Many Brons have changed their mds on gay marriage

Contents:

• STTISH PARLIAMENT VOT TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE
• SNP LEARSHIP: YOAF FENDS CISN TO MISS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE
• STTISH EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CHRISTIAN GROUP LAMENTS CHURCH OF STLAND PRBYTERI DRIFT TOWARD ALLOWG GAY MARRIAGE AHEAD OF VOTE
• NEW POLL SHOWS STLAND OPPOSED TO 'GAY MARRIAGE'

STTISH PARLIAMENT VOT TO LEGALISE GAY MARRIAGE

The first same-sex weddgs Stland uld take place October after MSPs voted by a majory of 87 to legalise gay vote, passed by 105 to 18, me after the Sttish parliament voted down several attempts to amend the bill to add extra protectns for relig celebrants who opposed the new amendments were backed by up to 21 MSPs, chiefly Catholic and Baptist churchgoers, but Alex Neil, the Sttish health secretary, argued there were already "robt protectns" for relig anisatns and celebrants.

Tom French, policy -ordator for the Equaly Network, said: "This is a profoundly emotnal moment for many people who grew up a untry where beg gay was still a crimal offence until 1980.

SNP LEARSHIP: YOAF FENDS CISN TO MISS GAY MARRIAGE VOTE

Opponents of the measur fear that equali legislatn uld be ed to force public servants such as registrars or schoolteachers to support gay marriage. John Mason, an SNP MSP and Baptist, tabled several amendments to bolster the statutory rights of opponents of same-sex ceremoni, cludg one statg that no one uld be "pelled by any means" to solemnise a gay marriage.

"What is more likely, yet not ls tragic, is that applints wh so-lled tradnal views on marriage will be put off applyg the first place, fearg they will be brand homophobic, " he argument was risted by Jim Eadie, also an SNP MSP. "Speakg as someone who is both gay and adopted, I believe this amendment is both discrimatory and unnecsary bee sgl out beliefs about same-sex marriage of beg worthy of protectn.

"There has been a huge change my lifetime, om the btal atmosphere that existed rpect of gay people when I was a teenager and a young man, " he said. "Mr Yoaf said he had missed the vote for a "pretty ser meetg", which he said rulted the eventual release of the prisoner source, PA MediaImage ptn, Fance Secretary Kate Forb has faced cricism over her remarks about gay marriageOn Thursday, Ms Forb took to social media a bid to ret her mpaign after she lost support om several SNP policians over her ments on gay marriage. 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.

STTISH EPISPAL CHURCH APPROV GAY MARRIAGE

"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. 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.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

And Febary, a report opposg gay marriage was opposed by the Church of England's Synod.

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.

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

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.

NEW POLL SHOWS STLAND OPPOSED TO 'GAY MARRIAGE'

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”. 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.