Most members favour, but URC vot 'no' to gay marriage ceremoni

Contents:

• UNED REFORMED CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE SERVIC
• UNED REFORMED CHURCH FAILS TO AGREE ON GAY WEDDGS
• UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE VOTE: THE UPLE HOPG TO MARRY CHURCH
• UNED REFORMED CHURCH TO ALLOW GAY CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS UK CHURCH
• UR GAY
• MOST MEMBERS FAVOUR, BUT URC VOT 'NO' TO GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI
• GAY MARRIAGE
• U.S. REP. STT PERRY VOT FAVOR OF BILL THAT WOULD PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE

UNED REFORMED CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE SERVIC

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UNED REFORMED CHURCH FAILS TO AGREE ON GAY WEDDGS

A vote on Saturday eveng at s General Assembly backed a motn that will allow gay upl to tie the knot URC church. Uned Reformed church wishg to register their buildgs for the marriage of same-sex upl are now able to start that procs cisn whether to hold gay marriag will be left to each dividual church. Small church, like Steve Chalke's Oasis group, have already said they will nduct gay marriag but wh 56, 000 members Bra the URC is by far the biggt to change s l.

UNED METHODIST CHURCH MOV TO ALLOW LGBT CLERGY AND GAY MARRIAGE

Elsewhere Quakers already allow gay marriage and the Sttish Epispal Church is now wily expected to pass a motn allowg same sex unns next summer. Crics of gay marriage say is unbiblil and God is clear that marriage is between one man and one John Proctor, General Secretary of the URC said: "Today the URC has ma an important cisn – at which some will rejoice and wh which others will be unfortable.

GAY MARRIAGE VOTE: THE UPLE HOPG TO MARRY CHURCH

A lear the Uned Reformed Church Stland has said although allowg gay marriage is up to each church, he hop others will thk about dog the same.

On Sunday, BBC's Songs of Praise broadst a same-sex weddg for the first time at a Uned Reformed Church (URC) and Ian McDowell-Wallace are both members of the Uned Reformed Church, where gay marriage was legalised three years ago. ' And, if we're hont, I gus there are very few church wh whom there aren't probably people who - if not untg themselv as LGBT - might be LGBT alli, they might have a child, a brother, a parent, who is gay.

"Graham Nicholls om Affy told Premier's News Hour on Tuday: "I don't like the langge that's beg ed by those favour of thgs like 's an issue of grace and love and jtice and clivy and the implitn is that that those of who might thk differently on this particular issue of gay marriage - not about cln, or jtice - that we're horrible people who are not clive, or grac, or lovg, or jt, or any of those thgs. But relig anisatns have to "opt " to offer weddgs after gay marriage beme legal England and Wal earlier this agreed upon, dividual ngregatns wh the church would have been able to provi marriage to gay upl. 'Tradnal unrstandg'The first same-sex weddgs took place on March 29 followg the change Church of England and Church Wal, which did not support the change, are banned law om offerg gay weddgs.

UNED REFORMED CHURCH TO ALLOW GAY CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS UK CHURCH

Northern Ireland has no plans to change s laws to allow same-sex Quakers and the Unarian Church have already agreed to hold gay weddgs wh their premis. Image ptn, Relig anisatns have to "opt " to offer weddgs after gay marriageHowever, wh around 90, 000 members across 1, 500 ngregatns, the Uned Reformed Church is nsirably larger than they are. " Another speaker urged the church to wele gay people "to the feast of marriage".

A mtee wh the Uned Methodist Church has affirmed a proposal on acceptg LGBT clergy and gay marriage. Gay clergy and same-sex marriage may be allowed at Uned Methodist Church thanks to a proposal drafted by the Connectnal Table, a rpected ternatnal body of clergy members and lay people the church. On Tuday, the mtee affirmed the proposal to remove church legislatn that punish clergy for beg “self-avowed practicg homosexuals” or officiatg gay weddgs, the Uned Methodist Church News Service reported.

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If passed, clergy members would not face punishment, church trials or be ocked if they officiated same-sex weddgs or me out as gay.

This was the realy for Uned Methodist pastor Frank Schaefer, who was ocked November 2013 and restated last October after officiatg the weddg of his gay son. While the church reversed s cisn on technil grounds, rather than those related to s posn on homosexualy, church lears saw the reversal as a signal toward full cln of s LGBT members.

MOST MEMBERS FAVOUR, BUT URC VOT 'NO' TO GAY MARRIAGE CEREMONI

However, remas a small step until the church pletely remov s negative language on homosexualy.

" LGBT people who are “self-avowed” and “practicg” homosexualy also are forbidn om beg ordaed. Homosexualy has been bated by church lears for more than four s.

In January, a Methodist mister om Alabama told his 560-member ngregatn that homosexualy is not a s. Image ptn, Lee (left) and her partner Anne are hopg to have their church weddg ceremony eher Manchter or NorwichAs gay marriage ceremoni are expected to be approved by a nomatn of the Christian church, Lee Battle and her partner are hopg to be among the first to have a church weddg the months of uncertaty 37-year-old Lee is hopg she will fally be able to send out her weddg vatns. "'Sense of excement'The URC is not likely to be the only Christian nomatn to approve gay marriag s church.

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Quakers allow gay marriag their plac of worship and clergy of some smaller ngregatns have been known to hold the ceremoni. Meanwhile, the general synod of the Sttish Epispal Church - which has about as many members as the URC - is set to make a cisn on the matter next Very Reverend Kelv Holdsworth, the provost of St Mary's Cathedral Glasgow, expects gay members of his ngregatn to tie the knot there. "Image ptn, The Very Reverend Kelv Holdsworth expects to hold same-sex marriage ceremoni the futureAnd there stands a problem for the Church of England, whose general synod also meets this weekend, and whose 483 bishops, clergy and lay members will eject prs and public for two days of private "shared nversatns" about human Reverend Andrew Forhew-Ca, a gay north London vir who fli a rabow flag om his church's flagpole, will be takg part.

U.S. REP. STT PERRY VOT FAVOR OF BILL THAT WOULD PROTECT GAY MARRIAGE

Quakers, Unarians and Progrsive Jewish Synagogu the Uned Kgdom already accept same-sex civil partnerships, but the URC is the first mastream Christian nomatn to jo the movement that many nsir to be opposn to the tradnal fn of same-sex civil partnerships are not nsired the same as marriag, is possible that a step such a directn will crease the prsure on other church to rensir their stanc on gay unns and their place the Brish ernment, led by Prime Mister David Cameron, has been phg for the fn of marriage to be changed to clu same-sex upl, but Catholics and Anglins have stood firm opposn to such plans.

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