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Contents:

• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• C OF E MT WELE GAY PEOPLE OR FACE QUTNS PARLIAMENT, SAYS MP
• CONGRS NSIRS DIFYG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER LONG BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS
• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

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.

“I believe God has lled me to wns to beg a Christian who happens to be gay. But I nnot ntue to endorse stutnal homophobia. The Church of England mt move swiftly to wele lbian and gay people and embrace same-sex marriage or face mountg qutns parliament about s role as the tablished church of the untry, a senr MP has church was “actively pursug a mpaign of discrimatn” agast lbian and gay people that was patible wh s role as a church for England, said Ben Bradshaw, the Labour MP for Exeter and a former secretary of state for culture, media and was prompted to speak out after the C of E barred the late archbishop Dmond Tutu’s dghter, an ordaed Anglin prit, om officiatg at her godfather’s funeral last month bee she is a same-sex Tutu van Furth was forced to hold the funeral service a marquee next to St Michael and All Angels church Wentnor, Shropshire.

C OF E MT WELE GAY PEOPLE OR FACE QUTNS PARLIAMENT, SAYS MP

But celty like that is practised on lbian and gay people the church all the time, every day – people you never hear about the headl, people whose liv are stroyed – and n’t go on, ” said C of E “enjoys extraordary and unique privileg s role the natn’s life”, he said, cg the 26 seats the Hoe of Lords rerved for Anglin bishops. It’s creasgly obv that the C of E is not there for lbian and gay people. And not only that, but is actively homophobic, cel, hurtful and stutnally hostile.

CONGRS NSIRS DIFYG SAME-SEX MARRIAGE AFTER LONG BATTLE FOR GAY RIGHTS

"It both reflects and accelerat the profound transformatn of hearts and mds, as well as law and polics, around the treatment of gay people, " says gay rights advote Evan Wolfson who found the anizatn Freedom to Marry.

Nancy Mace, who voted favor of RMA the Hoe, reflected the sentiments when she said, "There are gay nservativ out there.

In the wake of the 1969 Stonewall rts, the morn Amerin gay rights movement gaed momentum, wh lears like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. In 2003, gay rights advot celebrated a w when the Supreme Court stck down sodomy laws the Lawrence v.

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

And a turng pot the fight for gay rights.

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