Posted on 07/23/2017 4:40:51 PM PDT by marshmallow
Justine Greening urged faith chiefs to “keep up” with 21st Century attitudes as the Tories unveiled a string of measures to boost LGBT rights
A senior Cabinet Minister piled pressure on religious leaders today to let gay couples marry in church.
Equalities Minister Justine Greening urged faith chiefs to “keep up” with 21st Century attitudes.
She was speaking ahead of Thursday’s 50th anniversary of the decriminalisation of gay relationships.
The Government today unveiled a crackdown on homophobic playground bullying, including kids calling each other gay as an insult.
Other announcements timed to mark the 1967 Sexual Offences Act’s anniversary include allowing gay men to donate blood three months after having sex instead of a year, and making it easier for transgender people to chose their legal sex.
It was four years ago that David Cameron ’s Government legalised gay civil weddings.
Education Secretary Ms Greening, who last year revealed she was gay, was quizzed about churches letting gay couples marry.
She told Sky News’ Sophy Ridge on Sunday: “This was a massive debate when we brought forward the Same-Sex Bill.
I think it’s quite important that we recognise that for many churches, including the Church of England, that was something they were not yet willing to have in their own churches.”
But she went on: “I think it is important that the church in a way keeps up and is part of a modern country.
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This is what passes for leadership in a country that between 1914-1945 lost forever its best male genetic stock.
The grass withers, the flowers fade, but the word of our God remains forever” —Isaiah 40:8
And there we go. The heresy of Modernism, in her very own words.
Freedom of the Church from State control? Saints Thomas Becket and More pray for us!
Sick, twisted, blasphemous, unhygienic, fascistic and evil.
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