Contents:
- GAY MARRIAG ULD BE NSIRED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
GAY MARRIAG ULD BE NSIRED AS SOON AS NEXT YEAR BY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
For same-sex upl, beg gay and beg a Christian don’t always f together easily, pecially when they are makg plans for their weddg day. It means the church uld be closer than ever to allowg gay upl to weddgs were ma legal England and Wal 2014, but those same laws also protected the Church of England’s right to NOT hold such ceremoni whout the fear of beg taken to urt unr equaly legislatn. I am gay and startg to thk about planng my own weddg and when people ask me what sort of ceremony I would like, I don’t yet have an answer bee I know that one optn that is not open to me is to have a ceremony my church.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
They both met through church but feel like on their weddg day last summer they had to choose between beg gay and beg a Christian bee, like any same-sex uple, they were not allowed to marry wh the Church of England. One of the those leadg the project is Canon Gil Goddard, vir of St John’s Waterloo who is himself gay and a civil partnership. 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 .
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
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. 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.
The Church Wal offers blsgs to civilly married gay upl. The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage.