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.
If Archbishop of Canterbury can single out one verse in the holy book that promotes, enables, supports and blesses same sex marriage we would gladly associate with this arrangement as is commanded. Otherwise doomsday unto him.
How to please everyone, eh?
Brood of vipers
There is no god. If there was then churches wouldn't change religion so much it went against scripture. We write our own commandments and ignore god bc it doesn't matter... the aren't any. It's a nice thought. But there's no sequel.
By allowing Charles to become head of Church there is nothing to discuss here!
Palestinians are very nice to gays, not like homophobic Christians.
I’m not religious but I never understand why in this country and other Christian’s and catholics always tend to be pressured around allowing gay marriage in their religion yet I’ve never heard the same stuff about Muslims, Jews, Hindus and Buddhists Genuine question.
Wonder when the Muslims will be allowing gay marriage. Can’t wait to see all the imams nancing around with pride flags.
BethRigby Social care funding - elderly care - as we were told. NO. Funds illegals. Not only are we paying via our income tax for these illegals. Our council tax too. We pay more each for these people than for our own health care.
BethRigby Simple then let’s make the churches pay taxes, and all the pervert priests will get a trial for their child abuse
BethRigby Stop paying universal credit to everyone who applies. Stop benefits and send people to work. People on benefits are better off than being at work. Benefits should be a temp. solution for six months to look for a job. After that STOP PAYING
BethRigby Says the man who has two rent free homes, paid £83k a year and has £3 million in the bank.
BethRigby He said food poverty was a priority at Christmas as his church announced plans to build on top grade food production land. He needs to sort himself out
CleudiGossage BethRigby It very well may be, but maybe Archbishop, you need to think about your own morals as well! LoveIsLove
BethRigby Sell some of the many assets the CoE have!
BethRigby Don't give to Churches, give to poor people in your area directly, that's what Jesus did. Churches don't spend the money they collect for the poor, never have and never will.
BethRigby My brother was locked up by a so called priest as our mother's expecting me. My mom was locked up by left to die 2 children Robed from her .my STARVED TO death 15 years ago. The church is a CULT money. He talk about care . Billions suffered at the hands of the church .
BethRigby Here’s a revolutionary idea - use central taxation to provide decent public services. It creates good employment. Stimulates the economy with the multiplier effect. And it’s what Jesus would do.
BethRigby Fact - Justin Welby like all his predecessors has been complicit with protecting & “ moving on “ abhorrent child sex offenders for hundreds of years. Therefore in my book he & his ilk aren’t worth the time of day let alone the media oxygen
BethRigby Has he suggested the Church of England start paying them? tax
BethRigby Tax the rich.
BethRigby Tax the churches
BethRigby Believe churches don’t pay tax. Maybe he should pipe down until that’s fixed.
BethRigby The man has hardly a word to say about Jesus but cannot help telling the govt what it should be doing every 5 minutes. He might want to re-read the parable of the talents.
BethRigby One must wonder, when Welby will concentrate on his day job.
BethRigby The Tory party, yes the party of low taxes, you’ve got it, the clue is in the name “party “ let’s party with the public money, champagne ya ya ya.
BethRigby Agree we should tax all religious institutions and private schools (like his Eton). But why is a political journalist on national news interviewing him. I value his opinion as much of that of someone who dedicated his life to sorcery or the peoples front of Judea.
BethRigby Tax the church
BethRigby A tax on the church and some of their gold perhaps?
Watch BethRigby's interview with Justin Welby in full here 👇
BethRigby Dead right but first we need to collect what is owed. There are many like Zahawi and the PM’s wife but who have escaped paying what they owe partly because there are not enough staff to investigate or collect what is due.
BethRigby He enabled this government knowing people would suffer, Christian my arse
BethRigby Do be the first to volunteer!
BethRigby Well,let's start with the CofE paying some taxes and giving up it's tax exemptions.
BethRigby Tax the churches then
BethRigby Says a homophobe
BethRigby
BethRigby We already pay massive taxes in the UK - on earnings, on what we buy, on what we save and when we die. The solution is not always to ‘increase’ taxes’. Drop the woke activity, charge those evading taxes, close the loopholes. Bam!- solution found.
BethRigby Could tax the churches too
BethRigby He could always put that spare £100million in the kitty!
BethRigby Well where do we start with this? Someone who's out of touch in charge of an organisation which is like mega rich telling us that we aren't squeezed enough and have to pay more? Unreal. Absolutely unreal. People like this need a reality check and removing.
BethRigby Why don’t you pray for more funding and leave taxpayers out of it?
BethRigby Better solution is to remove the tax free exemption that’s churches get, as they do fuck all these days to justify getting billions a year, and to not pay tax on the income
BethRigby Maybe the church could start paying taxes too 🤷♂️
BethRigby Put your tax and the churches tax where your mouth is. The church and its employees are minted. Working in finance, I have seen evidence of this first hand. Before I was born, my wealthy grandfather had a falling out with the church. They were constantly asking him for money.
BethRigby Is Archbishop of Canterbury a Communist party member?
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