Sexual immorality is a first order salvation issue. It is time for The Church of England to go under the surgeon’s knife
by Peter Saunders, Christian Medical Comment:
On Wednesday 15 February the Church of England General Synod will decide whether or not to “take note” of the House of Bishops’ report on marriage and same-sex relationships.
Within the Church, it is now very clear that the two main positions held are irreconcilable.
On the one hand are the “conservatives”, represented by the Evangelicals and Anglo-Catholics, who hold to the biblical and traditional position of monogamous heterosexual marriage.
On the other are the “progressives”, represented by “One Body One Faith” (previously the Lesbian and Gay Christian movement), who are seeking “a significant level of LGBTI+ representation” on church boards and councils, an “approved liturgy for the blessing of same-sex couples after a Civil Partnership or Civil Marriage” and “a change to Canon C26 to make clerical civil marriage not a matter for discipline”.
They add that these demands are “very far” from “all we want to see” but they represent “a way forward, a start”.
In between, is a body of currently indeterminate size, who are seeking to live with some kind of “arrangement” in a desperate attempt to keep those holding two radically different ideologies together.
Read also: When it comes to the boundary of tolerance you have to choose by James Oakley
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