British Bishop Rebukes Sydney Anglican Leader's Call for Gay Marriage Supporters to Leave Church

The Guardian (UK) ^ | 10/22/19 | Harriet Sherwood

[marshmallow]

Bishop of Liverpool says he regrets that Archbishop Glenn Davies ‘seems to want to exclude people rather than to engage with them’

A senior Church of England bishop has expressed regret at comments by the Archbishop of Sydney that supporters of marriage equality should leave the Anglican church.

Reflecting sharp divisions within the global Anglican communion over LGBT+ issues, the Bishop of Liverpool, Paul Bayes, said: “I regret that the archbishop [of Sydney] seems to want to exclude people rather than to engage with them within the wider Anglican family.”

Archbishop Glenn Davies said last week that those who supported same-sex marriage should abandon the church.

“If people wish to change the doctrine of our church, they should start a new church or join a church more aligned to their views – but do not ruin the Anglican church by abandoning the plain teaching of scripture,” he said. “Please leave us.”

Davies’ remarks drew rebukes from other representatives of the church around Australia last week, with many interpreting his comments as being directed at everyone in the church – though he later said they were aimed at bishops rather than parishioners. Now other representatives from the UK have joined in.

[gibsonguy]

Paul Bayes should be removed too.

[missnry]

Why use ‘their language’ in this argument? Marriage equality... that is their definition to hide the agenda. Get them to defend Pedophile Marriage, Sodomite Marriage, Bestiality Marriage! Break their line of defense from obscuring the issue from what it really is. Make the LGBTQP+ defend the indefensible! Get them to defend that a 40 year old man can marry an 11 year old child! When they can defend that in public then you have your public outcry against “marriage equality”! People have been duped because we fight on their rules. Hit them with the truth of the gospel. Sin is sin!

[FES0844]

God’s way or man’s way.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Are there still heterosexuals in the UK?

[Seruzawa]

“Engage in conversation”, “Don’t exclude” = preambles to giving in.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

I side with the Anglican leaders. Homosexuals are people doing something wrong. For them to sit in church is hypocritical.

[Midwesterner53]

Maybe he just wants to exclude sin? (Bishop, do you remember that word?)

[trebb]

I side with the Anglican leaders. Homosexuals are people doing something wrong. For them to sit in church is hypocritical.

I agree that they should not be part of the church's management structure but everyone who "sits in church" is a sinner and according to Jesus, if one breaks the least of the commandments, one breaks ALL of the commandments. Why did Jonah end up in the belly of the whale?