Posted on 06/23/2014 6:26:35 PM PDT by marshmallow
Rev Andrew Cain puts wedding pictures on Facebook as first cleric to marry same sex partner stripped of permission to work as a priest
A second priest has defied the Church of England's official line to marry his same sex partner. On Saturday, the Rev Andrew Cain, vicar of St James church in West Hampstead, London, posted on Facebook pictures of his wedding to Stephen Foreshew.
The wedding took place as the first priest to marry his partner, Canon Jeremy Pemberton, confirmed that he had been stripped of the permission to work as a priest in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.
Church authorities face difficulties if they try to prevent clergy from contracting perfectly legal marriages.
Both church law and employment law offer protections. Cain, the London vicar, holds his job by the traditional freehold, which means it is almost impossible to dismiss him for doctrinal offences. If the matter goes to court, it will be difficult for the church to argue that its opposition to gay marriage is not doctrinal.
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Some things are more important for a “priest” than doing God’s work.
It seems to reinforce the perception of gays as being unable to get over themselves, and, more, to make their groins the sole motivation in everything they do, then somehow cloak it all in a faux legitimacy with spin about equality.
Be sure to post video, Darks.
Honestly, as wrong as Henry VIII was for all that he did, I’m pretty darn sure that he would have nothing of this. These guys would be lucky if they didn’t have their heads chopped off.
I have never heard it said that Henry VIII was a sodomite.
Vlah! Vlah!
Lol.
“Mommy, why is that man with fangs flapping like an epileptic bat as he plummets to the ground?”
First thing that came to mind.
Ah, yes ... Vlah! That hasn’t crossed my mind for a while.
It’s been too busy for it!
Everyone’s so overcommitted these days.
The way it goes these days.
Can they be fired?
Okay, thanks for answering my question.
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