Posted on 05/24/2022 8:03:01 PM PDT by marshmallow
For same-sex couples, being gay and being a Christian doesn’t always fit together easily, especially when they are making plans for their wedding day. They may be welcomed week-after-week to worship within the Church of England, but it is a welcome that is not extended to hosting their marriage ceremony.
But one vicar, who is part of the team leading a project reviewing the church’s position on same-sex relationships says he believes the church has reached a point where change in some form is now inevitable. It means the church could be closer than ever to allowing gay couples to marry.
Same-sex weddings were made legal in England and Wales in 2014, but those same laws also protected the Church of England’s right to NOT hold such ceremonies without the fear of being taken to court under equality legislation.
Eight years on, the church is pulling together comments from congregations all over the country who have been asked to reflect on whether same-sex couples should be allowed to marry in church.
It is an issue I personally wrestle with. I am gay and starting to think about planning my own wedding and when people ask me what sort of ceremony I would like, I don’t yet have an answer because I know that one option that is not open to me is to have a ceremony in my church.
That’s why I set out to investigate what is a difficult issue for the church in the hope that it would help me understand my own feelings on the subject. I’m not someone who is campaigning for change, but instead I am trying to better understand the passionate views on both sides of the debate.
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You can't read any passages from the Bible pertaining to marriage and its purpose in creation, either. Does that not give them a clue?
Since 2002, you can get remarried if divorced in a C of E church if there are special circumstances, but gay marriage will soon be OK.
UK is more rapidly circling the drain, why stop now?
That comes to pass and it’s no longer a church.
I thought they already had gay marriage.
Henry VIII is facepalming in his crypt.
Eeee-yeahhhh, NO.
You can’t marry in the church.
If you want the social and legal contract of marriage it can be done outside the church.
My conservative pastor son was just over there. Went to a CofE cathedral in Sheffield. Vicar was female and sermon was 5 minutes. Barely anyone there.
When I was there...I played in small orchestra and was involved in church. It was going WOKE then...and that was in the 90’s.
Yep.
Abomination of desolation?
Their American affiliate, Episcopal Church USA, has performed sodomy “marriages” for the last few years.
Part of me would like to see England’s old cathedrals returned to the Catholic Church, but sadly Catholics are facing the same LGBT onslaught from the German branch, Pope Francis, liberal Jesuits, etc., and there’s no guarantee that Catholics will be able to withstand it any better than the Anglicans did.
Anne Boleyn was unavailable for comment.
The EC has been there for several years in the U.S. I remember that when marriage was radically redefined by a Court in 2015, Episcopal Church officials mandated that same-sex clergy who were living together domestically were required to get “married” or cease living together. That was never enforced.
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