CANTERBURY, England (RNS) — 'The issue of gay people and their rights is equivalent a stggle our time to the one over race,' said Michael Curry, pridg bishop of the Epispal Church.
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- ARCHBISHOP OF YORK SAYS GAY SEX IS OK IF ‘MTED, STABLE, FAHFUL RELATNSHIPS'
- GROWG UP GAY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: ‘I TRIED TO BE STRAIGHT. IT WAS AWFUL’
ARCHBISHOP OF YORK SAYS GAY SEX IS OK IF ‘MTED, STABLE, FAHFUL RELATNSHIPS'
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 * homosexuality and the church of england *
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.
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”.
GROWG UP GAY THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND: ‘I TRIED TO BE STRAIGHT. IT WAS AWFUL’
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?
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.