King Charles Has 'Never Been Our Friend or Ally,' Says LGBTQ+ Activist Peter Tatchell
The newly crowned king has been complicit in discrimination through his silence, Tatchell says.
May 8, 2023
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The newly crowned king has been complicit in discrimination through his silence, Tatchell says.
âCriminalizing people with homosexual tendencies is an injustice,â Pope Francis said on the way home from a peacemaking mission in South Sudan.
The C of E reiterates its stance now that U.K. straight couples can get civil partnerships -- and they're not marriage, according to the church.
The Reverend Christopher Wardale (pictured) and partner Malcolm Macourt received the blessing at St. Thomas the Martyr Church in Newcastle following their civil partnership ceremony.
These are positive moves, but the church still won't perform same-sex weddings or ordain partnered gay clergy.
Actually, Jeremy Davies has been barred in one diocese but not another, underscoring the Church of England's mixed messages on same-sex marriage and other LGBT issues.
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That would be a way to change the Church of England's anti-LGBT policies, says Rev. Kelvin Holdsworth.
The Church of England won't let Mpho Andrea Tutu van Furth, an Anglican priest, conduct the service because she is in a same-sex marriage.
Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (pictured), struggling to hold together the troubled world Anglican family, urged church leaders gathered Sunday in England not to consecrate another gay bishop, saying the fellowship will be in ''grave peril'' without a moratorium.