Do gays have a god-given right to the pulpit?
Same-sex civil partnerships are on their way and the Church will be faced with the choice between holding on to discriminatory and outdated ideas which will make less and less sense in a society where gay and lesbian people are regarded as equal citizens or openly welcoming gay people and their relationships.The current situation encourages a climate of repression which undermines Christian wholeness, sexual or otherwise, and promotes, rather then prevents, homophobia in the Church.The way forward for the Church of England is to allow all Christians, ordained and lay, enough personal integrity to work out faithful patterns of sexual and personal loving relationships, irrespective of whether we are heterosexual, gay, or lesbian.AGAINST GAY PRIESTS: The Rev. Eric Bramhall, vicar, All Saint’s, Childwall and member of the General Synod of the Church of EnglandTHE conference at St Nicholas’s Church comes under the banner Changing Attitudes.The aim, it seems, is to persuade the church to acc
