Posted on 02/22/2010 5:41:45 PM PST by Steelfish
February 23, 2010 Anglican Bishops Back End To Ban On Gay Civil Partnerships In Church
Gay couples could soon be allowed to “marry” in church after a decision by Anglican bishops and other clergy to support a relaxation of the ban.
Senior bishops in the Lords have told The Times that they will support an amendment to the Equality Bill next month that will lift the ban on civil partnership ceremonies in religious premises. The amendment would remove the legislative prohibition on blessings of homosexual couples and open the door to the registration of civil partnerships in churches, synagogues, mosques and all other religious premises.
In a letter to The Times a group of Church of England clerics say today that religious denominations should be allowed to register civil partnerships on their premises if they wish. It would be up to individual denominations whether to offer civil partnership ceremonies.
The Church of England, which along with the wider Anglican Communion is divided over gay ordinations and same-sex blessings, will maintain its official ban. But if the legislative prohibition is lifted, as seems likely, the Church’s own ban is likely to be ignored by some clergy.
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This is actually something to applaud. Repeal of this law by parliament is about getting government out of religion. It is a step by the UK toward our 1st Amendment.
But if the Anglicans actually perform gay marriages/unions, that is something for Christians in the Anglican Church to oppose.
Once the sun never set on the British Empire. Now the nation of England is a setting sun.
I read the article, and I am trying to figure out how Martin Luther is connected with this? Maybe someone could clarify the connection.
Thes people are working for the Devil not Christ.
Actually, the light you are referring to is from the rising moon (god). Islam will be the new state religion of the British isles soon.
Sad is that is to contemplate.
If Luther was alive, the things he would be saying to the Anglicans would be rather rough and unfit to print this day and age. That what he would say to the likes of the ELCA would be more direct.
Although Anglicanism is Henry VIII’d break from Rome, the overall Protestant churches that now condone homosexual relationships as part of a legitimate understanding of Scripture is traceable to Luther’s own view that scripture alone can be interpreted subjectively without reference to a one true Church unmoored from apostolic traditions and revelation.
Pride, like Luther's, leads to disobedience, like Luther's, which leads to apostasy, like Luther's - and like that of the Anglican Church.
This makes no sense to me.
Meanwhile, the authorities in England are about to ban skirts in school, saying it isn’t fair to the transgendered to have gender-specific clothing.
WE are a setting sun. The way of the modern world is fascism.
You are generally correct- But priestly pederasty was aberrational not part of official Church doctrine.
The Reformers argued that the individual could interpret scripture for himself. So first he needed it in his language, if he didn’t know Latin or Greek or Hebrew. Thus to each, his own interpretation. While Luther did admit to the sin of heresy it was a fluid concept that was in contradiction to his own theological view of Scripture. This is the “original flaw” that has now run it’s course to corrupt whatever doctrinal basis might exist in support of an orthodox (homosexuality as a sin) “Church” teaching within the Protestant community.
So, is that the original title, or did you decide to slap a few Christians with the last two words?
I surely hope someone will do that, for as a llifelong Lutheran (age 83), I want to know whether I should make a change.
No, not at all. Simply providing a historical backdrop about the law of unintended consequences.
Two points.
1. The Catholic Catechism refers to homosexual conduct as “intrinsically disordered” and a grave moral sin. We are not talking here about personal sin.
2. You may be right about Luther. But you are dead wrong about Lutheranism- which was my point. Gay men and women now are formally ordained ministers of the Lutheran denomination.
So, as for your assertion of “anti-evangelical” hatred or “ignorance” it might help to be properly informed before branding around your baseless volleys.
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