The Campaign For Equal Marriage in the Church of England
working to allow all couples to marry in church, regardless of their sex or sexuality
by Charlie Bell The Revd Dr Charlie Bell is a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and curate at St John the Divine, Kennington. In this article, first published in ViaMedia.news, he declares “There is no such thing as ‘neutral’ when it comes to our treatment of other people.” In the current period while the C …
The Equal Campaign issued the following press release today (1 February 2022). Press release: re Archbishops’ statement for LGBT+ History Month 2022 February is LGBT+ History Month, and today the Archbishops of Canterbury and York have marked its beginning by tweeting a statement of support and acceptance of LGBT+ people []. The archbishops have issued such …
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The Guardian‘s editorial yesterday (12 January 2022) came out strongly in favour of same-sex weddings in the Church of England, with the headline: The Church of England should follow the example of Anglicans in Wales and Scotland, and give its blessing to gay and lesbian relationships. The article is hopeful that real change is now …
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by Charlie Bell The Revd Dr Charlie Bell is a Fellow at Girton College, Cambridge and curate at St John the Divine, Kennington. In this article, first published in ViaMedia.news, he offers some hard-hitting criticism of the Archbishop of Canterbury’s public responses to the Ghanaian bishops’ support for the appalling ‘anti-LGBTQI’ bill – in which …
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On Sunday 14 November 2021 the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England issued the following statement, which is also available as a PDF document. On Friday 12 November the Archbishop of Canterbury issued a statement to say that nine days earlier he had had an online meeting with the Archbishop of Ghana …
From the Episcopal News Website: The American Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops said March 15 that it is “aggrieved and distressed” by Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby’s decision to exclude the same-sex spouses of bishops invited to the 2020 Lambeth Conference. Full article here. The bishops of the American Episcopal Church have reacted strongly …
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Posted without comment. This is genuine and from the Lambeth Conference Website as of 25th Feb 2019
The Methodist Church has withdrawn from a conference being held later this month after an invitation to one of its lay workers to give the closing keynote address was withdrawn when the organizers discovered that she was a married lesbian. The Joined Up Conference is an annual conference for youth and children’s workers, school chaplains and …
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Every decade or so the bishops of the Anglican Communion’s constituent Churches are invited by the Archbishop of Canterbury to gather for fellowship, prayer and discussion on the issues affecting the life of the Churches of the Communion for the Lambeth Conference. The next meeting is to be held in 2020 [postponed to 2022] and …
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