The Church of England is poised to offer public blessing services for same-sex
couples in a historic shift in teaching.
A long-awaited review of church teaching by a panel of bishops recommends
lifting the ban on special services which will amount to weddings in all but
name.
Although the Church will continue to opt out of carrying out gay marriages,
when they become legal next year the landmark report recommends allowing
priests to conduct public services "to mark the formation of permanent same
sex relationships".
The report repeatedly speaks of the need for the Church to "repent" for the
way gay and lesbian people have been treated in the past.
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3 comments:
Why not extend a marriage ceremony to them? If they really think these unions should be blessed and that the church must repent of its treatment of homosexuals, that would be the intellectually consistent thing to do.
They will eventually but the Evangelicals in the C of E will fight it. (How the C of E is different from the Episcopalians: no state church in America so evangelicals left for other denominations.) I predict most English people still won't go to church.
Erastianism. This change is based on the same principle that gave the king an annulment he didn't deserve, even though he and the continental Protestants never imagined nor wanted what the mainline became.
Now the CHURCH needs to repent?
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