Scottish Episcopal Church

[Doon frae Troon]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40190204

Seemingly the Anglican churches of the Southern Hemisphere are going to send missionaries to Scotland to help us.

We did teach them well 200 years ago.

 

[ManinBlack]

Don't think it'll be long before someone gets an infraction for their post here, or the thread gets closed. I couldn't possibly comment.

 

[Owen_Thomas_14]

I personally think this is a step in the right direction. It doesn't effect me directly but I do have friends who will be very happy about this ☺

 

[Farneyman]

Great news although I'm pretty sure the total number of church weddings must be well in the decline these days.

 

[shivas irons]

Dont get people started on this .

 

[Deleted member 15344]

Good to see the churches are dragging themselves into the 21st century

 

[PhilTheFragger]

Good to see the churches are dragging themselves into the 21st century

well one is, the others need to get with the program.

 

[Hobbit]

Great news!

A bit more compassion across many different aspects of life would be wonderful.

 

[Tashyboy]

What do I find ironic about this.

Watched a film a year or so ago, think it was based around the church in Boston in the USA. It was about the sexual abuse priests did you young church goers. It was sickening. At the end of the film, there was a list of all of the places throughout the world where sexual abuse by the church, and of all faiths took place. In was a truly unbelievable shocking list.

Yet these very people are the ones who have judged gays and stopped gay marriage for years.

A positive step in the right direction and not before time.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

The ironic daft part of me laughs that it is the men in the big gold pointy hats and long purple dresses with nice gold necklaces who do not want to marry gay folk.

 

[Blue in Munich]

What do I find ironic about this.

Watched a film a year or so ago, think it was based around the church in Boston in the USA. It was about the sexual abuse priests did you young church goers. It was sickening. At the end of the film, there was a list of all of the places throughout the world where sexual abuse by the church, and of all faiths took place. In was a truly unbelievable shocking list.

Yet these very people are the ones who have judged gays and stopped gay marriage for years.

A positive step in the right direction and not before time.

Spotlight. Great film & worthy best film Oscar winner IMHO. Actually made me swear out loud at the end of the credits.

 

[Tashyboy]

Spotlight. Great film & worthy best film Oscar winner IMHO. Actually made me swear out loud at the end of the credits.

As with most of my stories. There are massive holes in them. But that is the excellent film that i was on about. Cheers BIM

 

[SwingsitlikeHogan]

OK the Scottish Episcopal Church is bigger than the United Reformed Church, but I'll just note that on Saturday 9 July 2016, the General Assembly of the URC voted in favour of allowing its local churches to conduct and register marriages for same-sex couples. This meant that the URC was the largest UK denomination to freely permit the celebration and registration of marriages of same-sex couple in its churches.

Same sex marriage in a mainstream church is not completely new - there are enlightened traditions out there.