equality – The Campaign For Equal Marriage in the Church of England

5 April 202123 October 2021

Repeating Workshop:
An Inclusive Introduction to Living in Love and Faith

A workshop to explore the content of the LLF resources from an inclusive perspective NB As there is now less demand for the workshops we have decided not to offer any more for the time being. If you would like to come to a workshop if we decide to restart them, please let us know by …

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An Inclusive Introduction to Living in Love and Faith”

22 November 201922 July 2021

Thank God for equal marriage – a talk by Jeffrey John

Jeffrey John to speak on marriage equality at St George’s Westcombe Park Jeffrey John, the Dean of St Albans [update: until 2021] and a hero to the movement for equality in the Church of England, is speaking on marriage equality as part of a lecture series held at St George’s, Westcombe Park. The talk is …

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13 June 201922 July 2021

Ecuador legalizes same-sex marriage

Gay Times has reported on the latest country to legalize same-sex marriage. Ecuador’s highest court has ruled in favour of same-sex marriage. On Wednesday 12 June, the Constitutional Court in capital city Quito voted five-to-four to introduce marriage equality for LGBTQ people in the small South American nation, following in the footsteps of countries like …

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12 June 201922 July 2021

Botswana decriminalizes homosexuality.

Around the world there are many places where to be gay is illegal, but the number has just reduced by one (there are still 71 places where being gay is criminalised). Botswana’s High Court has just struck down colonial era legislation ( 10th June 2019). This victory for justice and equality marks another small victory …

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22 May 20193 July 2019

The lesson of equal love

by Rosemary Hannah Following a first degree in theology and biblical languages from the University of St Andrews, Rosemary Hannah’s doctorate at the University of Durham was on the Victorian Third Marquess of Bute, the subject of her later published biography. For many years she was Church History Co-ordinator at the Theological Institute of the …

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8 May 201922 July 2021

The Rebel Priest ‘Gay people in the Church are not going to go away’

Fr Andrew was interviewed by the Guardian recently about his new post at Lady Margaret Hall in Oxford, the work of the Campaign and the challenges to the Church of England in its current attitudes to gay people and our relationships. You can read the article here and the full text of the article is …

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3 May 201911 April 2021

Tears in God’s Wineskin: a theology of hospitality

by Elaine Ambrose Elaine Ambrose is a member of the Church of England in London; she has studied at The London Bible College and Heythrop College, and her PhD studies were at King’s College London. She writes on the challenge to Christian theology of the marriages of same-sex couples. Her website can be found here …

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1 May 201926 July 2021

What Would Jesus Do?

by Lorraine Cavanagh The Revd Dr Lorraine Cavanagh is an Anglican priest in the Church in Wales. She has published a number of books, among them Making Sense of God’s Love: Atonement and Redemption which was one of the first in the Modern Church Series ‘Making Sense of Christianity’ (SPCK). Dr Cavanagh has written the first of a …

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13 April 201922 July 2021

Equal – The Campaign for Equal Marriage in the CofE launches

We have officially launched our Campaign with an advert in the Church Times on the fifth anniversary of the wedding of Canon Jeremy Pemberton and Laurence Cunnington. Our aim is simple – to see the Church of England welcome gay and lesbian couples to celebrate their marriages in Church of England Churches, nothing more, and …

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About the Campaign

The Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church of England was formally launched in April 2019 to campaign for changes in the Church to remove the current discrimination against married same-sex couples in the Church and to enable same-sex couples to be married in their parish church – in other words, for all married or …

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