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• CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
• MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
• CHURCH OF ENGLAND OSTRACISED AFTER BACKS BLSGS FOR GAY UPL
• 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
• C OF E MT WELE GAY PEOPLE OR FACE QUTNS PARLIAMENT, SAYS MP

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

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. ”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 meetg as support for marriage for gay upl is growg wh the church, most notably among evangelil members of the epispate who have long opposed .

This summer, at the Anglin Communn’s all-bishops meetg known as the Lambeth Conference, the current archbishop of Canterbury, Jt Welby, tried to mollify nservative bishops by reaffirmg a 1998 claratn that gay sex is a s, while reassurg liberals by sayg he would not punish natnal church the Communn that allow prits to marry same-sex upl. Conservative bishops om the global south lled Welby’s refal to disciple church over gay marriage “a lamentable posn, ” but none threatened to leave. Clergy and parish who do not agree to gay marriage ought to have the right to “distance themselv om the parts of the Church that wele and affirm same-sex relatnship.

At the same time, Chsun said, there are problems for those who are gay wh the Church of England, sayg is “not safe for those same-sex unns.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

The Church Wal offers blsgs to civilly married gay upl. '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. "However, he said they would ntue to mpaign for the Church to change s teachg on marryg gay said: "This isn't over.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND OSTRACISED AFTER BACKS BLSGS FOR GAY UPL

"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 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.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012. 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.

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

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. A group of mps led by Ben Bradshaw, a gay Anglin, is lookg at ways to amend the legislatn to allow willg prits and parish to take part, which they argue uld also help boost dwdlg numbers the aisl. The Church of England is to be ostracised by the body that claims to reprent the majory of Anglins after backed blsgs for gay the first time s history, General Synod, the Church of England's legislative body, voted on Thursday for virs to be allowed to give same-sex upl, cludg those civil marriag, prayers of Archbishop of Canterbury herald the vote as "a new begng".

C OF E MT WELE GAY PEOPLE OR FACE QUTNS PARLIAMENT, SAYS MP

However, wh gay church marriag still banned and the blsgs bate exposg wi rifts between liberals, nservativ and morat the Church, the Archbishop of York admted that "we are divid on this as a church and those divisns n ep" Thursday night, the Global South Fellowship of Anglin Church (GSFA), which claims to reprent 75 per cent of Anglins worldwi, warned the rult had "triggered a wispread loss of nfince" Jt Welby, who as Archbishop of Canterbury is the worldwi Anglin Communn's spirual is unrstood that the Church of England disput the number of Anglins the GSFA Monday, 12 of the 42 global Anglin provc will meet to "take cisive steps towards re-settg the Anglin Communn", acrdg to GSFA. ”Synod's three ho of bishops, clergy and laymen approved the blsgs for gay upl on Thursday by 250 to 181, wh 10 abstentns.

They will be troduced as early as the summer, what bishops signed as a promise, after they rejected same-sex marriage last month after six years of reform was passed after eight hours of highly charged bate, which saw the Archbishop of Canterbury fight back tears at one pot, while gay members ma passnate speech for the Church to “love them back” and stop “holdg to ransom” on marriage, and laymen told bishops to “pay attentn to their power”.

Tradnalists secured a victory by sertg a clse to the approved blsgs motn to “endorse the cisn of the College and Hoe of Bishops not to propose any change to the doctre of marriage", which helped plate nservativ but furiated some members also opted to reject two attempts to brg a vote on gay marriage before them eher July 2023 or wh the next two years, though majori were tight.