Church of England must make progress on LGBT+ rights
by Jeremy Pemberton, Thomas Reuters Foundation:
This has been a strange few weeks in which to be LGBT+ and a member of the Church of England. The bishops of the church have commissioned a process called “Living in Love and Faith”. This will, according to its website, produce “resources that will help bishops” lead others in thinking about “what it means to be holy in a society in which understandings and practices of gender, sexuality and marriage continue to change”.
It is a slow process involving many experts and a report is expected in time for the global Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops next year.
In a meeting last month of the General Synod, which governs the Church of England, the project called for people to work against prejudice, silence, ignorance, fear, lying and the use of power against LGBT+ people in churches.
All fine words. But what is the reality?
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