Ian Pl on why he won't leave the Church of England spe s support for gay blsgs

Contents:

• EX-GAY MAN’S VIEW OF THE GENERAL SYNOD VOTE ON GAY BLSGS
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL
• RPONS TO GAY BLSGS CISN
• ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
• SYNODAL VOTE HOP TO LEGALIZE ‘GAY BLSG’
• GERMAN CATHOLIC SYNOD LLS FOR GAY BLSGS, WOMEN CLERGY, MARRIED PRITS
• TRANSGENR BAPTISMS, GAY MARRIAGE AND GEE BELL: YOUR GUI TO NEXT WEEK'S GENERAL SYNOD
• IAN PL ON WHY HE WON'T LEAVE THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SPE S SUPPORT FOR GAY BLSGS
• GERMAN CATHOLICS PLAN HUGE BLSG OF GAY UNNS ON MAY 10
• GERMAN SYNOD FATHER WANTS ‘PRIVATE BLSG’ FOR GAY UNNS, SAYS ADULTERY N BE MORE CATHOLIC THAN MARRIAGE

EX-GAY MAN’S VIEW OF THE GENERAL SYNOD VOTE ON GAY BLSGS

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.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL

”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 afternoon discsn on July 9 was billed as an “rmal update” on a Febary vote, which General Synod accepted s bishops’ plan to allow prits and ngregatns to bls gay and lbian upl who already are married unr Brish civil law.

RPONS TO GAY BLSGS CISN

They say the change leav place the Church of England’s other teachgs on marriage and sex that margalize the liv and relatnships of gay and lbian upl.

ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL

In scribg the prayers, bishops have acknowledged that some of the relatnships beg blsed will be those of sexually active gay upl, who would be vlatg the church’s teachg that sex is rerved for heterosexual marriage. After years of wranglg over how the church should al wh homosexualy, s bishops announced mid-January that they would not agree to same-sex marriage but were prepared to bls civil unns.

Bell wants the church hierarchy, pecially Welby, to be more urageo takg on nservative Anglins who are not only opposed to same-sex marriage but nmn people for beg gay.

SYNODAL VOTE HOP TO LEGALIZE ‘GAY BLSG’

I myself lived as an openly gay male for 12 years and ed me, but by God’s grace, not permanently. I wasn’t a Christian when I cid to step away om my gay life however; I learned the hard way that homosexual relatnships are dysfunctnal and the gay inty is self-seekg and by flt self-stctive.

GERMAN CATHOLIC SYNOD LLS FOR GAY BLSGS, WOMEN CLERGY, MARRIED PRITS

As I grow spirual matury, my tert homosexualy is creasg whilst my natural God-given tert women creas, thanks to the love of our lord and savur J Christ, who shows me more and more every day what means to be a man of God: self-sacrificg, passnate and missn-led, among many other thgs. The argument agast the blsgs was sentially “Bee scripture says so”, a scriptural tth that awkwardly suggts homosexuals simply mt live a life of abstence wh no plats.

This is bee knowledge of the homosexual ndn (and perhaps even genr as a whole) has been buried out of sight of the mastream for s. Tellg the average homosexual to absta for the rt of their life is like a parent nmng an fant to a life whout s dummy – the removal of the pacifier much upset. I have e to unrstand that homosexualy has been my own pacifier of choice.

Treated people wh unwanted same-sex attractn for over 30 years and stated emphatilly throughout his reer: “Homosexualy is not about sex; ’s about shame”.

TRANSGENR BAPTISMS, GAY MARRIAGE AND GEE BELL: YOUR GUI TO NEXT WEEK'S GENERAL SYNOD

The general ia the se of a homosexual male (for stance) is that the boy has over-intified wh his mother and rejected intifitn wh his father at a ccial stage of his early velopment. The homosexual man seeks himself through sex other men, but he of urse miss the mark. It’s those early experienc that we need to pay attentn to: the pre-homosexual boy mak the unnsc choic often due to an emotnally distant father (sometim bee of his neglect or abe), an over-attached mother (who may be particularly anx or overpensatg for the father’s absence) and/or childhood sexual abe.

46% of homosexual men report havg been molted at a young age pared to 7% of heterosexual men (M E Tomeo, 2001).

IAN PL ON WHY HE WON'T LEAVE THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND SPE S SUPPORT FOR GAY BLSGS

In a 45-mute YouTube vio, I went om believg I was born gay to seeg that my homosexualy was g a lot of grief and was lked to many other psychologil problems, which for me clud an eatg disorr – issu that were prevly unrelated my md. Love is, ed, love, but is homosexualy love? In 1984, two gay rearchers, David McWhirter and Andrew Mattison, set out to enlighten gay men on what mak a good gay relatnship their work ‘The Male Couple’.

GERMAN CATHOLICS PLAN HUGE BLSG OF GAY UNNS ON MAY 10

They found that out of 156 gay male upl, not one of those upl were able to mata fily for more than 5 years (Van Den Aardweg, 1997, p.

GERMAN SYNOD FATHER WANTS ‘PRIVATE BLSG’ FOR GAY UNNS, SAYS ADULTERY N BE MORE CATHOLIC THAN MARRIAGE

Although Nilosi’s explanatns of genr velopment and homosexualy are wily accepted among the ex-gay muny, not all ex-gay people engage therapy, for a variety of reasons.

Furthermore, I note that psychoanalyst Edmund Bergler stat his book ‘Homosexualy: Disease or Way of Life?