The LGBT Group at St Mary’s met on 18 February to prepare its response to the current Scottish Government consultation on the bill that it is proposing to bring in on allowing changes to marriage law in Scotland including allowing same-sex couples to be able to be marriage.
In case anyone is interested, here is the response that the group made:
St Mary’s LGBT group response to government consultation
Bravo, bravo, Kelvin!. I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve read the text of the Anglican Covenant, and, with each rereading, I like it less. Bishop Matthews does indeed insult all of us who have spent time pouring over the odious document and found it wanting. It is just not Anglican. God bless the Scottish Episcopal Church for its brave stand and firm “No”. I was crushed when the Episcopal Church in the US did not stand with the SEC and vote a resounding “No” at its General Convention.
Our convention “declined to take a position†on the covenant, but the result has been mischaracterized by the reports out of the ACC meeting as having made a “partial decision”. I can say with full confidence that TEC will never, ever adopt the covenant. I’m just sorry that we did not have the backbone to state that truth firmly by vote at GC.
Bp Matthews needs to be shown this:
http://www.archideaconalwhitterings.blogspot.in/2011/10/anglican-covenant-and-experience-of.html
Obviously she does not have any clear understanding of the Anglican Communion.
Time for my annual Blog Break. I’ll not be blogging for July, but will be back at the start of August.
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Well, the Church Times did not publish the letter that I sent them this week. However I can forgive them much in exchange for the following: 1 – publishing a correction to last week’s erroneous claim that the Scottish Episcopal Church had accepted the Windsor Report at the General Synod 2 – the headline: “Methodists…
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