Times poll reveals widespread support for altering the current Anglican doctrine.
The Church of England clergy want to see priests allowed to marry gay couples, gay priests to wed, and see the Anglican teachings against homosexuality changed at an upcoming General Synod, according to a survey by The Times. The majority of almost 1,200 respondents would also welcome a female leader and believe Britain is no longer a Christian country.
The survey, published on Tuesday, is the first of its kind since 2014, when the UK legalized same-sex civil unions. At the time, 51% of Anglican clergy said same-sex marriage was “wrong” while 39% supported it.
Less than a decade later, 59% would bless same-sex couples, while 32% would not, and 63% think the Church of England should allow homosexual clergy to enter same-sex civil unions. According to The Times, 53.4% of the priests favor changing the law to allow them to marry gay couples, while 36.5% are against it. However, only 49.2% would be willing to officiate at same-sex weddings, while 41% would not.
EXCLUSIVE:
The Times has surveyed 1,200 Church of England priests
Hears views of front-line clergy in unprecedented detail
– Majority back same-sex marriage + want church to accept premarital and gay sex for first time
Plus four other major findings:https://t.co/5yhFW5DRNr
— Kaya Burgess (@kayaburgess) August 29, 2023
Almost two thirds of the clergy surveyed support changing the current Anglican doctrine that “homosexual practice is incompatible with scripture,” while only 29.7% favor keeping it. The church is nominally opposed to any sex outside of marriage, but 37.2% of respondents would accept it in “committed” same-sex relationships and 27.3% want to see the opposition dropped outright.
The Times extrapolated the results to mean that “more than 10,600 of the church’s 20,000 priests” would back same-sex marriage within the church. However, the survey was based on the responses of 1,185 serving clergy, after The Times reached out to 5,000 priests with addresses in England, randomly selected from the Crockford’s Clerical Directory of Anglican clergy.
The survey sample amounted to 6% of active clergy, defined as vicars, rectors, curates, chaplains, and retired priests who can still celebrate sacraments such as Holy Communion.
In addition to the sea change on the LGBTQ issue, the survey also showed 80% of the clergy in favor of having a female Archbishop of Canterbury. Likewise, 64.2% said Britain could be described as a Christian country “only historically, not currently,” 9.2% said no outright, and only 24.2% said yes.
“This is absolutely huge,” the Reverend Andrew Foreshew-Cain, who runs the Campaign for Equal Marriage in the Church, told The Times. The survey showed “really clear evidence of the direction of change the church needs to pursue,” said Foreshew-Cain, who married his partner in defiance of church rules.
“The church is the church, and, as such, not a club. It has a distinct vocation that does not include seeking popularity,” said the Bishop of Leeds, the Right Reverend Nick Baines, speaking on behalf of the C of E. “Repentance means being open to changing our mind in order that society should encounter both love and justice. And this means sometimes going against the flow of popular culture, however uncomfortable that might be.”
The Church of England is a Protestant denomination created in 1534, when King Henry VIII rejected the authority of the Roman Catholic Pope in a divorce dispute. Its titular head is the British monarch, while the Archbishop of Canterbury acts as its primate.
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yuk !!!
The Church of England / Anglican Church & Diocese have no standing…!
The CoE was formed-up by adulterer King Henry Vlll, in order to get out of ‘non-productive marriages’ using divorce which was not granted by the Holy Roman Mother Cat-holic Church.
He then pulled all of England out of the Roman Catholic sphere of influence, murdered the wives who could not produce a son on trumped-up charges, and went on to be a total failure as a gluttonous psychopathic and paranoid King!
When our family contacted the Anglican Diocese in Welly and asked for the christening of our autistic child, Victoria never contacted us back, even after numerous inquiries.
Then, other ‘Anglican Church’ members went about the town where we lived at the time spreading malicious gossip, rumour-mongering and interference to the point that government agencies got involved as they attempted to remove our child. Once we got a lawyer and moved to another island, they tried to continue the problems post-move, but those contacted realised that they would be sued into oblivion, and never continued the plans of those with malicious intent!
Darwinism, homosexuality, abortion, horrific competitiveness on all levels, Luciferian Freemasonry, outright Satanism and radical feminism are discrediting ALL of the so-called ‘churches’ since they elect to tolerate that crap in order to keep their tax-exempt status, and have to preach ‘politically-correct’ sermons and cannot speak out about the above lest they be fined, lose tax exemption status, or suffer lawsuits.
To deny an autistic child the legal, and spiritual right to a christening was disgusting!
This shows that the ‘church’ has no power or direction of helping the sick, poor and disabled, but are surely intent on pursuing the ‘status quo’ and ‘social ladder’ in all aspects of mortal life.
And- the CoE / Anglican Church will NEVER address the End Times in the Books of Daniel, Revelation and Enoch.
This is why in the U.S. there is a separation of Church and State…
And…the J*****-owned and controlled ‘City of London’ is actually a separate state apart from the UK, as the Kings / Queens of England (who normally lead all public processions) must follow behind the ‘Lord Mayor’ of that district.
Check and see how many former ‘Lord Mayors of the City of London’ became British Prime Ministers, Ex-Chequers, and Cabinet Ministers.
Rest assured that the Freemasons are ever-present, and they too are overseen by their J***** members for the purpose of keeping the ‘profane and unenlightened’ in check at all levels!
They are the tares amongst the wheat
Go woke, go broke.
Will also pertain to the church of england.
I want SPARTA back!
Spirituality has nothing to do with religion.
I found much more spirituality in the books of Carlos Castaneda and ” the teachings of don juan”. I read them all not only with pleasure, but also with wonder. And pagan cultures might have more sprituality than christianity.
Religion is about ” rites” or ” rituals” to control masses and the most of all the women. Giving ” lectures” how to behave. But everybody knows the right from the wrong: we don t need churches therefore. And LGBT movement is wrong and against natural and spiritual aspirations of humanity in general
Religious pomp has always been associated with royal houses. Pomp to impress the masses.
And of course amassing monnies.