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class="ka64y">It's about the way the church treat all gay and lbian people</p><footer class="_2pxnR"><ce class="WTLsF">Father Andrew Forhew-Ca</ce></footer></blockquote><p class="BVYCX">The first Church of England vir a same-sex marriage is leavg his parish and claims "stutnal homophobia" means he is blacklisted om gettg another job the church.</p><p class="BVYCX">Father Andrew Forhew-Ca rigned om his parish to move closer to Manchter, where his hband is workg.</p><p class="BVYCX">He says he is unable to keep on beg a prit his new area bee "the stutnal homophobia of the church mak impossible".</p><p class="BVYCX">We were also joed by Sie Leafe who fend the church and told that "the church treats gay and straight people exactly the same".</p><p class="BVYCX">Watch the full discsn above.</p><p class="BVYCX"><b>You might also be terted :</b></p><p class="BVYCX"><a class="qNUzV" data-ttid="next-lk-anchor" href="/goodmorngbra/news/mart-lewis-money-savg-als-thursday-3-march">Could marriage 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A gay prit om Deviz is planng to 'marry' his 25 year-old boyiend whout the blsg of the church.

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I AM A GAY VIR AND THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND IS AN EMBARRASSG MS

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 * gay vicar church of england *

Father Krysztof Olaf Charamsa (L), who works for a Vatin office, hugs his partner Edouard durg a prs nference to reveal his homosexualy Rome, Italy, October 3, 2015.

This week the Church of England found self a very publicly difficult suatn about sexualy— the end of Augt, Bishop Nicholas Chamberla, the Bishop of Grantham, me out as the first openly gay bishop wh a partner. We now know that the Archbishop of Canterbury knew about this and ed had them both round for dner; the Bishop of Lln knew, and ed the prs office at Church Hoe knew—'s jt that they uldn't bear to thk that anyone else would weekend has also seen the publishg of an open letter om 14 of the married gay and lbian clergy of the Church of England, and other some married lay people, to our bishops.

I had been wh my hband for 15 years before we uld marry, and beg married has ma a real difference—somehow the whole relatnship feels more solidly ground and we rejoice that official posn is that lay people n pretty much do as they please, though the Church ensured that is impossible for gay upl to legally marry a Church of England parish and lol clergy are banned om offerg servic of blsg, such as those given to Prce Charl and Cala after their civil marriage, even if the uple haven't been volved a notor are allowed to enter civil partnerships, aga whout a church service afterwards, and have to promise not to have sex wh each other.

BRA'S ONLY OPENLY MARRIED GAY VIR ELECTED TO CHURCH OF ENGLAND SYNOD

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Bishop Nic is not a civil partnership but has said that he is celibate and this he is entirely pliant wh the current Church has been an attempt at a blanket stop on marriage for gay and lbian clergy, and those who do are officially discipled, and a ban placed on them ever gettg a new post the Church. The Church will not nsir for ordatn anyone who is married to someone of the same sex, no matter how good a prit they might quietly, clergy are gettg married or nvertg their civil partnerships to marriage; gay ordands sexual relatnships are gettg the nod through while appearg to ply wh the selectn procr; and clergy are havg sex their civil partnerships. Prits are offerg servic of blsg and thanksgivg to gay and lbian upl and parish celebratg wh them.

Bra’s only openly married gay vir has been elected to the Church of England’s General Synod, and will e his posn to “advote for a church that fac up to issu of sexualy a hont and passnate way” Forhew-Ca, the vir of St Mary wh All Souls, Kilburn and St Jam, Wt Hampstead, said he was “pleased but shocked” at his electn the London sectn of the natnwi ballot to the church’s erng body. Another gay vir, Bertrand Olivier of All Hallows by the Tower, the Cy of London, was also elected after what he scribed as a “polarisg” ntt.

FIRST MARRIED GAY VIR QUS AS MISTER 'STUTNALLY HOMOPHOBIC' CHURCH OF ENGLAND

“The next five years will be que important as the Church of England ntu to nsir how als wh gay marriage as the rt of the world mov on, ” he this week Jeremy Pemberton, a gay hospal chapla who is awag the oute of an dtrial tribunal agast the church, will fd out if his bid for a synod seat has been succsful.

THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

The church was “guilty of terrible dishonty” on the issue, he well as mpaigng on gay rights wh the church, Forhew-Ca said he also wanted to prs for the re-tablishment of the synod’s thory. Rev Bgo Allison, 36, who is genr-queer, grew up a “strongly relig” Christian hoehold Wt Yorkshire and was raised to believe that beg gay was “sful”. ”At that time, Rev Allison had only met two openly gay people and no trans people.

Currently, acrdg to non law, no Church of England mister n bls or marry gay upl. Get the ee Morng Headl email for news om our reporters across the worldSign up to our ee Morng Headl emailAn Anglin vir who beme the first Bra to marry his same-sex partner has announced he is qutg as a mister the “stutnally homophobic” Church of Andrew Forhew-Ca, a member of the lg General Synod, is leavg his church north London to move to the Peak District wh hband Stephen, but will not seek another parish as he said he was told he wouldn’t be given one.

“In the normal n of thgs, I’d be lookg for a parish up north but I n’t have one bee of the stutnal homophobia of the Church of England. “The Church of England is an anisatn which is primarily stutnally homophobic, which has polici and statements which are harmful to LGBTI people, and I’m lookg forward to not beg rponsible to an anisatn which treats gay and lbian people que as badly as do, " he strsed he still had his fah and would rry on gog to church. “I don’t know any of my gay and lbian iends who tend to stay the Church until the end of their workg liv.

GAY VIR 'PHED OUT' OF CHURCH

"Most of are supposed to go on until we’re 68, but all of the gay clergy seem to want to take early retirement … I thk ’s wearisome, actually, to be nstantly the foc for other people’s nasts. “The problem li a small sub-sectn of the Church which is profoundly nasty and homophobic and a learship which is stutnally homophobic and ref to accept that is, " he said that while there has undoubtedly been real progrs his three s workg for the Church, there remaed some way to go before te equaly was achieved.

Although I do thk there will be thanksgivg servic and celebratns for gay marriag, I don’t thk will be full equaly. In 2017, he rigned, publicly nmng the church as “stutnally homophobic”. It was a bold statement, and one he knew would bar him om ever heterosexual prits n marry and have sex, gay clergy members are expected to rema unmarried and celibate.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'HOMOPHOBIC' SAYS GAY MARRIAGE VIR

In April, he and a aln of LGBTQ clergy members lnched the Campaign for Equal Marriage the Church of England, which advot for the right of lbian and gay Anglins to marry their lol parish, and mands that gay clergy members who marry should be allowed to exercise their mistry.

“Unls the Church of England n be enthiastic s wele of gay and lbian people, and their fai and iends, too, we don’t stand a chance.

GAY VIR PH CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO CELEBRATE TRANSGENR INTY LIKE A BAPTISM; SEX CHANGE SURGERY IS 'ABSOLUTE TRMA' CLERGY MT MARK OCSN

“I never experienced any homophobia about , ” he rells.

By Forhew-Ca’s acunt, the broad acceptance he enjoyed wasn’t an aberratn, but ditive of Anglinism at the Rev Andrew Forhew-Ca (ont, third om right) wh fellow openly gay members of the General Synod 2017.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

A rurgent nservatism wh the C of E unhappily cid wh more antagonistic forms of gay activism and liberatn after the partial crimalisatn of same-sex timacy 1967.

Pri march began the followg , while the onset of the Aids crisis the 80s would force sexualy to the public growg visibily of gay and transgenr people wh society forced the church to fe s posn.

In 1991, published the Issu Human Sexualy, a document, which treads a lite le between passn for and acceptance of “homophil” wh the the Lambeth nference of 1998, a global nveng of more than 100 natnal church across the world that tak place about every 10 years, sexualy me up aga. 10, which passed wh an overwhelmg majory, stated that “persons who experience themselv as havg a homosexual orientatn” are “loved by God” and “full members of the Body of Christ”, but that, nohels, “homosexual practice” is “patible wh Scripture”.

MEET THE GAY CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIT OCKED FOR NOT REVEALG THE TAILS OF HIS LOVE LIFE

For Forhew-Ca, was an abditn of the church’s duty of re to s clergy and gay lay. ’”The picture he pats is one of disorr, barely held together by a refully cultivated ambiguy among the church’s top brass: bishops who quietly voice support for same-sex marriage behd closed doors vote agast any liberalisatn towards gay and lbian clergy the synod, he claims.

DIVORCED GAY VIR, 55, QUS HER PARISH DISGRACE FOR GOOD AMID CLAIMS SHE HAD DNKEN ROWS WH A STRG OF GIRLIENDS

Gay people the church are not gog to go away. Currently bans gay weddgs church, allows prayers of support to same sex upl followg a civil partnership or marriage and allows clergy to enter a civil partnership. In a 2017 terview, when asked for his views on “gay sex”, the Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby, said: “I am havg to stggle to be fahful to the tradn, fahful to the scripture, to unrstand what the ll and will of God is the 21st century and to rpond appropriately wh an answer for all people … that vers both sis of the argument.

The 1998 Lambeth Conference (a gatherg of bishops om the worldwi provc of the Anglin Communn) passed a rolutn characterisg “homosexual practice as patible wh Scripture”.

This rolutn is not bdg on any of the Anglin church worldwi, and some of them have gone on to orda gay clergy and/or to celebrate same-sex marriag. What is the suatn wh gay clergy?

BISHOP OF GRANTHAM FIRST C OF E BISHOP TO CLARE HE IS GAY RELATNSHIP

In 2017, Revd Andrew Forhew-Ca, a vir London who married his hband 2015, rigned om his post cg the prsure of workg for an “stutnally homophobic anisatn”. This did not change the Church of England’s teachg on marriage, but did ll for opposn to homophobia.

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