” male priests “
If you are a queer you are not a priest.
Mr Dudley said he was unrepentant. He said he had written to Bishop Chartres 18 months ago for guidance on blessings for same-sex couples in civil partnerships, but was told the Church’s House of Bishops had not approved them.
‘Bishop Chartres asked me not to offer them and I do not offer them,’ he said.
‘But if close friends ask me to bless them, I do not say no.
‘It would be an act of hypocrisy to do anything else.
I was ordained alongside gay candidates of the priesthood and many of my clergy friends are gay, though I am not.’
The Anglican Church needs to follow the Pope’s lead and order a stop to the ordination of Gay clergy.
The Bishops need to be unambiguous in their direction and absolutely ban the blessing of Gay unions in the Church.