One of the first couples were a couple of old dykes who are also both “priests”

The Anglican Church is an absolute circus sideshow at this point.

Unfortunately, the Catholic Church in Germany is more or less the same thing.

AP:

Church of England priests offered officially sanctioned blessings of same-sex partnerships for the first time on Sunday, though a ban on church weddings for gay couples remains in place amid deep divisions within global Anglicanism over marriage and sexuality.

In one of the first ceremonies, the Rev. Catherine Bond and the Rev. Jane Pearce had their union blessed at St John the Baptist church, in Felixstowe, eastern England, where both are associate priests.

The couple knelt in front of Canon Andrew Dotchin, who held their heads as he gave “thanks for Catherine and Jane, to the love and friendship they share, and their commitment to one another as they come before you on this day.”

The church’s national assembly voted in February to allow clergy to bless the unions of same-sex couples who have had civil weddings or partnerships. The words used for the blessings, known as prayers of love and faith, were approved by the church’s House of Bishops on Tuesday and used for the first time on Sunday.

The compromise was struck following five years of discussions about the church’s position on sexuality. Church leaders offered an apology for the church’s failure to welcome LGBTQ people, but also endorsed the doctrine that marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Clergy won’t be required to perform same-sex blessings if they disagree with them.

The blessings can be used in regular church services. The church’s governing body has also drawn up a plan for separate “services of prayer and dedication” for same-sex couples that would resemble weddings, but it has not yet been formally approved.

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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has said he won’t personally bless any same-sex couples because it’s his job to unify the world’s 85 million Anglicans. Welby is the spiritual leader of both the Church of England and the global Anglican Communion of which it is a member.

Wasn’t the point of the Protestant revolution that they didn’t want to acknowledge the authority of the Pope?

This Welby guy is worse than even Francis, and he’s also actually Jewish.

Go figure.

Is there anything this Jew gets right?

Did you ever wonder what would happen if a tranny went racist?

Well. Now you know.

New York Post:

A transgender Lutheran bishop in California resigned over allegations of racism from the congregation.

San Francisco bishop Megan Rohrer became the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America’s first openly transgender bishop last year. Rohrer faced backlash following a December vote to oust Rev. Nelson Rabell-Gonzalez as pastor over his mostly-Latino congregation following an investigation into verbal harassment allegations, NBC News reported.

Video footage shows Rohrer announcing Gonzalez’s removal on December 12. The distraught congregation can be heard yelling questions and complaints at Rohrer.

“Pastor Nelson has worked a lot for this day to happen. He has done a lot for our community. He has fought for our rights,” one congregant said, according to the Associated Press.

The church later set up a panel to hear complaints from Gonzalez’s congregation, who were deeply unhappy with their pastor’s removal.

Rohrer had reportedly worn a bulletproof vest to the December 12 service announcing Gonzalez’s removal and had threatened to call the police on a pair of congregants, according to the AP.

Some congregants alleged that Rohrer had carried out the firing in a racist manner, and the panel ultimately recommended racial sensitivity training for Rohrer and other church leaders.

Everyone is a “racist” according to the current definition of the term, which is “noticing that race exists.”

You can chop your dick off or slice your breasts off or whatever you want, you’re not going to stop noticing that different people are different from each other.

The Church of Scotland is only now recognizing that the Christian faith allows anal marriage?

What kind of backward country is this?

The Guardian:

The Church of Scotland has voted to allow same-sex marriages, after fresh warnings that its historical opposition had increased the church’s decline towards irrelevance.

The church’s general assembly, its decision-making body, voted by 274 to 136 on Monday to allow its ministers and deacons to opt in to officiate at same-sex weddings, ending a centuries-old prohibition.

The church’s legislation will be updated to remove references to a marriage taking place between a husband and wife, and refer instead to “parties”.

Some ministers said within minutes of the vote that they had immediately applied to be registered to carry out same-sex weddings, including the Rev James Bissett, a chaplain to the Royal Air Force’s air cadets.

I have just emailed the @churchscotland Principal Clerk's office to ask that I be registered as a celebrant of same sex marriages.

— Rev James Bissett (@Revinthenorth) May 23, 2022

The move was also welcomed by equalities campaigners and other church groups. Scotland’s Churches Trust said the first weddings would take place soon.

Huge news from Scotland today as the @churchscotland General Assembly votes in favour of allowing same-sex marriages to happen in their churches.

The first of these celebrations will likely take place later this year. #LoveIsLove

Full story here 👇https://t.co/VIimlRCxf3

— Scotland's Churches Trust (@SChurchesTrust) May 23, 2022

The vote makes the Church of Scotland the largest church in the UK to allow gay marriages, increasing the split within the Protestant faith. It has already allowed gay ministers to marry.

Faced with the threat of a global revolt within the Anglican communion, the Church of England has consistently refused to approve same-sex marriages.

In 2017 the Scottish Episcopal church, which is Anglican, voted at its synod to approve same-sex marriages, becoming the first in Scotland to do so. The Church of Wales has indicated it may follow suit in several years’ time. Methodists, Quakers and the United Reformed church already conduct ceremonies.

The measure had already been supported in an indicative vote by Church of Scotland presbyteries, which are its local governing bodies, but critics warned it could increase internal rifts and leave the church open to legal action.

The Rev Scott Rennie, a minister at the centre of a bitter and protracted dispute in the church over the employment of openly gay clergy 13 years ago, told the general assembly he was heartened that despite the fear and uncertainty surrounding the proposal, it now had majority support.

“Marriage is a wonderful thing,” Rennie said. “My marriage to my husband, Dave, nurtures my life and my ministry, and frankly I do not think I could be a minister of this church without his love and support. It is always there in the background. Same-sex marriage is like opposite-sex marriage and it has its joys and sorrows, its glories and its tensions. It’s pretty normal, really.”

Another speaker, Craig Dobney, told the general assembly that its past opposition to gay marriages had alienated people: a primary school near his church had stopped using it after the church refused to appoint a gay minister. “I worry that our churches have become irrelevant to our communities,” he said.

There were warnings from opponents that the measure could expose ministers who opposed it to pressure and ostracism from equalities activists. Some are expected to call for stronger protection for traditionalists in church legislation at the general assembly on Wednesday.

The Rev Alistair Cook said he opposed the measure and would continue to refer to marriages taking place between a man and a woman. He said it was disingenuous to suggest this was a matter for individual ministers; this was church policy. “That is a deep theological change for the church,” he said.

The Rev Ben Thorp, another critic, said there would be continuing tensions for ministers and presbyteries, since more than a third of presbyteries had voted against it. Churches that refuse to participate risk being targeted by groups supportive of same-sex marriage, he said.

Oh right, targeted by the gay mafia for trying to reduce the amount of gay anal.

That’s an age-old canard, almost as old as the canard that Jews are dishonest.

This is the only kind of “church” they want

Same guy, 8 years ago, explaining why it’s okay that Britain is getting islamized

Join us on a magical journey to having no dick at all!

Breitbart:

One UK Bishop has demanded that the UK government implement a ban on trans “conversion therapy”, describing the process in which people become transgender as a “sacred journey”.

The clergyman’s comments come as Britain moves to ban so-called “conversion therapy” for homosexuals, though those who identify as “transgender” will not be covered by the proposed legislation.

Many are not happy about this exclusion however, with a number of activists expressing outrage over the government’s decision, despite attempts by the UK Conservative Party to appease the country’s LGBT lobby.

One of those unhappy with the exclusion is Rowan Williams, an Anglican Bishop who previously served as the Archbishop of Canterbury, considered to be the most senior clerical role in the Anglican church.

Williams has since written a letter to UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson urging him to implement a ban on trans conversion therapy.

“Conversion to Christianity is the event or process by which a person responds joyfully to the glorious embrace of the eternally loving and ever-merciful God,” The Telegraph reports Williams as writing in the letter, which is also signed by a number of other Anglican bishops.

This woman is a “priest” in the same “church”

“It has nothing to do with so-called ‘conversion therapy’ – pressure put by one person on another to fit their expectations; the attempt to induce vulnerable and isolated people to deny who they truly are,” he continued.

“To be trans is to enter a sacred journey of becoming whole: precious, honoured and loved, by yourself, by others and by God,” the former senior cleric also wrote.

Britain’s incoming ban on so-called “conversion therapy” has prompted significant fears regarding the right to free speech in the country, with many religious people fearing that the law will curb their ability to pray.

“It shouldn’t be illegal for Christians to teach their faith, or for people to pray for their friends,” argued the Christian Institute regarding the ban. “But that’s clearly what the campaigners want.”

I guess all of the people complaining about the Pope’s gay agenda can take some solace in the fact that the Anglican Church’s gay agenda is so, so very much worse.

Is this a dyke, or a tranny?