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ARCHBISHOP OF YORK SAYS GAY SEX IS OK IF ‘MTED, STABLE, FAHFUL RELATNSHIPS'
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE
CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE
WHAT NOW FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND GAY MARRIAGE?
CHURCH OF ENGLAND WILL NOT REGNIZE ‘GAY MARRIAGE’ BUT WILL ALLOW CERTA CEREMONI

ARCHBISHOP OF YORK SAYS GAY SEX IS OK IF ‘MTED, STABLE, FAHFUL RELATNSHIPS'

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The church do not currently allow for same-sex marriage and do not officially sanctn same-sex civil marriag, while gay clergy are permted to have a partner providg they rema Bishop of London, the Right Rev Dame Sarah Mullally, said bishops tend to “draw up scenars for different out” to put forward to the synod, though she add she did not know what “the oute of this procs is gog to be” years, LGBT+ rights groups have mpaigned on the issue, allegg that parish n be unwelg and hostile, which some s has led to emotnal or spirual abe.

However, some warn ntual lays over the cisn is g prsn among many gay and transgenr Christians, sometim leadg to suici. 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. | Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagThe Church of England’s Archbishop of York, Stephen Cottrell, rpond to prsure to answer whether homosexualy and same-sex marriage are sful by sayg the CofE's new stance on the issue is that 's OK, as long as upl are "mted, stable, fahful relatnships, " addg that same-sex married upl will be "weled fully to the life of the Church, on their terms.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND BISHOPS REFE TO BACK GAY MARRIAGE

"This on the heels of the nomatn’s recent cisn not to officiate same-sex marriag but to offer blsgs for same-sex upl civil partnerships wh s Rad Four’s William Crawley asked the archbishop whether the CofE’s recent cisn not to officiate same-sex weddgs while allowg gay marriag to be blsed was a “b of a fudge.

”Crawley then asked if the nomatn believ “gay sex is s, ” to which the archbishop replied, “Well, what we are sayg is that physil and sexual timacy belongs mted, stable, fahful relatnships and therefore where we see a mted, stable, fahful relatnship between two people of the same sex, we are now a posn where those people n be weled fully to the life of the Church, on their terms. The ocsns on which you have received a hostile and homophobic rponse our church are shameful, and for this we repent.

'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.

MANY BRONS HAVE CHANGED THEIR MDS ON GAY MARRIAGE

"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.

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.

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”.

WHAT NOW FOR THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND AND GAY MARRIAGE?

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. 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. What is the Church of England’s stance on Homosexualy?