Links to today’s news paper coverage
Traditional teaching on marriage endorsed
Irish Times – The General Synod of the Church of Ireland has reaffirmed the church’s traditional teaching on marriage as “of one man with one woman”, while welcoming all people as members in a motion passed by two-to-one majority in Dublin on Saturday.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0514/1224316063894.html
No murder in the cathedral – just sex
Irish Times – He chose from the edition of May 12th, 1982, all of 30 years ago, when the Church of Ireland General Synod was wrestling with its conscience on another issue and procedure got in the way, so to speak. Then, it was women priests. Now, it is gay priests.
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2012/0514/1224316063922.html
Church of Ireland Synod blasted for ‘homophobia’ after vote on marriage
Belfast Telegraph – By Alf McCreary. The churches have been branded “the last bastion of homophobia” following a Church of Ireland vote to back the traditional Christian view of marriage alone. The ruling General Synod voted to pass a controversial motion that “faithfulness within marriage is the only normative context for sexual intercourse”.
Gay rights campaigner Gerry Lynch, of Changing Attitudes Ireland and a member of St George’s Church in Belfast, said: “Nobody says that my love life is not ‘normative’ when the collection plate is passed round, or when I come in on a Saturday to get the church ready for Sunday, or spend time with distressed people who often turn up at a city centre church. “The General Synod vote confirmed many gay people’s experience of the churches as the last bastion of homophobia.”
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/church-of-ireland-synod-blasted-for-homophobia-after-vote-on-marriage-16158234.html
CoI bishops split on marriage vote
News Letter – Church of Ireland bishops have taken the highly unusual step of publicly voting against a motion brought by other bishops which re-stated the church’s traditional teaching on marriage.
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/coi-bishops-split-on-marriage-vote-1-3838456