The bishops will remend that "prayers for God's blsg" for gay upl be adopted, the BBC expects.
Contents:
- 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
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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.
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
Labour’s Ben Bradshaw says church is ‘actively pursug a mpaign of discrimatn’ agast lbian and gay people * church of england gay *
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.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND OSTRACISED AFTER BACKS BLSGS FOR GAY UPL
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. 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.
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
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. "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.
BRISH MLIMS EXPRS ‘EP NCERN’ OVER CHURCH OF ENGLAND ‘GAY BLSG’ PROPOSALS AND ‘INTY POLICS’ CHURCH SCHOOLS
The rultg aln ernment ially said would reta a ban on gay marriage.
C OF E MT WELE GAY PEOPLE OR FACE QUTNS PARLIAMENT, SAYS MP
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.
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”.