Posted on 04/10/2013 9:14:35 AM PDT by marshmallow
The Church of England yesterday gave a green light to wedding-style services for couples in civil partnerships despite its official opposition to same-sex marriage.
A report from the Church’s doctrine watchdog urged priests to devise “pastoral accommodations” for gay couples” and to be “flexible”.
It said the aim was to enable them to enjoy a “closer approximation” to marriage.
The senior bishop who drafted the missive to priests insisted that it did not amount to a policy u-turn and that an official ban on formal "blessings" for civil partnerships remained in place.
But he said it was clear there was a need for committed same-sex couples to be given recognition and “compassionate attention” from the Church, including special prayers.
Liberal priests, who already conduct unofficial dedication and thanksgiving for gay couples who are not allowed to marry, said it amounted to the first official endorsement for what they do.
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No separation of church means....
“...I never knew you...”
Progressive churches rot and die. Ask Oliver White.
Ahhhh, we were ALL warned of Satan taking over our churches.
True Houses of Christ, built upon the rock of Peter are becoming more and more difficult to find.
Everyone of them seems to be infested with evil.
Vicar's got the clapper.
BTW, if you think the Roman's have a problem with boy-buggers (of course they do) in orders, check out the Anglicans. The higher churched, the worse.
Another step down the figurative rabbit hole.
The Lord’s Prayer.
“Lead us not into temptation and deliver us from evil”
The Church of England just shot another prayer down the tubes.
Rabbits don’t go down that hole. Too much magma and sulfuric gases . . .
Nothing does more to kill a church than when it conforms to the world.
African missionaries now consider europe a mission field. They are 100% correct. They will get a much smaller harvest before the muslims take over.
What? You mean they didn’t already?
Seems everytime I read anything about the church of Henry8 in the last several years they are oozing lavender.
What? You mean they didn’t already?
Seems everytime I read anything about the church of Henry8 in the last several years they are oozing lavender.
Here’s your 30 pieces of silver, Archbishop, I hope you enjoy it.
If the church doesn't believe that there is anything wrong with homosexual sodomy then there is no reason not to give recognition and "compassionate attention" to any kind of sex-partnership. If any group of people doing anything with one another is just wonderful, it would be inconsistent not to embrace them all equally.
Proverbs 28:4 “They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.”
Ephesians 5:11 Have nothing to do with the fruitless deeds of darkness, but rather expose them.
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Equality for All!!!
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