Posted on 02/24/2018 6:00:01 PM PST by marshmallow
Cult-type 'New Religious Movements' could hold weddings in Church of England churches if proposals contained in a new bill pass, according to an Anglican bishop.
John Gummer's ecumenical marriage bill, which passed its second reading in the House of Lords on Friday, could allow 'New Religious Movements', which include controversial groups like Scientologists, the right to use Church of England buildings for weddings.
That is according to Tim Dakin, the bishop of Winchester, who spoke against the bill this morning.
The private member's bill is designed to allow Catholics, Methodists and other Christian denominations' marriages to take place in Church of England buildings.
But Bishop Dakin warned it also 'affords potential legal rights to the use of churches to New Religious Movements with which the Church of England does not have any existing formal ecumenical relationship'.
He said parliament was 'addressing questions of doctrine, creed and ecumenical dialogue, all of which ought properly to sit with the churches themselves'.
He warned 'there is a longstanding constitutional convention' that parliament does not interfere with Church matters. 'This Bill represents a departure from that convention,' he told peers in the House of Lords.
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how would we be able to tell the difference if they held ‘cult’ ceremonies, anyway (from how the CofE has gotten?)
The private member’s bill is designed to allow Catholics, Methodists and other Christian denominations’ marriages to take place in Church of England buildings.
Did he think approving homosexual “weddings” would be the end of the demands?
Ah. Like homosexual “weddings”?
A Catholic wedding in an Anglican Church?
Ridiculous. Marriage is a sacrament and the wedding service is joined to the Celebration of the Eucharist. No priest is going to perform a mass in an Anglican Church. Whatever for?
The only reason Catholic is named is to give a veneer of “respectability” to an idea that any belief, be it off the wall or one antithetically opposed to Christianity use the Anglican Church as some sort of prop rather than a Christ-centered faith in a consecrated church.
All of these One-Worlder attacks on Christianity are getting very serious indeed. The attacks originate within the Christian Church itself, from Catholic to Anglican to Episcopalian to Lutheran and so forth.
As Christ said, when he returns will there be any faith left?
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