The Church of England is the midst of a plex and ght ternal bate over same-sex marriage and LGBT issu. Currently bans gay weddgs church and do not let clergy enter same-sex marriag eher, although some of s sister Church have permted this
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- C OF E MT WELE GAY PEOPLE OR FACE QUTNS PARLIAMENT, SAYS MP
- THE C OF E IS RIGHT TO PREVARITE ON GAY MARRIAGE
- GAY MARRIAGE
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
C OF E MT WELE GAY PEOPLE OR FACE QUTNS PARLIAMENT, SAYS MP
Labour’s Ben Bradshaw says church is ‘actively pursug a mpaign of discrimatn’ agast lbian and gay people * gay marriage in c of e *
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.
THE C OF E IS RIGHT TO PREVARITE ON GAY MARRIAGE
On Tuday morng was theology hour the Hoe of Commons. The Labour MP Ben Bradshaw had requted an urgent qutn on the Church of England’s latt prevaritn on homosexualy. Ahead of next month’s synod, the bishops have cid that gay marriage will not be up for discsn, even though a full bate was * gay marriage in c of e *
“I believe God has lled me to wns to beg a Christian who happens to be gay.
GAY MARRIAGE
The road to full marriage equaly for same-sex upl the Uned Stat was paved wh setbacks and victori. The landmark 2015 Supreme Court se Obergefell v. Hodg ma gay marriage legal throughout the untry. * gay marriage in c of e *
But I nnot ntue to endorse stutnal homophobia.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
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. 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.