In case you missed it, the Government yesterday accepted an amendment that protects clergy from being sued for discrimination for refusing to marry a couple if they believe one of the spouses has had a gender transition. The text of the debate on these amendments is here, but this is the key section from the [...]
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The new Bishop of Bangor is the current Archdeacon of Cardigan.
After two-and-a-half days locked in a cathedral, members of the Church in Wales have named their choice for the next Bishop of Bangor.
The Archdeacon of Cardigan the Venerable Andrew John, 44, is the ecumenical officer for the St Davids diocese in west Wales.
The 46-member electoral [...]
Wales Online is reporting the threat to resign of at least one senior clergyman in Bangor Diocese if Dr John becomes Bishop:
A SENIOR clergyman has threatened to quit rather than work alongside the man who could become the UK’s first openly gay bishop because he says homosexual acts are “sinful and wrong”.
Canon Peter Jones said [...]
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It will probably prompt a flurry of claims about my misogyny, but I am delighted that the Welsh Synod failed to pass a vote on allowing Women Bishops. The vote in favour in the House of Clergy was only 58.7%, short of the two-thirds required for the motion to pass.
I am in agreement with Ft [...]
