Thomas Gumbleton Gumbleton has discussed how he had previously ignored the topic; however his brother's revelation, he said, forced him to consider the matter. Gumbleton has consistently been a supporter of New Ways Ministry and has also called for homosexual priests and bishops to "come out" and be truthful to themselves and others. During his time as bishop, Gumbleton wore a mitre at a church service on which were symbols of the cross, a rainbow and a pink triangle. The pink triangle caused particular complaints by some due to its history as a symbol of gay rights, after its use to identify
9-j symbol diagonal as well as even permutations of its rows or columns: An odd permutation of rows or columns yields a phase factor formula_27, where For example: The 9-"j" symbols can be calculated as sums over triple-products of 6-"j" symbols where the summation extends over all admitted by the triangle conditions in the factors: When formula_31 the 9-"j" symbol is proportional to a 6-j symbol: The 9-"j" symbols satisfy this orthogonality relation: The "triangular delta" is equal to 1 when the triad ("j", "j", "j") satisfies the triangle conditions, and zero otherwise. The 6-j symbol is the first representative, , of