Posted on 05/11/2023 7:12:50 PM PDT by marshmallow
Dear marriage supporter,
The Church of England has been accused of abandoning marriage by claiming it is no better than cohabitation for family life.
The claim comes in a major new report from the Archbishops’ Commission on Families and Households called ‘Love Matters’. The report summary states that “the quality of family relationships matters more than the form a family takes”. In a section headed ‘Celebrating Diversity in Family Life’, one of the key messages is that: “It is critical to recognise and value all kinds of loving couple relationships.”
The Commission Chair Janet Walker told Premier Christian News: “What we want to get across as a message in this report, is that any relationship, including a Christian marriage, that is committed and loving is just wonderful for people to flourish, at the same time saying that that doesn’t mean that other kinds of relationships are any lesser if they are committed and loving.”
The Marriage Foundation’s Harry Benson slammed the report as a “capitulation to the times in which we live” and damning marriage with “faint praise”. There is not “a single mention of the relative stability and advantage that being married brings compared to not being married”, he said.
Coming amid the national Church’s plans to bless individuals in same-sex relationships, the simultaneous abandonment of the gold standard of marriage in favour of “celebrating diversity in family life” shows once again that when real marriage is jettisoned in favour of a counterfeit, it’s never long before marriage itself is sidelined.
(Excerpt) Read more at mailchi.mp ...
Heresy!
My goodness - since it is a metaphor for Christ’s relationship with His church, that’s quite an abandonment of scripture if this is accurate.
The Church of England abandoned Scripture many long years ago.
It's right there in their own prayer book.
These church leaders have no more belief in God or the Bible than your standard farm animal. For them it’s just a cushy job. No more. No less.
When the world accepts pedophilia, these same church leaders who are willing to “bless” all sexual intercourse practices, will be eagerly blessing adult-child sex.
No ... they're celebrating perversity.
Nothing special about marriage?
And will he still love her in the morning?
Socialists don’t believe anything is worthwhile unless it serves the purpose of the state.
These people don’t seriously believe in Jesus.
It is just a piece of paper. It is just a bit of cloth. It is just some water.
We have talked ourselves right out of understanding that symbols have power. And that making vows before God and our fellow man have meaning.
The logical fallacy here is in (strongly) implying that the "quality" is not heavily dependent upon the "form."
Regards,
What an EVIL statement. Liberals DESTROY EVERYTHING they TOUCH!
Which means there’s no respect for God who created marriage.
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