Battle looms Church of England over 'blsgs' for gay marriage

Contents:

• ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND L OUT BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAG
• ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL
• BLSG GAY UNNS
• LICHFIELD BISHOPS WELE GAY BLSGS FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND PLANS BLSGS FOR GAY COUPL
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• BRISH MLIMS EXPRS ‘EP NCERN’ OVER CHURCH OF ENGLAND ‘GAY BLSG’ PROPOSALS AND ‘INTY POLICS’ CHURCH SCHOOLS
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND: GAY UPL N'T MARRY BUT WILL RECEIVE 'GOD'S BLSG'
• BATTLE LOOMS CHURCH OF ENGLAND OVER 'BLSGS' FOR GAY MARRIAGE
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO ALLOW BLSGS FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAG BUT WILL STILL PROHIB GAY MARRIAGE SI CHURCH
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND L OUT BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAG
• EXPLAED: WHAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS CID ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIPS

ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL

Church of England prits will be permted to bls the civil marriag of same-sex upl a profound shift the church’s stance on homosexualy after a historic vote by s erng first blsgs for gay upl uld happen this summer.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND L OUT BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAG

”Nigel Pietroni, the chair of the Campaign for Equal Marriage the C of E, said the cisn “falls short of what we ultimately believe is the only oute for radil cln – equal marriage for all people”, but was “a small step forward” gay rights mpaigner Peter Tatchell said: “The offer of blsgs to same-sex partners is an sult. The Church of England this week said wants to offer blsgs to gay upl but would not allow prits to marry Welby said he celebrat the change, but has a "rponsibily for the whole munn" Church also issued a formal apology for the "shameful" tim had "rejected or exclud" LGBTQI+ ntrast to Archbishop Welby's stance, the Archbishop of York said he will offer the prayers which he believ puts the church a "better place", beg tearful as he ma his statement. Earlier this week, bishops told the BBC the church would not change a teachg to allow prits to marry same-sex upl, but that will offer "prayers of ditn, thanksgivg or God's blsg" to gay upl followg a civil marriage or proposal will be bated at the Church's equivalent of a parliament - the General Synod - next marriage has been legal England and Wal sce 2013, but when the law changed the Church did not alter s Welby told a prs nference on Friday that he would "ntue to pray for all those who e seekg prayer and to pray wh love", cludg those who were gay, straight, or who had worri about their relatnships.

Media ptn, Watch: The Archbishop of York was emotnal about the Church of England's apologyMr Cottrell, who grew emotnal while speakg at the prs nference, said: "I'm really pleased 's changg for my gay iends, " acknowledgg that the change is not enough for some people. The ocsns on which you have received a hostile and homophobic rponse our church are shameful and for this we repent, " said a letter. "'I'm nsirg leavg the Church'Image source, MathewImage ptn, Gay Christian Mathew Hulbert says LGBT Anglins should be celebrated not jt toleratedGay Anglin Mathew Hulbert told the BBC he felt "great disappotment" over the bishops' cisn not to propose same-sex marriage to the General Synod and is nsirg leavg the Church of England.

ARCHBISHOP WILL NOT GIVE NEW PRAYER BLSG FOR GAY UPL

"Lots of gay people and perhaps lots of young gay Christians will thk, 'do I have to choose? "Dr Steven Croft, the Bishop of Oxford, said the church has "further to go" on the issue and lled for a change s doctre to allow gay marriage, beg the most senr bishop the Church of England to do so. "Are you a church-gog gay uple?

LONDON (Rters) - Church of England prits will not be allowed to bls gay and lbian weddgs, or marry someone of the same sex themselv, acrdg to new guil issued by the church, which is stgglg to heal divis over homosexualy.

BLSG GAY UNNS

Members of the London Gay Men's Choir perform ont of the Ho of Parliament central London July 15, 2013.

A church workg group suggted last year that clergy allow gay and lbian upl to mark and celebrate marriag held unr the new legislatn, as well as civil partnerships, a relig followg meetgs last week, the church’s bishops released guil at the weekend that led out any kd of blsg for gay marriag. Clergy should rpond pastorally and sensively other ways, ” said the guidance om the Hoe of Anglin Communn, which lks Anglins across and beyond the English-speakg world, has been spl for years over gay rights and Biblil thory, pecially sce s U.

LICHFIELD BISHOPS WELE GAY BLSGS FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND

Branch - the Epispal Church - ordaed a gay bishop 2003. Ain tradnalists are strongly opposed to growg acceptance of homosexualy the Anglin Communn and to a Church of England proposal for “facilated nversatns” on Hoe of Bishops - one of three parts of the church’s General Synod - also said people a same-sex marriage should not be ordaed as bishops, prits and ans, nor should those the mistry enter gay marriage. ”The legislatn already forbids the Church of England and s sister Church Wal om nductg same-sex marriag, although other relig groups n opt if they Church of England had announced that would addrs the issue of sexualy, sayg was aware need to reflect rapid chang society and to addrs fallg attendance rat and pecially a failure to attract young people to the Brish parliament passed laws last year to allow gay marriag om 2014 England and Wal.

Stland followed su this month, beg the 17th untry to allow same-sex of the guil were sent to bishops and archbishops other Anglin church around the world, acpanied by a letter om the Archbishop of Canterbury Jt Welby and Archbishop of York John acknowledged the divisns the church on homosexualy but said same-sex marriage was a “new realy” wh implitns for the Church of England that had to be discsed and addrsed. As a nsequence, Ain Anglins – still dwellg, seems, the heart of relig darkns, and not posssg the nate English gift for muddlg through – are not yet persuad of the goodns of homosexualy or of the Christian legimacy of blsg same-sex unns. Will Ain Catholic bishops, after chastisg the Germans or Fernánz, issue a siar statement regardg Cardal McElroy of San Diego, who has recently lled to qutn the ancient Christian ia that homosexual terurse is mortally sful, tellg that we 21st-century Catholics know much more about homosexualy than did ancient moral teachers (e.

“Liberal” or “progrsive” Catholic circl have for some years now phed to loosen up the ancient l ncerng sexual nduct, pecially homosexual nduct. There are two reasons, I suggt, for this liberal foc on homosexualy.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BACKS PLANS TO BLS GAY UPL

For one, we feel a natural human sympathy for Catholics who, perhaps through no flt of their own, have a fixed homosexual orientatn, yet are told by their relign – our relign – that they mt live whout sexual affectn and pannship. For another, sce Catholicism has always regard homosexualy as a particularly extreme sexual s – a s that is not merely an offense agast God but an offense agast our animal nature self – once you give the green light to homosexualy you will also have to give to other sexual ss, e.

Once you give your approval to the blsg of homosexual unns, you will next, at least if you are logil (which humans sometim are), have to allow prits to bls premaral sexual unns and adultero unns.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND PLANS BLSGS FOR GAY COUPL

What idcy this is – this bendg of the ancient l regardg homosexualy! Blsg Gay Unns - Friday, July 7, 2023. Homo Utopian - Saturday, June 10, 2023.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

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'. Prits will have the optn to bls gay upl but n opt out.

BRISH MLIMS EXPRS ‘EP NCERN’ OVER CHURCH OF ENGLAND ‘GAY BLSG’ PROPOSALS AND ‘INTY POLICS’ CHURCH SCHOOLS

"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'. 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. The Church of England will announce that will offer public blsgs to gay and lbian upl, though will still not perform official weddgs for same-sex the change is signifint for the Church of England, the servic will only allow prits to "mark the formatn of permanent same-sex relatnships, " the Telegraph reports.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND: GAY UPL N'T MARRY BUT WILL RECEIVE 'GOD'S BLSG'

"You n make a church a ld place for gay and lbian people...

'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.

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.

BATTLE LOOMS CHURCH OF ENGLAND OVER 'BLSGS' FOR GAY MARRIAGE

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

“The ocsns on which you have received a hostile and homophobic rponse our church are shameful and for this we repent, ” the bishops wrote. Among them is a re for the “sealg of a venanted iendship, ” referrg to a type of mted same-sex relatnship that is lovg but not sexual, siar to the biblil stori of Ruth and Naomi or Jonathan and David – a type of relatnship more mon the early church that has been recently advoted by celibate gay Christians. MUSLIM lears have exprsed their “ep ncern” that their nvictns that marriage n only be between one man and one woman, and over ‘inty polics’ CofE schools were not sought by Church of England bishops ahead of next week’s General Synod cnch bate on ‘gay blsgs’ the ‘Established church’.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND TO ALLOW BLSGS FOR SAME-SEX MARRIAG BUT WILL STILL PROHIB GAY MARRIAGE SI CHURCH

In a letter to Archbishop Jt Welby, ahead of General Synod’s London gatherg (Feb 6-9) at which ‘blsg’ gay unns uld be given the green light, and CofE clergy no longer rtricted to sex only wh a heterosexual marriage, Pl Salahudd Armstrong, Managg Director of the Associatn of Brish Mlims (AoBM) exprsed his “ep ncern”.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND L OUT BLSGS FOR GAY MARRIAG

He warned the current bishops’ proposals, if implemented, would see that “every Church of England Primary School will teach that both heterosexual and homosexual marriag have equal validy, startg om this summer – which would e Mlims ep ncern.

EXPLAED: WHAT THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND HAS CID ABOUT GAY RELATNSHIPS

” Mlims also believe the Koran strictly forbids all homosexual sexual acts. Now, members will be ncerned about the potential impact of ‘gay unn blsgs’, and CofE school teachg ci and muni which are majory Mlim.

Some parishners fear the PCC’s stance means gay upl will be unable to fd a church willg to bls their civil marriage the town and surroundg £235, 000 that Great Chham pays annually to the dce to ver clergy salari and other sts reprents about 1.

After years of wranglg over how the church should al wh homosexualy, s bishops announced mid-January that they would not agree to same-sex marriage but were prepared to bls civil unns. Bell wants the church hierarchy, pecially Welby, to be more urageo takg on nservative Anglins who are not only opposed to same-sex marriage but nmn people for beg gay. ”The lawmaker's ments bed wh Parliament’s announcement earlier this month that lawmakers are draftg a bill to ban efforts to elimate or rce same-sex attractn homosexuals — often risively referred to as “nversn therapy” — England and Wal, uld dite a further shift how the Brish ernment teracts wh Williams, chief executive of Christian Concern and former lay member of the General Synod, said a statement on Wednday the apology uld also prove to be a “turng pot” and signal the cle of the CofE.