ANGLICAN Bishop of Gippsland John McIntyre questioned the church’s stance on gay marriage during his address to the diocese’s 36th Synod on Friday night.
Here is an extract of his address:
“In the life of our diocese, we rather belatedly committed to a listening process to hear the stories of gay and lesbian people, and to reflect on how seriously we take the commendation of the 1998 Lambeth Conference motion 1.10, which asks us to offer hospitality to these Christian brothers and sisters, who the motion reminds us are “full members of the Body of Christ”. Recent circumstances have now made this a far more urgent priority than perhaps we had previously failed to recognise.
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