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
On 20 January the Church of England published their proposals to allow the church blessing of same-sex couples, together with draft liturgies for such services. Alas, same-sex marriage is not included. These documents will be considered by General Synod in February. They can be downloaded by clicking the links below: Living in Love and Faith: …
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New Campaign Action to inform the House of Bishops why we believe the Church must marry same-sex couples The Living in Love and Faith consultation is finishing on 30 April 2022. We have just under six weeks to call for change. Most of the ‘Next Steps’ group of bishops want some kind of change, but …
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This is the text of the Open Letter to the House of Bishops that we published on our website in 2019. The Church of England currently finds itself in an untenable position because of its grudging and sometimes hostile attitude towards LGBTI people and especially its unjust treatment of loving, committed same-gender couples. This is …
The Methodist Church has withdrawn from a conference being held later this month after an invitation to one of its lay workers to give the closing keynote address was withdrawn when the organizers discovered that she was a married lesbian.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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