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The Vatin creed Monday that the Catholic Church nnot bls same-sex unns sce God "nnot bls s," while upholdg the church's welg and blsg of gay people.

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LICHFIELD BISHOPS WELE GAY BLSGS FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

A signifint move by the Anglin Church to bls the marriage of two gay prits at a ceremony this week has been postponed due to a legal challenge. * anglican church gay blessing *

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 ocsns on which you have received a hostile and homophobic rponse our church are shameful and for this we repent, ” the bishops wrote. Among them is a re for the “sealg of a venanted iendship, ” referrg to a type of mted same-sex relatnship that is lovg but not sexual, siar to the biblil stori of Ruth and Naomi or Jonathan and David – a type of relatnship more mon the early church that has been recently advoted by celibate gay Christians.

ADOPTN OF GAY BLSGS WOULD LEAD TO THE REMOVAL OF WELBY AS LEAR OF THE ANGLIN WORLD — WARN GLOBAL SOUTH ARCHBISHOPS

Among them is a re for the “sealg of a venanted iendship, ” referrg to a type of mted same-sex relatnship that is lovg but not sexual, siar to the biblil stori of Ruth and Naomi or Jonathan and David—a type of relatnship more mon the early church that has been recently advoted by celibate gay Christians. Some parishners fear the PCC’s stance means gay upl will be unable to fd a church willg to bls their civil marriage the town and surroundg £235, 000 that Great Chham pays annually to the dce to ver clergy salari and other sts reprents about 1. ” The GSFA says that the proposed pastoral rource of Prayers of Love and Fah for blsg and affirmg gay upl, ntradicts Holy Scripture taken as a whole, and particular, the bible’s teachg on marriage and sexual ethics.

World|Anglins Reject Blsg Re for Gay Partners ADVERTISEMENTMay 28, 2003Lears of the world's Anglin church said today that they uld not support ceremoni blsg homosexual relatnships, which one bishop Canada has permted. ''''This is distct om the duty of pastoral re that is laid upon all Christians to rpond wh love and unrstandg to people of all sexual orientatns, '' bishop of Vanuver, Michael Ingham, divid his own dce by approvg blsg ruals for homosexuals.

Homosexualy has been a eply divisive issue among Anglin church. Rowan Williams, the archbishop of Canterbury, has drawn cricism for ordag a homosexual when he was primate of the church beg appoted to the Canterbury post, however, he has pledged to affirm the 1998 Lambeth Conference claratn that homosexual relatns are ''patible wh Scripture.

SOUTH EAST ASIA STATEMENT ON CHURCH OF ENGLAND’S GAY BLSGS VOTE

''A versn of this article appears prt on, Sectn A, Page 5 of the Natnal edn wh the headle: Anglins Reject Blsg Re for Gay Partners.

ANGLINS REJECT BLSG RE FOR GAY PARTNERS

Image source, PA MediaImage ptn, The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Jt Welby, warned the Church's parliament not to give to the "fear of a slippery slope" when batg plans to bls same-sex uplThe Church of England has backed proposals to allow prayers of blsg for same sex posn on gay marriage will not change and same-sex upl will still be unable to marry plans, set out by bishops last month, have been cricised om those who thk they go too far and those who thk they don't go far the motn was passed all three of synod's 'ho'. Prits will have the optn to bls gay upl but n opt out.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL

"God's blsgIn more than eight hours of bate there were 18 vot on attempted amendments, both om nservativ and amendment to force a vote on changg the Church's teachg and allowg gay upl to marry Church was only amendment that passed was om nservativ, rercg that the new prayers of blsg "should not be ntrary to or ditive of a parture om the doctre of the Church of England" which do not allow same-sex marriage. The motn had been brought by the Bishop of London, Dame Sarah Mullally, and was the rult of six years of work on qutns of inty, sexualy, relatnships and marriage known as Livg In Love And relign edor Aleem Maqbool said: "It may sound ntradictory to vote to bls same-sex marriag, but still nsir them as unns that fy Church of England doctre but that after five years of nsultatn is the formula that's been settled on" said Church lears were celebratg the move as "a watershed moment and a move forward towards acceptance of LGBTQ unns, but a way that holds the stutn together" is not the type of marriage equaly that, for example, the Epispal Church Stland long approved - for now, gay upl will still not be able to have a Church of England fal motn was passed across the synod's three 'ho'. The Hoe of Lay voted 103 favour, 92 agast, and 5 bishops will now falise the wordg of the new prayers and also issue new guidance on whether gay clergy mt rema celibate before the synod meets aga on this story.

BLSG GAY UNNS

As a nsequence, Ain Anglins – still dwellg, seems, the heart of relig darkns, and not posssg the nate English gift for muddlg through – are not yet persuad of the goodns of homosexualy or of the Christian legimacy of blsg same-sex unns. Will Ain Catholic bishops, after chastisg the Germans or Fernánz, issue a siar statement regardg Cardal McElroy of San Diego, who has recently lled to qutn the ancient Christian ia that homosexual terurse is mortally sful, tellg that we 21st-century Catholics know much more about homosexualy than did ancient moral teachers (e.

“Liberal” or “progrsive” Catholic circl have for some years now phed to loosen up the ancient l ncerng sexual nduct, pecially homosexual nduct. There are two reasons, I suggt, for this liberal foc on homosexualy.

THE ANGLIN CHURCH’S ‘KICK THE GUTS’ TO GAY PARISHNERS

For one, we feel a natural human sympathy for Catholics who, perhaps through no flt of their own, have a fixed homosexual orientatn, yet are told by their relign – our relign – that they mt live whout sexual affectn and pannship. For another, sce Catholicism has always regard homosexualy as a particularly extreme sexual s – a s that is not merely an offense agast God but an offense agast our animal nature self – once you give the green light to homosexualy you will also have to give to other sexual ss, e.

Once you give your approval to the blsg of homosexual unns, you will next, at least if you are logil (which humans sometim are), have to allow prits to bls premaral sexual unns and adultero unns. What idcy this is – this bendg of the ancient l regardg homosexualy! Blsg Gay Unns - Friday, July 7, 2023.

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RPONS TO GAY BLSGS CISN

AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTDivisns over the acceptance of homosexualy have proved tractable both on a global level and si even liberal-leang untri like New Fuller/Prs Associatn, via Getty ImagWELLINGTON, New Zealand — Craig Watson has spent his life searchg for a church that accepts him fully as a gay man. ” In late July, Jt Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and global lear of the Anglin Church (known the Uned Stat as the Epispal Church), affirmed as church policy a 1998 statement that rejects “homosexual practice as nsistent wh scripture.

”Divisns over the acceptance of homosexualy have raised doubts about whether the Anglin Church n rema uned, a nflict that has played out both on a global level and si even liberal-leang untri like New Zealand, where some Anglins have broken away to prerve tradnal tensns have pulled at the Anglin Church, which has 85 ln members worldwi, for s. Gene Robson, an openly gay prit, as bishop of New Hampshire.

In recent years, however, natnal church ​​Wal, Stland, Canada, Brazil and Mexi have voted to perm clergy to eher officiate or bls same-sex divisns were on display aga last month at Lambeth, the Anglin Church’s cennial nference, where the 650 bishops attendance argued over the treatment of lbian, gay and transgenr Rowland/Getty ImagThe archbishops of Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda did not attend Lambeth prott of “biblil revisnism” by liberal church. He said at Lambeth that church wh liberal views on homosexualy would not be punished.

GAY ANGLIN PRITS FIGHT TO GET CHURCH BLSG OF THEIR SAME-SEX MARRIAGE

But he also sought to mollify nservative bishops, who reprent a majory of Anglins worldwi, by affirmg the 1998 statement llg homosexualy nsistent wh archbishop said that for church many untri, changg tradnal teachg on same-sex relatnships “challeng their very existence.

” At the same time, he noted, church elsewhere face “risn, ntempt and even attack” if they fail to support gay and transgenr equivalence drew new cricism om liberal Anglins like Mr.

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