Members of the clergy enter York Minster before a service to consecrate Reverend Libby Lane as the first female bishop in the Church of England, in York, northern England, January 26, 2015. | Reuters/Phil Noble
The Bishop of Liverpool, Paul Bayes, has ramped up pressure on the Church of England to allow clergy to bless same-sex relationships by making the controversial call for a gender neutral marriage canon.
The call comes in advance of elections to the governing body, the General Synod, where evangelicals are seeking to increase numbers in a bid to protect the doctrine of the Church.
Speaking to a national conference on Saturday for revisionist activists in the CofE, Bishop Bayes said: I want to see a gender-neutral marriage canon, such as they have in the Episcopal Church (in the U.S.) or in the Scottish Episcopal Church.
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The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, in a video to promote the declaration “Declaring the Sanctity of Life and the Dignity of All”
The Bishop of Liverpool, the Rt Revd Paul Bayes, in a video to promote the declaration “Declaring the Sanctity of Life and the Dignity of All”
MORE than 370 religious leaders around the world have signed a new declaration that seeks forgiveness for religious teachings that have harmed LGBT people, calls for an end to the criminalisation of people on the grounds of sexual orientation, and urges a ban on so-called “conversion therapy”.