Posted on 03/09/2022 6:38:15 PM PST by marshmallow
The Bishop of Sheffield has accused evangelical clergy worried about the UK government’s upcoming ban on gay conversion therapy of causing ‘unnecessary anguish’ to LGBT people.
Bishop Pete Wilcox wrote to the clergy in his South Yorkshire diocese following the publication of a letter signed by 2,500 Christian ministers and pastoral workers to Liz Truss, the government minister responsible for the consultation over planned legislation to ban conversion therapy.
The Ministers’ Consultation Response, signed by over 700 Church of England ministers, expressed concerns that the legislation is so badly drafted that biblically orthodox ministers could go to jail for teaching the traditional Christian sexual ethic to individuals in their pastoral care.
Bishop Wilcox told the clergy of Sheffield Diocese in a letter of February 21 co-signed by Bishop of Doncaster Sophie Jelley:
‘Bishop Sophie and I are fully committed to the stance adopted by the General Synod in November 2017, namely that “conversion therapy has no place in the modern world, is unethical, potentially harmful and not supported by evidence”.
‘Individual lay and clergy leaders are, however, at liberty to dissent from this view and to do so as part of an official government consultation is entirely legitimate. Notwithstanding the motion passed at General Synod, it is not a disciplinary matter for individuals to express convictions contrary to it.
(Excerpt) Read more at anglican.ink ...
When the bishop is telling you that the Word of God is wrong...
oh for God,s sake!
no wonder no one goes to churches any more.
damn that pesky Scripture ...
I thought the Anglican clergy was "mainline" Make up your minds, protestants!
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