{"id":11841,"date":"2011-02-15T09:50:05","date_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=11841"},"modified":"2011-02-15T09:50:05","modified_gmt":"2011-02-15T14:50:05","slug":"uk-same-sex-marriages-to-be-permitted-in-anglican-churches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/uk-same-sex-marriages-to-be-permitted-in-anglican-churches\/","title":{"rendered":"UK: Same-sex marriages to be permitted in Anglican churches"},"content":{"rendered":"

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Ministers are expected to publish plans to enable same-sex couples to “marry” in church, the BBC has learned.<\/p>\n

Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone is to propose lifting the ban on civil partnerships taking place in religious settings in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

There are no plans to compel religious organisations to hold ceremonies and the Church of England has said it would not allow its churches to be used.<\/p>\n

Gay rights campaigner Peter Tatchell said the change was “long overdue”.<\/p>\n

Civil partnership ceremonies are currently entirely secular.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What next for the Church of England, one wonders. This<\/a>, perhaps:<\/p>\n

RUNCORN – England – Under new Coalition rules spearheaded by Nick Clegg, all churches in England and Wales will now be forced to include gay bath houses in the religious buildings.<\/p>\n

The new initiative pushed through by Deputy Prime Minister, Nick Clegg, will involve massive renovations to all the churches in the British Isles.<\/p>\n

Equalities Minister Lynne Featherstone is to propose pushing through the gay bath house bill making it compulsory to include bath houses in all religious settings in England and Wales.<\/p>\n

“We’ll have bath houses where the men and priests can congregate and even a viewing gallery where Coalition church bath house inspectors can ensure that the gay orgies within the churches are conducted in a gay enough manner,” Arch Deacon of the Bristol Diocese, Henry Felcher, told the BBC.<\/p>\n

Already, there has been interest from some celebrities like George Michael and Sir Elton John.<\/p>\n

“We’ll be going to church a lot more often in England now. I’ll bring the baby with me to tell him about the bees and the bees,” Sir Elton John told the Los Angeles Times.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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