Let me guess, he wants to force the churches to do with the power of law?
I wonder when the UK will welcome Pedophiles or Practice Polygamy and Beastiality into marying in the church?
The Ravenous Wolf works Overtime in the UK...
the government minister of underpants?
“...said he wanted clergy to be “much more open” to the idea of treating civil partnership ceremonies like traditional marriages.”
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A perfect example of how the Left has seized the initiative concerning the wording that frames how issues are debated.
“much more open = embracing perversion counter to the norms of 5000 years of human history.
If we aren’t “open”, we are of course, “closed-minded”, “rigid” and “hateful”.
palp
How about NAMBLA?
Didn't they do this in the churches in Sodom and Gomorrah?
My how far Britian has fallen. Now they will dictate pagan practices for Christians? Interestingly obscene.
The church should not be mandated on what ceremonies they can or cannot perform for whatever reason.
Plenty of Unitarian churches out there that will happily perform the ceremonies, no need to force other churches or temples to perform a ceremony the congregation doesn’t want performed.
Is the Bible considered an inconvenient detail in this guy’s church? I’ve always been of the opinion that churches should welcome all who are sincerely seeking God, including those struggling with homosexual temptations, but that there is no connection between welcoming the person and embracing their behavior. I don’t believe that someone sincerely seeking God could believe that a Christian church should celebrate homosexuality, any more than a sincere believer could argue that we should celebrate adultery or murder. God is entitled to change the rules on this issue, but a real Christian would wait for God to tell us about His decision to make that change, rather than changing the rules and God’s Word on our own initiative.
This is exactly why some religions are against gay marriage. They knew it wouldn’t be long before they were forced to sanctify them. The Libs keep proving us right, and unfortunately, no one cares.
Homosexual divorces, however, deserve their own reality show! Oh, get the popcorn, Michael and Chad are going to gouge each others’ eyes out over the Liza Minella autograph and custody of their 2 siamese cats, Celie and Sugar. Oh no, you DIDN’T claim the Titanium cookware from Germany!! You bitch!!
They should build special chapels in toilet stalls.
Unnngh!!!
As I read it (mostly from Mark Steyn) the U.K. has been circling the drain for some time. As the welfare state slowly disintegrates, Muslim influence is growing stronger and stronger while loony-left politicians keep pushing evermore radical ideas - and apparently, the British people are buying into all of it. Bureaucrats from government agencies with nice-sounding names attempting to ‘mandate’ that independent churches perform ‘weddings’ for same-sex ‘couples’ is just another move in the direction of oblivion for jolly old England. Too bad. I always wanted to visit London. Not so much, now.