“Perhaps loss is the price we pay for being human, for being beautifully fragile. In order for us to be human, things must change, things will and must get lost; we have to lose them in order to have new life and new possibilities.” “In Jesus Christ, God embraces a human life and shows us [...]
Latest news on the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill
, May 10th, 2013 3 Comments
The Bill has been carried over to the 2013-14 session. The Bill is due to have its report stage and third reading on 20 and 21 May 2013. The Government Bill was presented to Parliament on 24 January 2013. It completed its committee stage on 12 March 2013 and had its second reading debate on [...]
Province of West Indies bishops reject same-sex marriage
, April 30th, 2013 Be
The House of Bishops and Standing Committee of the Church in the Province of the West Indies meeting in Barbados issued a draft provincial statement on same-sex unions issued on Thursday 25 April 2013 firmly rejecting same-sex marriage and urging Caribbean Governments to resist attempts at compromise from outside the region. The statement said that [...]
Survey suggests church leaders at odds with opinion in the pews about equal marriage
, April 18th, 2013 7 Comments
The Telegraph reports the findings of a YouGov survey of more than 4,000 people, commissioned by the organisers of the Westminster Faith Debates. It finds that the faithful are just as likely to support same-sex marriage quietly as oppose it, despite vocal opposition from the leaders of almost all the major faith groups. When those [...]
Reactions to “Men and Women in Marriage”
, April 11th, 2013 6 Comments
There has been strong, hostile reaction to the Men and Women in Marriage report. For many it is the last straw. Gay and staright, lay and ordained, the number of people who have been hanging on to active involvement with their local Christian community but have been provoked by the report into abandoning their church [...]
Archbishop of Canterbury offers to meet Peter Tatchell
, March 21st, 2013 6 Comments
The Times reports today that Archbishop Justin Welby has responded to Peter Tatchell’s open letter published yesterday and has offered to meet him. Archbishop Welby sent an email in which he thanked him for his “very thoughful” letter, saying he would like to discuss it “without the mediation of the press” and offering to discuss [...]
Archbishop of Canterbury claims to support strengthening gay relationships but not equal marriage
, March 13th, 2013 5 Comments
Justin Welby, Archbishop of Canterbury, was interviewed on LBC 97.3 by Iain Dale who who is in a civil partnership and supports same-sex marriage. Ian asked the Archbishop: “You said once that you’re always averse to the language of exclusion and what we’re called to do is love in the same way as Jesus Christ [...]
Changing Attitude’s submission to the House of Commons Committee Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill
, March 8th, 2013 Be
Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill Submission to House of Commons Public Bill Committee – 26 February 2013 Summary Changing Attitude England represents lesbian and gay Anglicans who wish to be married in church according to the rites of the Church of England, including families, friends and colleagues and congregations wishing to contract same-sex marriages. Changing [...]
Not in our names
, February 27th, 2013 4 Comments
Joanna Moorhead, deputy editor of the Catholic Herald from 1988-1992 writes in today’s Guardian. The online version is headlined “The crimes of the Catholic church: not in our names.” In the course of the article she says: The last thing anyone would ask a bishop or cardinal about right now is prayer, or Christian witness, [...]
What does the Christian alternative to same-sex marriage look like?
, February 20th, 2013 4 Comments
I travelled to Bath yesterday evening for a public debate on the Same Sex Marriage Bill organised by Don Foster, MP for Bath – who voted for the Bill in its second reading. The evening was chaired by Lynne Fernquest, Editor of the Bath Chronicle. Rev Kieren Bourne of the Living Springs Metropolitan Community Church [...]
