New law will forbid gay couples from engaging in se×ual activity

HomosHomosexuality has against all odds, sneaked its way into the Church, and has since been growing albeit causing division within the Church.



The Anglican Church is one of many to recognize gay partnerships as part of the modern Church but acknowledge the biblical standard of marriage as a lifelong union between a man and a woman.

In a likely bid to spell out the place of gay civil partnership in the Church, the Church of England, on Thursday announced changes to the Church's marriage law.


A statement issued by the House of Bishops, led by the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby, said Christians in gay or straight civil partnerships should be s*×ually abstinent.

Welby said s*× is for straight married couples only, and that a lifelong union between a man and a woman, contracted with the making of vows remains the proper context for s*×ual activity.




The statement published by the House of Bishops, which includes all 42 of the most senior diocesan bishops, read: ‘It would not be right to produce an authorised public liturgy in connection with the registering of civil partnerships.

“With opposite-se× civil partnerships, and with those for same-s*× couples, the Church’s teaching on s*×ual ethics remains unchanged.



“For Christians, marriage – that is the lifelong union between a man and a woman, contracted with the making of vows – remains the proper context for s*×ual activity.

“Because of the ambiguity about the place of s*×ual activity within civil partnerships of both sorts, and the church’s teaching that marriage between a man and a woman is the proper context for s*×ual intercourse, we do not believe that it is possible for the church unconditionally to accept civil partnerships as unequivocally reflecting the tea of the church.”