Posted on 04/21/2014 7:45:55 PM PDT by marshmallow
Archbishop of Canterbury suggests blessing gay marriages would divide Anglican Church because some worshippers in Africa would never support homosexuality
The Archbishop of Canterbury has suggested he is powerless to provide blessings for gay marriages because to do so would split the global Anglican Church.
In an interview with The Telegraph, the Most Rev Justin Welby says that the Church had probably caused “great harm” to homosexuals in the past — but there was not always a “huge amount” that could be done now to rectify the situation.
Although indicating that he was sympathetic to calls for the Church to publicly honour gay relationships, the Archbishop says that it is “impossible” for some followers in Africa to support homosexuality. In the interview, the leader of the Anglican Church, which has 77 million followers globally, speaks movingly of the persecution faced by Christians in parts of the world. He indicates that the Church must not take a step that would cut off these groups, most of them in the third world, however much this angers parts of society in Britain.
The introduction of same-sex marriage in England and Wales last month has brought divisions within the Church of England to a new intensity.
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So the UK Anglicans get a lot of money and resources from the Anglicans in Africa? You would think it would be going the other way, he seems to be saying that the Anglicans in Africa won’t let the Anglicans in the UK help them if the Anglicans in the UK go full bore ‘homosexual union blessing.’
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Good King Harry would have torched this Bishop's petticoats in one Hell of a hurry.
“Perhaps the answer to that is in its origin. A religion created for the convenience of a certain royalty.”
Constantine the Great, the pagan emperor who invented Christianity for political reasons in 325 CE, like a 4th century L. Ron Hubbard.
What religion did Constantine invent?
Hear, hear!
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