This weekend at our church we were all invited after the service to tea and coffee in the hall to congratulate a gay couple in the congregation who had had a civil union and got "married". Now although the Anglican church officially does not accept same sex marriage, our priest made an announcement in the church and then afterwards in the hall congratulated them on behalf of everybody. We had a gay Dean and our Canon Presenter is also gay. The CP refuses to preside over heterosexual marriages in our church until the church recognises and allows gay marriages. It seems like everybody in our Cathedral (clergy) are keen on allowing same sex marriages, and think the the churches viewpoint is ridiculous. Even Desmond Tutu has expressed the churches division over this as "a ridiculous obsession with sex". So my question is why do they not defy some person in England and just do it. In the apartheid era, the Cathedral had absolutely no problem with constantly defying the norm and challenging the establishment. How come now they are so scared to act?
24/2/20
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