Church of England ostracised after backs blsgs for gay upl

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

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.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

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.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND OSTRACISED AFTER BACKS BLSGS FOR 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. "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. ) Pollg June found that more than three-quarters of Brons now support gay marriage, up om jt over half 2012.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK 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.

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

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".

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”.

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

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. "Helen Kg, the vice-chairman of Synod's genr and sexualy group, said: "There will be people leavg the Church, there always have been, cludg gay people... "Jt Welby is a difficult posn, I acknowledge that, and of urse what we do here will be seen by the Anglin Communn who have very different views -- the Epispal Church Ameri allows gay marriage; church Ai do not.

"The Church of England Evangelil Council scribed the blsgs vote as "a lose-lose posn for everyone the Church of England" which "has settled nothg and has only served to epen divisns and e eper hurt" Welby was tears durg the bate as he addrsed a potential Anglin Communn spl, warng that there was a risk that there were “people who will die, women who will be raped, children who will be tortured” anti-gay untri given the troductn of blsgs. Image source, Tham Valley PoliceImage ptn, Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were both sgle and vulnerableBoth Peter Farquhar and Ann Moore-Mart were relig, sgle and whout Farquhar retired as Stowe School's head of English 2004 and was ved to be a gut lecturer at the Universy of Buckgham, where he met stunt the urt se, the jury heard how Mr Farquhar had a wi circle of iends but he was lonely and, as a gay man, he stggled wh his sexualy, regardg as patible wh his Anglin fah.

Gay clergy are permted to be relatnships so long as they are rights mpaigners say that some parish are unwelg or hostile, and some s there has been emotnal or spirual bishops’ move me as a three-year missn to exame issu of sexualy and inty proposed further “engagement and learng” by parish.