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0 pointsDoctor_Fegg10y ago0 comments

I don't know: I'm not aware we've ever been asked. My guess is that our church would if we were allowed to, but that the diocese and Lambeth Palace would overrule it.

I do know that [family member], who is gay and married, has said that she feels welcomed in our church and that she wishes she'd had one like it to support her when she came out.

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TomGullen10y ago

One of my good friends is a CoE Vicar, but I do really struggle with the fact the organisation in some aspects is really backwards.

It's one of the only institutions I can think of that seems to be allowed to openly discriminate against homosexuals and until more recently women in some regards as well.

I hope you didn't take my comment as me jumping on you, I'm just curious because I don't think I could call any church in the CoE liberal when the leadership are so conservative.

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TomGullen10y ago

One of my good friends is a CoE Vicar, but I do really struggle with the fact the organisation in some aspects is really backwards.

It's one of the only institutions I can think of that seems to be allowed to openly discriminate against homosexuals and until more recently women in some regards as well.

I hope you didn't take my comment as me jumping on you, I'm just curious because I don't think I could call any church in the CoE liberal when the leadership are so conservative.

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