Gay marriage and the shakg of the Church Stland

Contents:

• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CHRISTIAN GROUP LAMENTS CHURCH OF STLAND PRBYTERI DRIFT TOWARD ALLOWG GAY MARRIAGE AHEAD OF VOTE
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• STTISH EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE
• GAY MARRIAGE AND THE SHAKG OF THE CHURCH STLAND
• GAY MARRIAGE SCOTLAND

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

While clergy will not be required to marry same-sex upl, the move mak the mory who oppose the natnal church’s volvement gay marriage worried about further divisn.

The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage. As of 2020, the most recent year for which there is data, more than 42, 000 gay upl England and Wal had tied the knot.

) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012.

CHRISTIAN GROUP LAMENTS CHURCH OF STLAND PRBYTERI DRIFT TOWARD ALLOWG GAY MARRIAGE AHEAD OF VOTE

It end Sectn 28, which prevented schools and lol thori om “promotg homosexualy” and troduced civil partnerships. “I don’t support gay marriage spe beg a Conservative. Gay marriag beme not an abstract threat but somethg unrtaken by iends, lleagu, neighbours.

Almost half of Brons now say they know a married gay uple.

Gordon Brown, Mr Cameron’s precsor, opposed gay marriage office bee was “timately bound up wh qutns of relig eedom”.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

Though Bra was not the first to legalise , 19 other untri have sce given gay marriage their blsg.

But has led to a of eccliastil disrd as liberal members of the church argue for the right to perform or partake gay marriag.

A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl. 'Prayers for God's blsg'The bishops' cisn puts the Church of England at odds wh s Anglin equivalent Stland, The Sttish Epispal Church, and the Prbyterian Church of Stland, which both allow same-sex Anglin Church Wal has provid an thorised service of blsg for gay upl but do not allow same-sex weddgs church.

STTISH EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE

English bishops will remend that some "prayers for God's blsg" for gay upl civil marriag be adopted, the BBC expects. They have been wag to marry until the church allows gay said they felt a "ep disappotment" that the bishops weren't proposg a vote on same-sex marriag. "We're still sayg to gay upl that their relatnships are ls than relatnships between people of oppose sex.

"However, he said they would ntue to mpaign for the Church to change s teachg on marryg gay said: "This isn't over.

GAY MARRIAGE AND THE SHAKG OF THE CHURCH STLAND

"The Archbishop of York, the Most Rev'd Stephen Cottrell, told BBC Rad 4's Today programme a iend who was gay had died before he was able to have his civil partnership acknowledged any way by the Church. Image source, Getty ImagThe Sttish Epispal Church has voted to allow gay upl to marry mak the first major Christian church the UK to allow same-sex vote to amend non law on marriage, removg the stipulatn that is between a man and a woman, was rried by the Synod means that gay Christians om any Anglin Church n now ask to be married a Sttish Epispal who wish to officiate at gay marriag will have to "opt-" church said this meant that those who disagreed wh gay marriage would be protected and not have to act agast their Epispal Church's Bishop of Edburgh, The Right Reverend Dr John Arm, said: "I am very pleased for the upl who n now have their relatnships regnised by the church and blsed by God. "Media ptn, Sttish Epispal Church allows gay church marriageThe vote to allow same-sex marriage - which required the backg of at least two thirds of each hoe of Bishops, Clergy and Lay - has left the church at odds wh most of the rt of the worldwi Anglin Communn.

GAY MARRIAGE SCOTLAND

A group of global Anglin tradnalists have now announced that they will appot a missnary bishop "to serve the needs of those who oppose gay marriage". Only Aberen and Orkney voted agast the source, Getty ImagImage ptn, The Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby is the Anglin Communn's spirual headAnalysis by BBC Stland rrponnt John McManThis vote to change non law, openg marriage to same sex upl, isn't jt the latt skirmish the relig war between tradnalist Christians and those of a more liberal will have profound nsequenc, bee the issue of gay relatnships has bee a touchstone for those who believe that the Anglin Church has lost s way, and needs to be Christians who live the global south, where the 80-pl ln Anglin Communn is at s strongt, look wh horror at what they see as mov to legimise gay relatnships and liftyl. 'Ignorg the will of God'They not only disapprove of those liftyl, but they see mov such as the ordatn of gay clergy as evince that the church is ignorg the will of head of the Anglin Communn is the Archbishop of Canterbury and he's e unr enormo prsure om bishops Ai and Asia to stand firm on this bishops are growg fluence and have formed an anisatn - Gafn - which is directly challengg the more liberal Christians of the global will be embolned by this vote, even if they disapprove of - and may hasten a spl the munn, wh power movg south to the church of sex marriage beme legal Stland at the end of 2014 but the Church of Stland and the Roman Catholic Church opposed the issue has provoked passnate bate wh the Anglin Communn.

In January last year, the munn sanctned the US Epispal Church when cid to allow gay marriage church. And Febary, a report opposg gay marriage was opposed by the Church of England's Synod.