LGBT Campaigners Plot Shock Defeat Of Church’s Gay Marriage Stance
by Harry Farley, Christian Today:
LGBT campaigners are plotting an unprecedented defeat of the Church of England’s resistance to change teaching that marriage is exclusively between one man and one woman.
Top bishops have refused to alter their views in a report that will be put before the Church’s parliament, general synod, next week in a “take note” debate.
But lobbyists on the Church’s liberal wing are hoping to pull off an extraordinary overthrowal and persuade synod not to take note of the report.
Campaigners are writing hundreds of letters to members of synod, the Church equivalent of MPs, across the UK to try and persuade them to reject the report.
The Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement (LGCM) has issued an “urgent call” on people inside and outside the CofE to write, saying the report marks “a very significant betrayal of trust”.
A statement from LGCM announcing the campaign said they were “concerned that the established church, in which the country as a whole has a stake, is proposing to retain unchanged a theology and pastoral practice and discipline that is significantly out of kilter with the nation’s understanding of equality and justice in matters of sexuality and gender.”
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