Women who feel called to serve the future". Mashable. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  3. ^ Smith, Mary Lynn (9 August 2014). "Paul Abbott Tidemann was hero in the LGBT community". Star Tribune. Retrieved 23 October 2017 – via EBSCOhost.
  4. ^ "Observances; June 24-30, 2000". Star Tribune. 24 June 2000. Archived from the original on 2017-10-24. Retrieved 23 October 2017 – via HighBeam Research.
  5. ^ Allen, Martha Sawyer (15 June 2001). "Gay Ordination Draws Censure". Star Tribune. Archived from the original on 2017-10-24. Retrieved 23 October 2017 – via HighBeam Research.
  6. ^ Jump up to: a b "Installation of Rev. Anita Hill". Extraordinary Lutheran Ministries. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  7. ^ "Anita Hill • Profile". LGBT-RAN. Retrieved 2017-10-23.
  8. ^ Baker, Zac (7 August 2015). "The Rev. Anita Hill Receives Lifetime Achievement Award". ReconcilingWorks. Retrieved 24 October 2017.
  9. ^ Harvey, Dennis (July 21, 2003). "This Obedience". Variety. Retrieved October 24, 2017.

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