U.K. Prime Mister Rishi Sunak has apologized for the treatment of gay veterans by sayg that a prev ban on LGBTQ+ people servg the U.K. ary was “an appallg failure of the Brish state.”
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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
- CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
- TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
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 * c of e gay *
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.
And not only that, but is actively homophobic, cel, hurtful and stutnally hostile.
THE C OF E IS RIGHT TO PREVARITE ON GAY MARRIAGE
As bishop of Grantham be first openly gay C of E bishop, church’s official le do not f realy among clergy * c of e gay *
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 has been nfed and dishont about homosexualy for most of the last 50 years, as stggled to e to terms wh femism and the sexual revolutn. The official le is that all sex outsi marriage is wrong, and that gay people n’t marry church.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK 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 * c of e gay *
Meanwhile, gay churchgoers are often weled and are equently married or partnered.
TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SETS SOCIAL MEDIA ALIGHT AFTER THE ACTOR SAID PLAYG THE ROLE ‘BROKE HIM’
I personally know one straight prit who has been three tim divorced, several gay and lbian upl the prithood, of whom some are celibate, one transsexual non, one formerly married uple both whom are now livg wh same sex partners ( one se remarried) along wh many entirely straight married monogamo posn is absurd, but is also the oute of a long polil stggle this untry and abroad which the acceptance of gay people beme the e on which nservativ focsed after they lost their fight agast the ordatn of women. Like that stggle, this was somethg which primarily affected the clergy: if lay people disagreed wh the church’s le they uld, and did, simply go somewhere the suatn has been peculiarly difficult to rolve bee gay people were always over-reprented among the clergy. As far back as 1994, 10 bishops were named as gay by the prsure group OutRage; all claimed to be celibate, if they rpond to the charge at all.
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 expected after six years of nsultatn.