Posted on 01/29/2023 6:12:09 AM PST by Ennis85
What would the Church of England be without gay people? Well, desperately short of vicars for starters. As many as 40 per cent of Anglican clergy are said to be gay. That percentage is probably even greater for choir members. A mischievous contemporary of mine at university set herself the challenge of seducing every adult member of the choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Let’s just say Rebecca had a mountain to climb.
Without gay men, the organ lofts of our great cathedrals would grow cobwebby with disuse and the thrumming, resonant pipes fall silent. Subtract the gay organists, gay clergy, gay choir members and gay musicians from the King’s forthcoming Coronation and what would you have left? Two archbishops and a harpist, I reckon. It would be a sad, straight and tuneless occasion.
As a general rule, the higher the Anglicanism and the more “bells and smells”, the greater the gay presence. So, imagine what it must be like to be one of those committed Christians and to know that you are forbidden to marry the person you love in what is quite literally your spiritual home.
That rejection was confirmed last week when the bishops decided that they would not change the church’s fundamental teaching that “holy matrimony is between one man and one woman for life”. However, for the first time, priests will be allowed to give God’s blessing to married same-sex couples. That will allow them to have a service after being married in a civil ceremony. Such blessings will be voluntary for clergy, allowing them to opt out on theological grounds.
The Church described the move as “historic”. To many, though, it sounded like a classic CofE fudge. By giving a blessing aren’t you, er, giving your blessing? Episocopal obfuscation of the highest order.
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That didn’t take long. The usual cheap shot.
What Henry VIII wrought.
No, facts in the press.
We've all read about the gay drug-fueled sex parties in the Vatican. The italian press reports them.
The child sexual abuse has existed under at least the last 5 popes.
It is likely that 30-50% of Roman priests are gay.
Someone needs to do something.
<>Someone needs to do something.<>
Yeah, they should become Anglican.
Disagree. the leadership at every denomination that claims the name of Christ should clean house.
Haha, love that!
The recent popes are probably all gay. The last straight pope was probably 100 years ago. The Medieval popes were straight but they all had mistresses and illegitimate children.
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