Another row has broken out in the Anglican Church over the blessing of a civil partnership in an Anglican Church. The Reverend Peter Cowell and the Reverend Dr David Lord had their civil partnership blessed in a ceremony performed by the Reverend Dr Martin Dudley at St Bartholomew the Great Church in the City of London.
Conservative critics have claimed the blessing which had many of the trappings of a traditional wedding service broke church guidelines, which state that gay priests can enter civil partnerships as long as they remain celibate and gay couples who ask a blessing must be treated “pastorally and sensitively”.
An investigation, ordered by the Bishop of London, is now under way.
I must confess to almost rolling around with glee when I read stories like this. The church’s continued prejudice against homosexuality is a wonderful advert for Atheism and Secularism. Once again it seems like homophobia will dominate the Church of England’s General Synod which is to take place in July.
Rowan Williams will no doubt continue to try and avoid the issue and try to prevent it dominating the agenda. He fears that a full and frank discussion of the church’s position on homosexuality will cause a schism and the Anglican Communion will split in two. However, what he fails to realise is that until liberal and conservative Anglican’s split, the church will be viewed as dogmatic and bigoted by virtue of homophobic hatred being spouted from the conservative wings. The church will continue to lose membership, congregations will continue to dwindle and we shall see the demise of the Anglican Church.
Oh well… I’m not complaining.
There is no “homophobia”. That’s a word invented with the purpose of shutting down any rational discourse of the health problems of the homosexual activity.
Mats
That’s complete bollox. There are no significant health problems caused by homosexual activity that could not apply equally to heterosexual activity.
Straight people do Oral. Straight people have anal sex. Straight people have unsafe sex.
Some STD’s have strains affect women in more serious ways than men, and vice versa. Yet can be carried and transmitted by either gender.
Your point is ridiculous