The Sunday Telegraph reports that the Church of England is considering giving greater recognition to homosexual clergy in relationships.
According to the Sunday Telegraph, Bishops and senior clergy will debate at next month's General Synod whether the Church should provide same-sex couples with the same financial benefits as are awarded to married couples.
The private member's motion (to be released this week) calls on the Archbishops' Council, chaired by Rowan Williams, to introduce changes that would "provide for pension benefits to be paid to the surviving civil partners of deceased clergy on the same basis as they are currently paid to surviving spouses".
Alison Ruoff, a conservative-evangelical on the General Synod, expressed concern over the implications of the motion.
"It wouldn't be right for the Church to provide gay clergy's partners with the same pensions as it would mean that the Church would be recognising homosexual relationships in the same way as marriage," she said.
"It would show that the Church is becoming increasingly liberal and moving further from Biblical teaching."
According to the Telegraph around 200 priests are believed to have entered civil partnerships since they were introduced in 2004.
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(Source: The Sunday Telegraph, 17/01/10)
"It would show that the Church is becoming increasingly liberal and moving further from Biblical teaching."
According to the Telegraph around 200 priests are believed to have entered civil partnerships since they were introduced in 2004.
Click here for article
(Source: The Sunday Telegraph, 17/01/10)
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