Church Of England To Bless Gay Couples

The Archbishops of Canterbury and
York yesterday published the Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on
Human S*xuality.

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-s*x 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
s*xuality.’

It signals an end to the Church’s
longstanding insistence that gay relationships are sinful and less worthy than
heteros*xual marriage.

And may now open the way for a
reversal of the CofE’s opposition to same-s*x marriage and the eventual
appointment of actively homos*xual priests and bishops.

Archbishop Welby said yesterday that
bishops will now ‘consider the report and decide how such a process might best
be shaped.’