James Ferry (priest)

James Ferry (born 1952) is a Canadian Anglican priest who became a central figure in the struggle of LGBTQ+ inclusion within the church due to his sexual orientation as a gay man. The issues surrounding Ferry arose in the early 1990s when he was publicly defrocked by the Anglican church after being outed by Archbishop Terence Finlay, who ordered him to end his relationship with his partner. After Ferry's refusal, Finlay took him to a bishop's court and had his license as a priest revoked. Ferry wrote a memoir titled In the Courts of the Lord: A Gay Minister’s Story in response to this, detailing the spiritual, personal, and professional hardships caused by the church’s position on homosexuality, and how he has overcome those struggles in years following.