Are we to believe that up until the 1950s -- for nearly 2000 years --- the Christian Church was perfectly fine with homosexuals, and homosexual marriage, and then WHAM! in the 1950s, right around the time of Eisenhower and Harold MacMillan, people perked up and said, "I disapprove of homosexuality". And this idea kind of caught on and ushered in a sudden new age of anti-homosexuality?
Is this what he's suggesting?
But but but I thought gay Catholic priests was only a thing because we didn’t have a married clergy!
I don’t usually comment on “Religion” threads, but an article like this is consistent with an article posted earlier today about the feminization of the Church.
There’s no denying that certain Churches are very PC, and very gay-friendly (look at the reports of priest/young men interaction).
Evil has always sought to infiltrate the house of God.
This bishop sounds like satan himself
Sometimes kooks get into the best churches and....stay there a long time. A Catholic bishop in England just quit....due to his sinfulness....how can he do that? He chooses to continue his sin rather than submit his weak state to Christ and cease the sin. He’s choosing hell over God VOLUNTARILY.
The priesthood is a calling...some I suppose hear other voices, perhaps their own, and what is the ordaining bishop to know for sure? We must carry on. Another one bites the dust, yet there by the grace of God go I.
Seriously, the organizations should be officially called, “The Former Church of England”, or FCofE.
A future conservative Prime Minister should privatize the whole lot, turning the management of the FCofE over to the African Anglican communion, while giving the sack to the current leadership, archbishops, bishops, priests and lay ministers (all intentionally not capitalized).
And nine out of ten Anglican Brits could probably tell you which ones.
AFEOCNPTDO
The Anglican Bishops aren’t following the Bible are they?
Ha, I’m willing to bet the Vatican II Church has got that beat.
‘In comments bound to infuriate traditionalists he rejects outright the idea that the Bible forbids gay marriage insisting that the Church’s official teaching is largely based on “our grandparents’ cultural dictates” rather than the teaching of Jesus.’
And all this time I thought it was because of what Jesus said in Matthew 19:4-6
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Matthew+19%3A4-6&version=GNV
“4 And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read, that he which made them at the beginning, made them male and female,
5 And said, For this cause, shall a man leave father and mother, and [a]cleave unto his wife, and they which were [b]two, shall be one flesh?
6 Wherefore they are no more twain, but one flesh. Let not man therefore put asunder that, which God hath [c]coupled together.”
Also, my grandparents lived long after the time period that Jesus said those words as did their grandparents before them.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! A LOT more than that!
Everyone in England is secretly gay.