The Archbishops of Canterbury and
York yesterday published the Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on
Human Sexuality.
And according to it, gay couples
should be allowed to have their relationships blessed in church.
DailyMail reports that the report,
written by former civil servant Sir Joseph Pilling and a team of senior
churchmen and women, was published seven months after the Church first
indicated it is looking at ‘accommodations’ for same-sex couples and four
months after the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, told
Church leaders that ‘we must accept there is a revolution in the area of
sexuality.’
It signals an end to the Church’s
longstanding insistence that gay relationships are sinful and less worthy than
heterosexual marriage.
And may now open the way for a
reversal of the CofE’s opposition to same-sex marriage and the eventual
appointment of actively homosexual priests and bishops.
Archbishop Welby said yesterday that bishops will now ‘consider the report and decide how such a process might best be shaped.’
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