Gene Robinson was the first openly gay priest in the Episcopal Church and he became the ninth bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
Robinson will be in Louisville Tuesday speaking at duPont Manual High School's “Consider This” series. He'll discuss his LGBT activism and how religion is slowly changing its view on homosexuality.
Robinson spoke with me about his role in changing attitudes and what he sees in the future for the LGBT community now that Donald Trump will be the next president.
Listen to our conversation in the player above.
On why LGBT people fear a Donald Trump presidency:
"LGBT people are quite frightened that the protections put in place for jobs and for, just basic safety, that were put in place by President Obama by executive order will be reversed by President Trump. And so we have to have, I think, a whole new kind of vigilance about those protections being rolled back."
On the pace at which views about LGBT people are changing in the religious community:
"Well of course, as a gay man I would love to see it accelerate. But I also understand as a bishop of the church that these negative views and understandings of human sexuality have existed for literally thousands of years. And so that's not going to happen overnight, and indeed the kind of change that we've seen has happened really in a very small amount of time. So I try to be patient even though I'd like to see it go faster."
More information about Bishop Robinson's visit to Louisville can be found here.
