C of E’s Ideological Capitulation Makes More Clergy Resignations Inevitable

Anglican Mainstream (UK) ^ | 5/28/19 | Andrew Symes

[marshmallow]

Last week the MailOnline carried a lengthy article about an Essex vicar who has resigned from his parish. This was considered a newsworthy story by a secular outlet because it highlights an issue of serious concern for many people, not just practising Christians: the increasingly aggressive promotion of LGBT ideology in schools.

Rev John Parker pastors a thriving congregation and also, like many other clergy, acts as a governor of the local Church of England Primary school, state-funded, but supposedly retaining a Christian ethos which makes these schools popular with parents. As the article explains, when the head teacher announced to governors and staff that an eight-year old child at the school had ‘transitioned’, Rev Parker asked some reasonable questions about the circumstances, and what preparations the school was planning to make. He discovered that his views were unwelcome: not only had the head teacher, backed by the local authority, already made all the decisions, she also arranged for radical trans activist group Mermaids to ‘train’ governors and staff. Rev Parker attended this session and questioned the unscientific gender ideology being promoted. Again his views were dismissed and discussion was shut down. He appealed to the Diocesan Education department, only to be told that they backed the school in their plan to promote an “inclusive environment”.

A source has told Anglican Mainstream:

The education department of the Diocese provided no support for Christian governors about procedures that respected children of Christian parents, or those of other faiths or those that held to traditional beliefs, nor safeguarding concerns expressed to the head. The Diocese advised the Head Teacher in having no discussion of procedure or communication with parents during or after the child’s transition. The Diocesan advice to the Head Teacher supported the visit of Mermaids.

Parker says he had been......

[Grampa Dave]

The last paragraph summarizes this long, sad saga and outcome for this good priest:

. But a more realistic analysis would conclude that whether the Church of England leadership has deliberately abandoned biblical orthodoxy in favour of the new LGBT orthodoxy, or whether it is just confused, pliable and responding to individual cases out of ignorance or fear, it can no longer claim to be a trustworthy institution for the preservation and promotion of orthodox Christian faith.

[hinckley buzzard]

C of E— a dead church walking. In another ten years it will have melted into some nondescript “ecumenical” porridge.

[nickedknack]

The Worldwide Anglican Communion is a mess, the disintegration of which is laid at the feet of the provinces in the USA, UK, and Canada. The faithful provinces of the Southern Cone are fighting an uphill battle. Satan is loose in the world and permeates many cultures and societies.

[Fred Hayek]

The Church of England is no longer Christian. Sad for a church that spread the Gospel to corners of the globe. Ichabod. The Glory has departed.
Many churches in Africa and parts of South America remain faithful. They best form their own communion.

[Albion Wilde]

bump

[Cecily]

Members of the British royal family have recently given support and positive affirmation to Mermaids.