Synod members invited to apply to join LLF working groups
by Tim Wyatt, Church Times:
MEMBERS of the General Synod have been invited to apply to join three working groups to draw up proposals for the remaining elements of the Living in Love and Faith project (LLF).
The LLF lead bishop, the Bishop of Leicester, the Rt Revd Martyn Snow, has written to Synod members about the next steps after last month’s debate.
Although the Synod moved to next business, and so decided not to vote on Bishop Snow’s motion, he sensed, he said, that there was a way forward to resolve the deadlock over the Prayers of Love and Faith (PLF).
Three new working groups were being formed to decide how to proceed on the three remaining open questions. The first would draft the new pastoral guidance on whether gay clergy will be permitted to enter into civil same-sex marriages.
The second would draft a settlement for conservatives unable to accept the PLF, amounting, Bishop Snow wrote, to “the minimum structural provision that is both necessary and proportionate”. And the third group would agree how the stand-alone services of blessing for same-sex couples could be authorised or approved.
Each group of Synod members would be chaired by a bishop, as yet unnamed.
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