Gay, lbian bishops meet onle wh archbishop of Canterbury ahead of Lambeth Conference – Epispal News Service

Contents:

• JT WELBY ‘AFFIRMS VALIDY’ OF 1998 GAY SEX IS S CLARATN
• ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
• ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY NMNS GAY MARRIAGE, BUT ANGLIN BISHOPS REMA DIVID
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP
• PARTNERED GAY PRIT APPOTED AN OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL
• ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ADMS TO GAY 'CHALLENGE' FOR CHURCH
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• JT WELBY WEL BLSGS FOR GAY UPL BUT WILL NOT PERFORM THEM
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND SAYS NO TO GAY MARRIAGE BUT ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY WEL BLSGS FOR SAME-SEX UPL HISTORIC FIRST
• ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY URG UGANDAN ANGLINS TO REJECT ANTI-GAY LAW

JT WELBY ‘AFFIRMS VALIDY’ OF 1998 GAY SEX IS S CLARATN

The archbishop of Canterbury will not personally bls same-sex civil marriag spe the Church of England’s historic change of Welby said he was “extremely joyful” at proposals to allow clergy to offer God’s blsg to same sex upl who have legally married, but said he would impose a “self-nyg ordance” for the sake of uny the global Anglin church that he, a divi at the top of the Church of England, Stephen Cottrell, the archbishop of York, said he would personally offer blsgs to same-sex upl and strongly suggted he did not believe gay sex was two archbishops were givg tails of the remendatn by bishops to end years of paful and bter bate wh the church wh a promise that matas s formal teachg that marriage is between a man and a woman, but perms clergy to bls same-sex civil marriag. Acknowledgg disagreements among the bishops on the issu, they said a letter to the church: “The differenc among you are also prent among … We are partnered, sgle, celibate, married, divorced, widowed, bereaved; heterosexual, gay, bisexual and same-sex attracted.

”Asked whether he nsired gay sex was a s, he said: “I believe the great gift of sexual physil timacy [is] to be cherished, [and] belongs stable, lovg, mted relatnships.

”The bishops’ remendatns, which will be put to the church’’s lg body, the general synod, next month, “puts the C of E a new place – a good place”, said past newsletter promotnafter newsletter promotnWh his voice breakg wh emotn, he add: “I’m really pleased ’s changg for my gay iends. Jt Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and lear of the global Anglin church, has sought to mollify nservative bishops around the world by “affirmg the validy” of a 1998 claratn that gay sex is a told more than 650 bishops attendg the once-a- Lambeth nference that, for “a large majory” of nservative Anglins, qutng biblil teachg was “unthkable” said: “In many untri, [] would make the church a victim of risn, ntempt and even attack.

ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL

10 rejects “homosexual practice as patible wh scripture” and “upholds fahfulns marriage between a man and a woman lifelong unn”.

The Church of England this week said wants to offer blsgs to gay upl but would not allow prits to marry Welby said he celebrat the change, but has a "rponsibily for the whole munn" Church also issued a formal apology for the "shameful" tim had "rejected or exclud" LGBTQI+ ntrast to Archbishop Welby's stance, the Archbishop of York said he will offer the prayers which he believ puts the church a "better place", beg tearful as he ma his statement. Earlier this week, bishops told the BBC the church would not change a teachg to allow prits to marry same-sex upl, but that will offer "prayers of ditn, thanksgivg or God's blsg" to gay upl followg a civil marriage or proposal will be bated at the Church's equivalent of a parliament - the General Synod - next marriage has been legal England and Wal sce 2013, but when the law changed the Church did not alter s Welby told a prs nference on Friday that he would "ntue to pray for all those who e seekg prayer and to pray wh love", cludg those who were gay, straight, or who had worri about their relatnships.

Media ptn, Watch: The Archbishop of York was emotnal about the Church of England's apologyMr Cottrell, who grew emotnal while speakg at the prs nference, said: "I'm really pleased 's changg for my gay iends, " acknowledgg that the change is not enough for some people. The ocsns on which you have received a hostile and homophobic rponse our church are shameful and for this we repent, " said a letter.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY NMNS GAY MARRIAGE, BUT ANGLIN BISHOPS REMA DIVID

"'I'm nsirg leavg the Church'Image source, MathewImage ptn, Gay Christian Mathew Hulbert says LGBT Anglins should be celebrated not jt toleratedGay Anglin Mathew Hulbert told the BBC he felt "great disappotment" over the bishops' cisn not to propose same-sex marriage to the General Synod and is nsirg leavg the Church of England. "Dr Steven Croft, the Bishop of Oxford, said the church has "further to go" on the issue and lled for a change s doctre to allow gay marriage, beg the most senr bishop the Church of England to do so. Delays meant this was the first sce 2008 and there had been speculatn tensns uld n high, wh the risk even of divisn or the acturg of the munn that reprents more than 80 ln people the nference was voted to a gamut of issu, the jeopardy surround a predictable qutn which, neverthels, many nservative church said they saw as fundamental: homosexualy and same-sex fact, the reason the nference didn't take place 2018 was bee was felt the munn was not ready to fd a way forward on the issue.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOP REVEALS HE IS A GAY RELATNSHIP

For years, this muny has wrtled wh , and now jt a handful of the 46 church the munn nduct or bls same-sex marriag, and only a small mory allow gay clergy. The archbishops of Nigeria, Rwanda and Uganda boytted this Lambeth Conference over the issue, prottg that any "regnn of homosexual relatns" was biblil if the ambn had been to hold thgs together among those who did attend, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby, appears to have found the formula for now. PragmatismIt was set out a pivotal speech which, on the one hand, he reaffirmed a rolutn passed by the Lambeth Conference 1998 which said same sex marriage was wrong and "homosexual practic" are patible wh scripture.

She said the signals he sent, reaffirmg the Church's long-held posn that gay marriage was wrong, and that same-sex relatnships fied scripture, put liv at risk. A nsultatn procs is due to report later this year, but gay rights advot wh the Church are not nfint will lead to source, PA MediaImage ptn, Jt Welby led the openg service of the nferenceGiven the untri which Anglinism is growg, is nservative views that are growg globally.

Some nservative Ain bishops at the nference suggted that if the Church of England allowed gay marriage would leave them, and not English bishops, as the te Anglins. Existential threatMany other bishops at the nference bristle at the fact there has been so much foc the media and outsi world on the issue of pot to the fellowship and llaboratn on issu like poverty and nflict that has been fostered durg the nference, and give those as important exampl of why is ccial to keep the munn is Jt Welby himself who talked about the issue of same-sex marriage as beg a potential existential threat to the church - some untri if church challenge the hard le historil posn on , others if they do not make archbishop may well have been talkg about his own Church the latter tegory, as one of those that need to reform if is to stay relevant and avoid beg subject to may feel that he has ma a signifint promise by sayg natnal church choosg to nduct same-sex marriag will not be sanctned, but here at home, even jt by entertag and reaffirmg a posn that allows gay people to be viewed unequally, as he did at this nference, he risks dog precisely what he says should be on this story. The head of the Anglin Communn attempted to rerce the church's stance agast homosexual marriage this week, but the move was squashed by outcry om var ntroversy me to a head durg the ongog 2022 Lambeth Conference — a rare meetg of Anglin Communn bishops om around the world.

PARTNERED GAY PRIT APPOTED AN OF CANTERBURY CATHEDRAL

The Global South Fellowship of Anglin Church (GSFA) — self-scribed as "a worldwi fellowship of orthodox Anglin Provc and Dc wh the Anglin Communn" — me to the nference wh the gay marriage ban firmly on their agenda. A ll was schled for the nference — a sort of vote amongst the bishops to endorse or abandon proposed belief next day — after word got out about the ph for a formal rejectn of homosexual marriage — the nference was threatened wh bishops reportedly stayed seated and did not receive the Eucharist durg the mass.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY ADMS TO GAY 'CHALLENGE' FOR CHURCH

(Photo by Gareth Fuller/PA Imag via Getty Imag) Anglinism has been acturg for s over gay relatnships, women's ordatn and other issu.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

Those rifts blew wi open 2003 when the New York-based Epispal Church nsecrated the first openly gay bishop, Gene Robson, New Hampshire. Epispal legislative body, or General Conventn, voted to thorize gay marriag their HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APPIn 2009, Anglin natnal lears Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and other church provc helped create the Anglin Church North Ameri, as a theologilly nservative alternative to the U.

The bishop of Grantham has bee the first Church of England bishop to publicly clare that he is gay and a a move that will be embraced by mpaigners for equaly but is likely to alarm nservativ who fear the church is movg away om tradnal teachgs, Nicholas Chamberla said there had been no secret about his long-term - albe celibate - relatnship wh his a threat by a Sunday newspaper to reveal Chamberla’s sexualy had phed him to speak publicly.

For me, and for those who assisted his appotment, the fact that Bishop Nicholas is gay is not, and has never been, a termg factor. Its tradnal belief that marriage is a unn of a man and a woman has e unr prsure om societal change and growg mands wh the church that gay people should be accepted and allowed to marry creasg number of prits have married or plan to marry same-sex partners fiance of the ban on gay clergy week, a group of C of E nservative evangelil parish held a meetg to discs their rponse to what they claimed to be the waterg-down of the thory of the Bible on the issue of sexualy, what was billed as potentially the first step towards a breakaway om the Anglin church.

JT WELBY WEL BLSGS FOR GAY UPL BUT WILL NOT PERFORM THEM

It followed Welby’s recent ments at a Christian ftival, when he said he was “nstantly nsumed wh horror” at the church’s treatment of lbians and gay men. Strsg that he did not want to bee known as “the gay bishop”, he said he hoped that the impact of his openns would be “that we n say the bishop of Grantham is gay and is gettg on wh his life and mistry”. David Hope, the former archbishop of York, said that his sexualy was a "grey area" after beg threatened wh beg "outed"; and former archbishop of Canterbury Gee Carey claimed to have knowgly nsecrated two celibate gay men as bishops the 2003, the London Tim reported that the Right Rev Peter Wheatley, then the bishop of Edmonton, was gay and livg wh his partner.

The new archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby, has highlighted the challenge faced by the Anglin church over gay relatnships ahead of his enthronement on Thursday, sayg he has iends who are long-term gay relatnships of "stunng" 105th archbishop of Canterbury and lear of the worldwi Anglin muny, who will bee the first holr of the office to be enthroned by a woman at the afternoon ceremony, has wrten to Peter Tatchell offerg to discs his attu to gay marriage after the veteran mpaigner cricised an open a pre-enthronement terview wh the BBC, Welby said that while he did not have doubts about the church's policy opposg same-sex marriag he remaed "challenged as to how we rpond to ". "You see gay relatnships that are jt stunng the qualy of the relatnship, " the 57-year-old said, addg that he had "particular iends where I regnise that and am eply challenged by ".

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SAYS NO TO GAY MARRIAGE BUT ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY WEL BLSGS FOR SAME-SEX UPL HISTORIC FIRST

"Qutned as to whether the church uld simply ignore some gay relatnships, he replied: "It's not a bld eye – 's about lovg people as they are and where they are. "Separately, the Tim reported that Welby had emailed Tatchell after the mpaigner released an open letter ahead of the enthronement qutng Welby's rejectn of gay letter said: "You claim that you are not homophobic but a person who oppos legal equaly for LGBT people is homophobic – the same way that a person who oppos equal rights for black people is racist. [Epispal News Service] Four gay and lbian Epispal bishops, along wh two om Anglin dc Canada and Wal, spoke wh Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby on Jan.

ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY URG UGANDAN ANGLINS TO REJECT ANTI-GAY LAW

In 2008, at the last Lambeth Conference, then-New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robson, the first openly gay and partnered bishop the Anglin Communn, was not allowed to attend by then-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams.