Church of Scotland to decide on gay marriage in church

May 25, 2017 by

by Harry Farley, Christian Today:

The Church of Scotland will decide on whether to allow minister to carry out gay weddings later today.

A proposal going before the Kirk’s general assembly calls for an apology for past discrimination of LGBT people and recommends individual churches have the freedom to decide whether to marry same-sex couples.

The recommendation, made by the Church’s Theological Forum, insists there must be protections for ‘conscientious refusal’ from conservative clergy but evangelicals fear the move could lead to all ministers being forced to take gay weddings, even if it is against their beliefs.

‘We recognise that as a Church we have often failed to recognise and protect the identity and Christian vocation of gay people and believe that the Church as a whole should acknowledge its faults,’ said former Church moderator Professor Iain Torrance, convenor of the Theological Forum.

‘In years past there has been an idea that in time one side in this argument would emerge as the sole victor.

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