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 Michael Sadgrove The Very Revd Michael Sadgrove, who before his retirement was Dean of Durham, has long supported equal marriage in the Church. We are very grateful to him for writing this excellent article for the Equal Campaign, demonstrating that our case is ‘built on a solid theological and ethical foundation’. What is the …
The Methodist Church has withdrawn from a conference being held later this month after an invitation to one of its lay workers to give the closing keynote address was withdrawn when the organizers discovered that she was a married lesbian.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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On 27 July 2017 Michael Sadgrove, who before he retired in 2015 was the Dean of Durham, wrote a blog post to commemorate the 50th anniversary (to the day) of the 1967 Act of Parliament that decriminalized homosexual activity between consenting male adults in private. You can read the full post here. What follows is …
Dr Meg Warner is an Old Testament theologian and a member of General Synod. She recently wrote a piece for ViaMedia responding to the publication of a new book by the Church of England Evangelical Council (Glorify God in Your Body) which argued that the only acceptable form of marriage was the fertile sort between …
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