Clergy vote against report by 100 to 93 in blow to archbishop of Canterbury as he tries to chart course between apparently unreconcilable wings of church [br]‘Honour love whatever package it comes in’: LGBT Christians on the synod vote The Church of England has been plunged into fresh turmoil after its general assembly threw out a report on same-sex relationships in a rebuff to bishops following nearly three years of intense internal discussion and intractable divisions.
The C of E’s synod,meeting in London this week, voted on Thursday to effectively reject the report, or which upholds traditional teaching that marriage is a lifelong union of a man and a woman.
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Source: theguardian.com