Posted on 06/17/2015 6:27:50 AM PDT by marshmallow
Canon Jeremy Pemberton argues at Nottingham employment tribunal that Church of England unlawfully revoked his permission to officiate
The first priest to marry his same-sex partner has begun a discrimination case against the Church of England over its withdrawal of his right to officiate as a priest following the union.
Canon Jeremy Pemberton, who married Laurence Cunnington in April 2014, had been informed that Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS trust was withdrawing an offer of a job after Bishop Richard Inwood refused him the official licence in the diocese of Southwell and Nottingham.
The clergyman, who argues that Inwood unlawfully discriminated against him, told the first day of hearings at Nottingham employment tribunal how he felt after his permission to officiate (PTO) was revoked.
“PTOs are (only) really revoked if someone has done something serious, they’re criminally involved, is involved in an affair or has lost their capacity,” said Pemberton, the Lincolnshire Echo reported.
A spokesman for the Church of England said the church has no truck with homophobia and supports clergy who are in civil partnerships.
He added: “The Church of England’s doctrine on marriage is clear. The church quite reasonably expects its clergy to honour their commitment to model and live up to the teachings of the church. Clergy do not have the option of treating the teachings of the church as an à la carte menu and only modelling those with which they personally agree.
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Matthew 7:16 You will recognize them by their fruits. Are grapes gathered from thornbushes, or figs from thistles? 17 So, every healthy tree bears good fruit, but the diseased tree bears bad fruit. 18 A healthy tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a diseased tree bear good fruit. 19 Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. 20 Thus you will recognize them by their fruits. (ESV)
These people are delusional, and they want to force the rest of us to go along with them in their delusions.
I, for one, will not. I will rather point out that they are mentally ill, delusional, perhaps even psychotic, giving their propensity for using the threat of force to make others agree with their lunacy.
In a sane world, these pervs would be laughed out of court.
This first priest to pretend to “marry” his same-sex partner is in open rebellion against God’s laws. He is not acting as a priest of that church, and the church is morally required to discriminate on that basis. It’s like a Ford salesman who tells every customer how glad he is not to own an expensive, smelly, polluting hunk of rusting metal - of course the car dealership would fire him.
What an archaic concept! Here I thought they had the right to force what was clearly fashionable and trendy on the rest of the church. < / sarcasm >
Is there a clinical definition for ‘homophobia’?
Satan is very popular in the non-Church of England as well as their American counterpart, the Episcopal non-church.
> “You will recognize them by their fruits.”
I wonder what Matthew would think today if he got to see the double meaning in that verse...: )
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