General Synod – The Campaign For Equal Marriage in the Church of England

21 February 201913 June 2019

Methodist Church withdraws from conference over ban on married lesbian

The Methodist Church has withdrawn from a conference being held later this month after an invitation to one of its lay workers to give the closing keynote address was withdrawn when the organizers discovered that she was a married lesbian.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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16 February 201918 February 2019

Now is the time for change

On 27 July 2017 Michael Sadgrove, who before he retired in 2015 was the Dean of Durham, wrote a blog post to commemorate the 50th anniversary (to the day) of the 1967 Act of Parliament that decriminalized homosexual activity between consenting male adults in private. You can read the full post here. What follows is …

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14 February 201914 March 2019

Dr Meg Warner responds to the Church of England Evangelical Council’s book

Dr Meg Warner is an Old Testament theologian and a member of General Synod. She recently wrote a piece for ViaMedia responding to the publication of a new book by the Church of England Evangelical Council (Glorify God in Your Body) which argued that the only acceptable form of marriage was the fertile sort between …

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