Posted on 10/13/2022 6:14:52 PM PDT by marshmallow
Labour’s Ben Bradshaw says church is ‘actively pursuing a campaign of discrimination’ against lesbian and gay people
The Church of England must move swiftly to welcome lesbian and gay people and embrace same-sex marriage or face mounting questions in parliament about its role as the established church of the country, a senior MP has said.
The church was “actively pursuing a campaign of discrimination” against lesbian and gay people that was incompatible with its role as a church for England, said Ben Bradshaw, the Labour MP for Exeter and a former secretary of state for culture, media and sport.
He was prompted to speak out after the C of E barred the late archbishop Desmond Tutu’s daughter, an ordained Anglican priest, from officiating at her godfather’s funeral last month because she is in a same-sex marriage.
Mpho Tutu van Furth was forced to hold the funeral service in a marquee next to St Michael and All Angels church in Wentnor, Shropshire.
“This was a particularly high-profile, egregious example. But cruelty like that is practised on lesbian and gay people in the church all the time, every day – people you never hear about in the headlines, people whose lives are destroyed – and it can’t go on,” said Bradshaw.
The C of E “enjoys extraordinary and unique privileges in its role in the nation’s life”, he said, citing the 26 seats in the House of Lords reserved for Anglican bishops. Yet it excluded a significant minority of the population, he said. This was “unsustainable”, especially as Anglican churches in Scotland, Wales, the US, Canada, New Zealand and elsewhere conducted or blessed same-sex marriages.
The C of E has been bitterly divided on issues of sexuality for decades. It allows its clergy to be in same-sex relationships as long as they are........
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If the Church of England is a Christian church, then it only needs to answer to God. Follow the Bible.
Oh Nooo!!! The dreaded QUESTIONS!
The established secular Woke Church trumps the established Church of England.
An excellent illustration as to why Bible-believing churches adhere firmly to the non-entanglement between church and state (aka, Separation of Church and State.)
No one expects the English Parliament Inquisition!
If the C of E is getting worse, that in in parallel with the English ruling class getting worse.
The Church of England (Anglicans) was founded by the state, that is, King Henry VIII when he decided to crush and take over the Catholic Church, and whoever is the monarch of England is the head of the Anglican Church. So now it’s Charles, liberal fruitloop of the month.
I thought Desmond was queer,
Moron should read the Bible.
So they are considering abandoning Biblical truth for the sake of the whims of politicians...hence why there should not be a government owned church...theology should not change based on the political environment.
Government homosexuals bringing sexual deviancy to the Church of England. Nice.
Right; if it is Caesar’s church, they must do Caesar’s bidding.
Will there be ‘’The Comfy Chair’’?
The church should always welcome sinners, but not welcome sin.
>> If the Church of England is a Christian church, then it only needs to answer to God. Follow the Bible. <<
This is why Charles III should not be King; he is no Christian yet the call will be his to make.
Mat 13:31 Another parable put he forth unto them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like to a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and sowed in his field:
Mat 13:32 Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the air come and lodge in the branches thereof.
Remember when the Gaystapo was assuring churches and pastors that they could continue with the values and customs they always adhered to?
Yeah, that lie didn’t age well.
Here in America, they are still attacking, with lawsuits, private Christian schools which want to uphold biblical morality.
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