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Continue reading about Gay BCP Wedding - No Action to be Taken
Remember the Rev Martin Dudley and his BCP gay wedding? Now a group of clergy and layity on the Deanery Synod have issued a statement suggesting that the Rev Dudley’s actions have stretched the bounds of fellowship and mutual accountability that should exist amongst neighbouring clergy and chuches.
On 31 May 2008 at The Priory Church of St [...]
Continue reading about London Gay Wedding - Things hot up in the Deanery
In my previous two posts I have examined the liturgy of the London Gay Union, showing that it is to all intents and purposes a mirror of the BCP Marriage Service, and looked at the theology of the liturgy and how it affects the doctrine of marriage of the Church of England. I now want [...]
In my previous post I laid out the liturgy used in the gay wedding of two Church of England priests and compared it to the actual text of the BCP marriage service. In doing so I demonstrated that the argument that the service was not intended to mimic the BCP marriage service and therefore to [...]
This is the first of a series of post looking at the news this morning that a London Anglican Clergyman "married" two other male priests in a ceremony that mimicked marriage.
This post looks at the liturgy used in that service and compares it to a BCP marriage service to show that the explanation that this [...]
