Church of England 'mt accept actively gay clergy' | Anglinism | The Guardian

Contents:

• GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'
• SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• GAY UPLE RECEIVE LANDMARK CHURCH WAL BLSG
• ROW OVER RELEASE OF GAY CLERGY LIST
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY TURN BLD EYE TO GAY CLERGY SEX
• THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

GAY CLERGY URGE GREATER CLN CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Fourteen Church of England clergy same-sex marriag have lled on bishops to do more to clu gay people the life of the a letter to the Sunday Tim, they said they wanted to eventually see gay upl allowed to marry Church. Some of the clergy signg the letter were revealg they were gay and married for the first time letter after Bishop Nicholas Chamberla said on Friday he was gay and a relatnship. Publitn the n-up to a College of Bishops meetg om 12 to 15 September which will discs issu of epispal mistry and clergy said bishops should be bold, and allow gay people to "celebrate whout fear and openns", though they said that now is not yet the time to change the church's official unrstandg of letter reads: "But many our parish have already ma that move and is time to rpect that a diversy of theology wh the Church now exists and that there is more than one unrstandg of what a fahful Christian may believe on the issu.

"Image source, Dce of LlnImage ptn, The Bishop of Grantham beme a sufagan the Lln dce November last yearBishop Chamberla revealed he was gay an terview wh the Guardian, which he said he unrstood and lived by the Church guil, which say gay clergy mt rema celibate. Followg the news, the nservative Anglin group Gafn said appotg a gay man as the bishop of Grantham had been a "major error" Chamberla was nsecrated last year by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby - who has said he knew about the bishop's sex relatnships and the ChurchThe Hoe of Bishops has issued guidance about gay relatnships which say "same sex relatnships often embody genue mutualy and fily" the guidance adds: "Gettg married to someone of the same sex would, however, clearly be at variance wh the teachg of the Church of England.

"However, the sentiments have not been followed throughout the Anglin source, PAImage ptn, Gene Robson is nsired the first openly gay bishop the Anglin worldIn the US, Gene Robson's electn as Bishop of the Epispal Dce of New Hampshire 2003 provoked a furore om nservative Anglins around the world, and ntributed to the rise of the nservative Gafn the UK, the Dean of St Albans, the Very Reverend Jefey John entered to a civil partnership was twice tipped to bee a bishop - at Readg 2003, then at Southwark 2010 - but was not appoted. Image source, PA MediaImage ptn, The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Jt Welby, warned the Church's parliament not to give to the "fear of a slippery slope" when batg plans to bls same-sex uplThe Church of England has backed proposals to allow prayers of blsg for same sex posn on gay marriage will not change and same-sex upl will still be unable to marry plans, set out by bishops last month, have been cricised om those who thk they go too far and those who thk they don't go far the motn was passed all three of synod's 'ho'.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL

Prits will have the optn to bls gay upl but n opt out. "God's blsgIn more than eight hours of bate there were 18 vot on attempted amendments, both om nservativ and amendment to force a vote on changg the Church's teachg and allowg gay upl to marry Church was only amendment that passed was om nservativ, rercg that the new prayers of blsg "should not be ntrary to or ditive of a parture om the doctre of the Church of England" which do not allow same-sex marriage. The motn had been brought by the Bishop of London, Dame Sarah Mullally, and was the rult of six years of work on qutns of inty, sexualy, relatnships and marriage known as Livg In Love And relign edor Aleem Maqbool said: "It may sound ntradictory to vote to bls same-sex marriag, but still nsir them as unns that fy Church of England doctre but that after five years of nsultatn is the formula that's been settled on" said Church lears were celebratg the move as "a watershed moment and a move forward towards acceptance of LGBTQ unns, but a way that holds the stutn together" is not the type of marriage equaly that, for example, the Epispal Church Stland long approved - for now, gay upl will still not be able to have a Church of England fal motn was passed across the synod's three 'ho'.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND 'MT ACCEPT ACTIVELY GAY CLERGY'

The Hoe of Lay voted 103 favour, 92 agast, and 5 bishops will now falise the wordg of the new prayers and also issue new guidance on whether gay clergy mt rema celibate before the synod meets aga on this story. Currently bans gay weddgs church, allows prayers of support to same sex upl followg a civil partnership or marriage and allows clergy to enter a civil partnership.

In a 2017 terview, when asked for his views on “gay sex”, the Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby, said: “I am havg to stggle to be fahful to the tradn, fahful to the scripture, to unrstand what the ll and will of God is the 21st century and to rpond appropriately wh an answer for all people … that vers both sis of the argument. The 1998 Lambeth Conference (a gatherg of bishops om the worldwi provc of the Anglin Communn) passed a rolutn characterisg “homosexual practice as patible wh Scripture”.

This rolutn is not bdg on any of the Anglin church worldwi, and some of them have gone on to orda gay clergy and/or to celebrate same-sex marriag. What is the suatn wh gay clergy? In 2017, Revd Andrew Forhew-Ca, a vir London who married his hband 2015, rigned om his post cg the prsure of workg for an “stutnally homophobic anisatn”.

SURVEY SET TO REVEAL NUMBER OF GAY CLERGY CHURCH OF ENGLAND

This did not change the Church of England’s teachg on marriage, but did ll for opposn to homophobia. A leadg historian has lled for the Church of England to accept gay partnerships among s clergy, stead of enuragg them to hi their sexualy or rema celibate. Diarmaid MacCulloch, profsor of the history of the church at the Universy of Oxford and prenter of BBC4's A History of Christiany, wr the Guardian that while there has been a revolutn attus towards gay people the UK, "the church has jt stuck s fgers s ears and chanted la-la-la".

GAY UPLE RECEIVE LANDMARK CHURCH WAL BLSG

"His ments e nearly a week after was revealed that Jefey John, the most senr openly gay cleric the church, was nsirg sug his employers for discrimatn.

MacCulloch argu that "the Anglin munn has … imposed pulsory celibacy on a large sectn of s clergy: those who regnise they are predomantly gay sexual orientatn". He also cricis the selectn procs for new prits, which he says is obssed wh the sexualy of ndidat and "vot an ordate amount of time to quizzg them about " the moment the church's posn is that there is no bar to gay people assumg cleril office, even if they are civil partnerships, wh the ccial proviso that they mt not be sexually active. "Reverend Rod Thomas, chair of the nservative group Reform, said the appotment of a gay bishop England would lead to divisn the church as had done the US.

ROW OVER RELEASE OF GAY CLERGY LIST

"Explag the church's abily to e to terms wh the issue of gay clergy, MacCulloch poted to a crisis of masculy. "It's tertg that female homosexualy don't tert the clergy so much.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND MAY TURN BLD EYE TO GAY CLERGY SEX

It's male homosexualy and that's bee 's still a very male-domated stutn. Image source, Getty ImagThe Church of England will not be whdrawg guidance that said sex is only for "heterosexual married upl" the archbishops of Canterbury and York are "very sorry and regnise the divisn and hurt" last week's statement Welby and John Sentamu say the statement "jeopardised tst" me ahead of a study by the Church to human sexualy, due to be published later this Irw, an LGBT Christian, felt "really disheartened and flated" when the guidance was issued by the Church of England last said sex gay or straight civil partnerships "falls short of God's purpose for human begs".

THE REBEL PRIT: ‘GAY PEOPLE THE CHURCH ARE NOT GOG TO GO AWAY’

"People that are gay get qutned all the time - 'If you're gay then you mt be sng' - but people don't generally ask me that bee they assume that I'm followg the 'rrect' way. "It still ss that marriage should be between a man and a woman and the only thg that's new is that this is about civil partnerships, " she believ the statement is "too blunt" and neglects the work that's really gog on towards liberatg homosexualy the Church. A natnal survey of the number of homosexual clergy the Church of England will take place this year, acrdg to gay rights mpaigners.

Inclive Church, a work of dividuals and anisatns workg for better regnn of mori, says the survey will be the first of s kd and will prove that lbian, gay, bisexual and transgenred (LGBT) clergy play a ccial role the everyday life of the onle survey will ask participants whether they are sgle, a relatnship, and have had a blsg or thanksgivg service to celebrate their partnership. "The survey would start late November and take about six months to plete; would be nducted by a firm specialisg populatn month the archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, reerated his opposn to ordag gay clergy and thorisg same-sex blsgs, sayg they were "at the very least analogo" to Christian marriage and people livg such unns uld not "whout ser ngy" have a reprentative functn a church whose public teachg was "at odds wh their liftyle". The world beyond the church has set the moral agenda, and those who kneel wh our footballers, or who see no difference between attendg the marriage of their gay or their straight iends or work lleagu, fd the muny of fah to be wantg and ed creasgly offensive.

Gay and lbian clergy are permted to be relatnships so long as they are celibate. However stopped short of allowg gay upl to marry s move has put the Church Wal at odds wh s sister Anglin church, the Church of England, which forbids clergy om blsg gay Lee said the service, at St Collen's Church, Llangollen, Denbighshire, was "extremely special".