Gender transition services and same-sex weddings call for Church of England
By John Bingham, Telegraph:
The Church of England should issue new service books with liturgies for same-sex weddings and “transition” celebrations for people changing gender as part of sweeping reforms to end a culture of “official discrimination” against non-heterosexuals, a bishop and leading clerics say.
A new Anglican campaign group is also pressing for an end to the ban on clergy entering same-sex marriages, the Church’s blanket opt-out from the gay marriage legislation and local policies preventing non-heterosexual clergy from promotion.
The group, whose leaders include the Bishop of Buckingham, the Rt Rev Alan Wilson, has pledged to publish same-sex wedding and gender transition liturgies for parish priests to use – potentially in defiance of bishops’ orders – and to lobby Parliament to end to the Church’s special exemptions from equal rights laws.
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