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
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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The Campaign sent our statement welcoming the Methodist Church’s historic vote to allow equal marriage to The Tablet, the Catholic weekly newspaper, in the hope that it might be of interest. We are very pleased that they have published a news item, ‘Methodists consent to same-sex marriage’, closely based on our statement and prominently quoting …
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The Methodist Conference voted yesterday, 30 June 2021, by an overwhelming majority, to allow the marriage of same-sex couples in Methodist churches and by Methodist ministers. This is the last stage of a long process of exploration and discussion in the Methodist Church of Great Britain. The resulting report on marriage and relationships, ‘God in …
The Methodist Church has withdrawn from a conference being held later this month after an invitation to one of its lay workers to give the closing keynote address was withdrawn when the organizers discovered that she was a married lesbian.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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