Contents:
- JT WELBY ‘AFFIRMS VALIDY’ OF 1998 GAY SEX IS S CLARATN
- JT WELBY’S GAY MARRIAGE TROUBL ULD BE ABOUT TO GET WORSE
- SOME ANGLIN BISHOPS REJECT LEAR WELBY OVER GAY MARRIAGE
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. The ocsns on which you have received a hostile and homophobic rponse our church are shameful, and for this we repent.
”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’S GAY MARRIAGE TROUBL ULD BE ABOUT TO GET WORSE
GQ: Is gay sex sful? I know that the Church around the world is eply divid on this some plac, cludg the Anglins and other Church, not jt , and we are – the vast majory of the Church is – eply agast gay sex. To be sure, Archbishop Welby wasn’t beg asked about same-sex marriage, but about “gay sex.
Frankly, neher tradnal Christians nor pro-gay advot fd this argument persuasive. 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.
SOME ANGLIN BISHOPS REJECT LEAR WELBY OVER GAY MARRIAGE
10 rejects “homosexual practice as patible wh scripture” and “upholds fahfulns marriage between a man and a woman lifelong unn”.