{"id":32427,"date":"2025-08-04T13:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T17:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=32427"},"modified":"2025-08-04T15:15:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T19:15:27","slug":"the-curious-case-of-the-archbishop-who-doesnt-need-to-get-married-in-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/the-curious-case-of-the-archbishop-who-doesnt-need-to-get-married-in-church\/","title":{"rendered":"The curious case of the Archbishop who doesn\u2019t need to get married in church"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to live in Machen, a small Welsh village about 12km away from where the new Archbishop of Wales, the Most Rev. Cherry Vann, is to be consecrated in Newport Cathedral. Much as I would enjoy visiting my old home, I won\u2019t be using that as an excuse to attend Ms. Van\u2019s installation as Archbishop.<\/p>\n

Vann is collecting a catalogue of firsts to add to her r\u00e9sum\u00e9: she was the first female priest to be ordained in the UK, and now she is the first lesbian primate to be in a homoerotic relationship with her partner for the last 30 years.<\/p>\n

What is curious about that, you may be wondering. After all, the only thing that the Anglican church can do that excites any interest in the secular press is to have yet another scandal exposed or to appoint a new archbishop with unusual sexual tastes. I\u2019ve come to suspect that it\u2019s all part of a devious Anglican strategy to be noticed.<\/p>\n

The curious<\/em> thing about it is that, while every liberal Western province is clamouring to enshrine same-sex marriage into their liturgies, this Archbishop says she doesn\u2019t need<\/em> to be married in church.<\/p>\n

If an Archbishop doesn\u2019t need to be married in church, why does anyone else?<\/p>\n

Problem solved: there will be no same-sex marriages in churches because it isn\u2019t needed.<\/p>\n

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

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The archbishop grew up in a religious family in Whetstone in Leicestershire, following in her church organist father\u2019s footsteps by studying at the Royal College of Music and then the Royal Schools of Music, where she trained as a teacher.<\/p>\n

She entered an Anglican theological college in 1986 to prepare for ordination and then worked in the Manchester diocese, becoming a priest in 1994 and archdeacon of Rochdale in 2008.<\/p>\n

Gender and sexuality are still highly divisive issues in the Anglican communion. Even in her new role as the first female and first openly gay archbishop in the UK, Vann was cautious on the topic of gay marriage.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t personally feel the need to get married in church; Wendy and I have been together for 30 years, we\u2019ve made our vows, and we are committed to each other.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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