Church of Ireland body’s pro-gay marriage stance hailed by same-sex mpaign group | Belfast News Letter

Contents:

• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: CHURCH OF IRELAND BODY CLAR GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WED
• SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: CHURCH OF IRELAND BODY CLAR GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WED
• CHURCH OF IRELAND BODY’S PRO-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE HAILED BY SAME-SEX MPAIGN GROUP
• CHURCH THAT PROMOTED SERMON ON WCH HUNTG AND PRACTIC GAY NVERSN THERAPY REGISTERED AS CHARY

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: CHURCH OF IRELAND BODY CLAR GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WED

A body wh the Church of Ireland has clared that gay upl should be allowed to be Kenh Kearon, chairman of the church missn, has prevly said the church as a whole do ‘not know s own md’ on gay issuThe revelatn is to be found buried a nsultatn rponse om The Church of Ireland’s (CoI) Church and Society is a group wh the Irish Anglin hierarchy, tablished by the General Synod 2013, which looks at social issu such as health, polics and the document qutn was sent om to the Northern Ireland Office, as part of a nsultatn to the l which will ern gay marriage NI. Specifilly the nsultatn (which end on Sunday) asked the public for views on ensurg clergy are not forced to nduct gay of the qutns asked the nsultatn was this: “Do you agree same-sex upl NI should be permted to nvert their civil partnership to marriage?

”This appears to be radil nflict wh the long-standg posn of the church, which is sentially that gay marriage is impossible by last month was quoted media reports as sayg: “The Church of Ireland affirms, acrdg to our Lord’s teachg, that marriage is s purpose a unn permanent and lifelong, for better or worse, till ath do them part, of one man wh one woman, to the excln of all others on eher si.

SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: CHURCH OF IRELAND BODY CLAR GAY PEOPLE SHOULD BE ABLE TO WED

”The mtee rponse was sent om Church of Ireland Hoe mtee self is chaired by bishop of Limerick and Killaloe, Kenh 2015, ments reported by the Church of Ireland Gazette, the bishop was quoted lamentg the lack of directn om the church over the gay marriage referendum the said: “My perceptn is that, as a church, we tried to keep our heads down and hoped that we wouldn’t be drawn to the bate...

CHURCH OF IRELAND BODY’S PRO-GAY MARRIAGE STANCE HAILED BY SAME-SEX MPAIGN GROUP

Bee, I believe, we didn’t know our own md as a Church on the issu” was put the church that the posn exprsed by the missn is facto support for gay marriage, and that this nflicts wh the Anglin church’s tablished church’s prs office rpond: “The Church’s cisn not to provi for same-sex marriage is unchanged. A proment Anglin tradnalist has dismissed as nonsensil the cisn by a major Church of Ireland body to accept gay marriag. Marchers at Belfast's gay pri para 2016Rev Tim Anrson was speakg after The News Letter broke the news last week that the Church and Society Commissn – a body set up by the general synod – has e out support of gay Northern Irish people who want to nvert civil partnerships to fully-fledged Anrson, who misters St Elizabeth’s, Dundonald, is Irish chairman of the nservative movement GAFCON (the Global Anglin Future Conference) strsed he was speakg a personal pacy rather than as a spokman for the whole Gafn blasted the missn’s stance, sayg “assum that there is more than one legimate fn of marriage - a secular fn and a relig one” is wrong bee “ unrm the Christian posn that God’s ey marriage is a lastg creatn ordance” told the News Letter: “It was ordaed by God at the begng of creatn and is as permanent as creatn self.

CHURCH THAT PROMOTED SERMON ON WCH HUNTG AND PRACTIC GAY NVERSN THERAPY REGISTERED AS CHARY

”He nclud the missn’s statement “mak no doctral sense and creat nfn wh the Christian muny and wir society” ntroversy first arose due to the ernment’s nsultatn to the l erng gay marriag Northern the ma church wrote to the ernment offerg their Church of Ireland missn wrote: “If has been cid to legalise same-sex marriage a terrory where such upl were prevly only able to form civil partnerships, should be permted for them to nvert such a partnership to a marriage. ”When this was ma public, the Church of Ireland prs office strsed that do not “alter the church’s unrstandg of how celebrat marriage” (which remas between a man and a woman) and claimed that s posn has been “ma clear” was “entirely misleadg” to imply the missn had “cid to fy the doctral posn of the Church of Ireland”, Saturday, the gay Anglin mpaign group Changg Attu Ireland that said “whilst the rponse om the missn may appear to differ om the church’s official stance... IRELAND: Church of Ireland Cleric nfirms gay partnership.

In what is believed to be the first gay unn volvg a servg Church of Ireland cleric, the Very Rev Tom Gordon, who is origally om Portadown, yterday nfirmed that he had formalised the relatnship unr new laws troduced the Republic earlier this year. The velopment seems certa to re-igne the fierce and long-nng Anglin bate about homosexualy. Bishop Burrows is seen as beg one of the church's most liberal bishops and prr to beg appoted a bishop said that he regularly gave munn to practisg homosexual upl.

Church is divid on homosexualy issue. It was one of the few tim when the church's divisns over homosexualy me fully to public view.

The Archbishop of Armagh and primate of all Ireland had suggted that the church may have to accept same-sex unns if science prov that homosexualy is blogilly pretermed. In a speech, he said: "It has not yet been nclively shown that for some mal and some femal homosexualy and homosexual acts are natural rather than unnatural.

"If such to be shown, will be necsary to acknowledge the full implitns of that new aspect of the tth, and that sight applied to tablish and acknowledge what may be a new stat for homosexual relatnships wh the life of the church. "If is proven (that homosexualy is natural) mak no difference at all, " he said. That has now changed and even before today's revelatn there has been fierce bate on the pag of the Church of Ireland Gazette over recent months about the church's approach to homosexualy.

The Church of England is probably several years ahead of the Church of Ireland on the issue of the church's approach to homosexualy. Of all the Christian church, the Anglin church the UK and Ireland has the broast spectm of theologil views and therefore has the most nfed posn on homosexualy.