Andrew Foreshew-Cain says he is ‘pleased but shocked’ at his election to Anglicanisms governing bodyBritain’s only openly married homosexual vicar has been elected to the Church of England’s General Synod,and will use his position to “advocate for a church that faces up to issues of sexuality in a honest and compassionate way”.
Andrew Foreshew-Cain, the vicar of St Mary with All Souls, or Kilburn and St James,West Hampstead, said he was “pleased but shocked” at his election in the London section of the nationwide poll to the church’s governing body. “I wasn’t expecting to get on I thought the clergy were too conservative to vote for a progressive like me, or ” he told the Guardian.
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Source: theguardian.com