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Wednesday, 15 October 2008 |
 Church of England parishes unhappy at liberal teachings on homosexuality have been urged to seek alternative oversight from another bishop if their own diocesan bishop expounds “unbiblical” teaching from the pulpit.
Evangelicals at a conference in Central London were told that the Church of England now consists of two religions, one liberal and pro-gay and the other conservative and strictly biblical.
The Rev Rod Thomas, the chairman of Reform, the conservative evangelical grouping that represents dozens of Anglican congregations, told parishes that they should go ahead and seek alternative oversight, even if the Church of England fails to accommodate this solution through its General Synod.
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Monday, 06 October 2008 |
 A Church of England clergyman was criticised by his own diocese today after he wrote that gay men should be forced to have "sodomy" warnings tattooed on them.
The remarks by the Rev Peter Mullen, Rector of St Michael's Cornhill in the City of London, were contained in a series of comments on his internet blog.
Mr Mullen, 66, wrote: "It is time that religious believers began to recommend ... discouragements of homosexual practices after the style of warnings on cigarette packets.
"Let us make it obligatory for homosexuals to have their backsides tattooed with the slogan SODOMY CAN SERIOUSLY DAMAGE YOUR HEALTH and their chins with FELLATIO KILLS." In the same blog, Mr Mullen called for all gay pride parades, which he branded "obscene", to be outlawed.
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Thursday, 07 August 2008 |
 Gay relationships can "reflect the love of God" in a way that is comparable to marriage, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams.
In a series of letters from 2000 and 2001, when he was still archbishop of Wales, Williams wrote that scriptural prohibitions against homosexuality, such as those in Leviticus, were addressed "to heterosexuals looking for sexual variety in their experience".
In the correspondence, an exchange with an evangelical Christian, Williams argued that passages criticising homosexual activity were not aimed at people who were gay by nature.
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Saturday, 02 August 2008 |
The consecration of a gay Anglican bishop has led to sexual license, a new form of colonisation and ridicule for the church, it was claimed yesterday by bishops attending the Lambeth conference in Canterbury.
They aired their grievances during group discussions about the US Episcopal church's decision to consecrate Gene Robinson as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003.
In a first draft of these reflections on human sexuality, they explained why the issue of gay and lesbian relations was sensitive and why it posed a challenge for Anglicans around the world.
"In some places the church is ridiculed as the gay church so membership is lost. It is experienced as a new form of colonisation," the draft said. "It is seen as leading to sexual license. Bishops cannot be a symbol for unity when their consecration divides the church. In some regions the issue has become a basis for hostile actions."
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Wednesday, 11 June 2008 |
 A gay church worker claims he was bullied out of his job by a manager who "would say something about gay sex every day".
Stephen Price, 25, of Clydach, near Abergavenny, said Mair Jones, 40, turned "every conversation" to sex.
Mr Price is claiming sexual harassment and discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation against the Presbyterian Church of Wales. The church denies the charges. The Cardiff employment tribunal continues.
Giving evidence on Tuesday, Mr Price, who is openly gay, said he worked alongside Ms Jones at the church's 250-year-old Trefeca centre, a 37-bed retreat near Brecon, Powys, visited by church groups from around Britain.
He told the hearing he was forced to quit as the assistant manager because of Ms Jones's ceaseless comments about sex, which included calling him a "stupid poof".
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Thursday, 10 April 2008 |
 The Archbishop of Canterbury has condemned death threats made against the leader of a group representing homosexual Anglicans in England.
Dr Rowan Williams said threats against Rev Colin Coward, director of Changing Attitude, marked the "latest round of unchristian bullying". He was also criticising assaults on gay Anglicans in Nigeria. His comments follow a global dispute over homosexuality in the worldwide Anglican Church in recent years.
The divisions in the church over homosexuality began with the ordination of a gay bishop by the liberal American branch of Anglicanism, the Episcopal Church, in 2003.
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