A Labour peer has launched a fierce attack on a group of bishops in a growing row over whether homosexual "marriages" should be permitted in church.
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Telegraph on 6th Mar 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Senior Anglican bishops have backed calls to relax the ban on homosexual couples marrying in church in a move likely to deepen divisions in the Church of England.
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Telegraph on 23rd Feb 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
Cross-party peers cite free speech defence to block changes to bill Church of England bishops are on a collision course with the government over its plans to amend the incitement to hatred laws, claiming they will stifle what they believe is legitimate criticism of homosexual lifestyles. In what is being portrayed in some parliamentary quarters as a battle for free speech, a coalition of Anglican ...
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Guardian on 24th May 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
Over the past few days, many commentators have been stating Church of England bishops should not get involved in politics. Some have been more specific and have stated bishops should not get involved in party politics. Why? What is wrong with church leaders speaking their mind? When you become a bishop, do you leave your political views behind? Are you not entitled to speak out on issues you feel ...
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AndrewAllison on 30th Dec 2008 (via andrew-allison.blogspot.com)
Am happy about this, esp as I am one of those who regard women in ministry as "Biblical". After all, depending on how you define the priesthood or what constitutes a church, who was it who first proclaimed the Risen Lord to the Church? In any case, as I mentioned before in-depth, I think that if one is for women priests, or even tolerates their presence, then why object to women Bishops! And if yo...
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MarsHill on 15th Jul 2008 (via paulburgin.blogspot.com)
The embattled Archbishop of Canterbury has suffered a devastating blow to his hopes of averting a split in the Church of England over the introduction of women bishops.
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Telegraph on 10th Jul 2010 (via telegraph.co.uk)
From OneNewsNow The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has joined seven other dioceses in passing a resolution asking the church to let lesbians as well as homosexual men become bishops. The vote at the diocesan convention rejected the Episcopal Church's de facto moratorium on electing homosexual bishops since its 2003 consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who lives with his sa...
The US Catholic bishops have offered their "prayerful support and steadfast solidarity" to the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-day Saints in the face of attacks on the church and its members for working to pass California's Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage. The support was offered in a November 21 letter from Archbishop Joseph E. Kurtz, chairman of the bishops' Ad Hoc Com...
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The Church of England's ruling General Synod has voted to consecrate women as bishops and approved a code of practice aimed at reassuring opponents. Following women priests in 1994, this is quite logical.Conservative MP and Synod member Robert Key, who supported the reforms, said afterwards it was time for the Church to move beyond 'navel-gazing'. He added: 'It is a good day for the Church of Engl...
The sight of 600 bishops marching though Westminster last Thursday was, at face value, a welcome move. Rather than obsessing about the ordination of women and homosexuals, the Church was concerning itself with poverty, surely a welcome development.Bishops fail to see the wider picture of global povertyWhat a pity, therefore, that these bishops seemed completely confused about the causes of global ...
