Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has called for higher taxes to fund social care, telling BethRigby it should be 'fair and to meet the values we want as a society'. Read more: 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube
Church 'deeply divided' over same-sex marriage
The archbishop also admitted that it is"not comfortable" that in his current role, he is not able to bless same-sex marriages.However, under the proposals, same-sex couples still would still not be able to marry in the church and blessings for civil gay marriages would be on a voluntary basis for clergy.
Read more: Church of England says no to gay marriage but Archbishop of Canterbury welcomes blessings for same-sex couples in historic first He continued:"First, we have made a huge step which is to say that if someone is married in a civil marriage, equal marriage, to someone of their own gender - same sex marriage - that they can come to church, can have that marriage recognised and thanked for and dedicate themselves to God and seek God's blessing in their lives."And it is controversial. I am getting an equal amount of flack from the other side about having compromised traditional Christian standards.
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