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.
JT WELBY’S GAY MARRIAGE TROUBL ULD BE ABOUT TO GET WORSE
”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. 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”. Liberal Anglins and gay rights mpaigners the Church of England voiced outrage after the nference recently circulated a seri of “lls” – siar to motns – for the 650 bishops and archbishops om around the world to clud one that lls for a reaffirmatn of a posn that “upholds marriage as between a man and a woman”, that “legimisg or blsg of same-sex unns” nnot be advised, and that “ is the md of the Anglin munn as a whole that same-genr marriage is not permissible” bishop of Los Angel, the Right Rev John H Taylor, was among those aghast at the ll, warng the nference was on urse to register support for a posn that “divis, hurts, spegoats and ni” a move that rais qutns about behd-the-scen machatns, a bishop Toronto who is a member of the group that drafted the ll, revealed a Facebook post: “At no pot our meetgs did we discs the reaffirmatn [of the posn] at the nference, and never appeared any of the early drafts of our work together.
“As a gay man married to another man, my unrstandg and experience of human digny clus the blsg of two people joed together holy marriage, regardls of genr, ” he lead thor of the ll is listed nference documents as Howard Gregory, the bishop of Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury, is the print of the Lambeth nference, which said on Monday morng that “ full nsiratn of ments ma about the Lambeth Calls, the subgroup that ordat the procs will meet wh the archbishop of Canterbury today to discs ncerns raised.
It also announced bishops would be given the optn of opposg the ll when is discsed, when prevly this was not had already ed anger among some the church when partners of gay clergy were not ved to the event.