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Contents:

• THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND ALLOWS GAY MEN TO BEE BISHOPS
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE

THE FIRST OPENLY GAY BISHOP IS A HUGE STEP FORWARD – BUT ’S NOT ENOUGH

Although ’s a huge step forward to see a gay bishop e out, the ongog problem is that only some gay upl are acceptable to the Church of England. This requirement utterly means gay relatnships.

I me out as gay 2014 and still rry the srs. One major reason is the current climate around gay clergy. For me, as an openly gay Christian who disagre wh enforced celibacy and believ prits should be able to marry, I fear I’d simply be openg myself up to further damage, discrimatn, and heartache.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

I worry that we are losg young people not jt om future clergy rol, but om even om stg the pews, due to our slow progrs on matters of g out, Chamberla said: “People know I’m gay, but ’s not the first thg I’d say to anyone. If the church wants to keep s current prits, and attract a new wave of recs, we need urgent progrs so that gay people feel safe wh s walls. Although Jt Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, recently affirmed the validy of a 1998 claratn that gay sex was a s, there are signs that the C of E may be movg towards allowg clergy to follow their nscience on the issue.

Anglin church the US, Stland and Canada have already moved to start nductg same-sex weddgs, while the church Wal has started offerg blsgs to married gay upl. Church of England prits will be permted to bls the civil marriag of same-sex upl a profound shift the church’s stance on homosexualy after a historic vote by s erng first blsgs for gay upl uld happen this summer. ”Nigel Pietroni, the chair of the Campaign for Equal Marriage the C of E, said the cisn “falls short of what we ultimately believe is the only oute for radil cln – equal marriage for all people”, but was “a small step forward” gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The offer of blsgs to same-sex partners is an sult.

The meetg as support for marriage for gay upl is growg wh the church, most notably among evangelil members of the epispate who have long opposed . This summer, at the Anglin Communn’s all-bishops meetg known as the Lambeth Conference, the current archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby, tried to mollify nservative bishops by reaffirmg a 1998 claratn that gay sex is a s, while reassurg liberals by sayg he would not punish natnal church the Communn that allow prits to marry same-sex upl. Conservative bishops om the global south lled Welby’s refal to disciple church over gay marriage “a lamentable posn, ” but none threatened to leave.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP

Clergy and parish who do not agree to gay marriage ought to have the right to “distance themselv om the parts of the Church that wele and affirm same-sex relatnship. At the same time, Chsun said, there are problems for those who are gay wh the Church of England, sayg is “not safe for those same-sex unns.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND ALLOWS GAY MEN TO BEE BISHOPS

The Church Wal offers blsgs to civilly married gay upl.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND CONMNS GAY CLERICS FOR OUTG PRITS AS BISHOPS PREP FOR LGBT DEBATE

[1/2]Demonstrators prottg agast a gay marriage bill hold plards outsi of the Ho of Parliament London June 3, 2013. "Same-sex upl would still not be able to get married a Church of England church, " the statement said, nfirmg a BBC report overnight that bishops had refed to support a change teachg to allow prits to marry gay the proposals, same-sex upl uld have a service which there would be "prayers of ditn, thanksgivg or for God's blsg on the uple" church after a civil marriage.

Gay marriage was legalised Bra , the prayers would be voluntary for clergy to e and uld be ed batns "reflectg the theologil diversy of the Church", the Church of England said, implyg spirual lears uld choose not to offer such blsgs. Separately, Church of England bishops will be issug an apology later this week to LGBTQI+ people for the "rejectn, excln and hostily" they have faced church, acrdg to the Church of England, which was found 1534, has been divid for years on how to al wh same-sex marriag, wh lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenr (LGBT) activists fightg for the same rights as heterosexual Christians.

Seekg to addrs the ntent issue, Welby lled on the bishops last year to "abound love for all", even as he backed the validy of a rolutn passed 1998 that rejected "homosexual practice as patible wh Scripture". The overwhelmg view of MPs on both sis of the hoe is that is not staable for our tablished church to be stutnally homophobic and to actively exclu a portn of the populatn, whom they have a duty to serve.