IRELAND: Gay Row may split church
IRELAND: Gay Row may split church
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/gay_row_may_split_church_1_3031748
September 7, 2011
A CHURCH of Ireland cleric's civil partnership could lead to the all-island church splitting along north-south lines, one of its most influential evangelical members has warned.
Dermot O'Callaghan, who is seen as the leading evangelical layman in the Church of Ireland, stressed that no-one in the church wants a split, but said that the implications of the Rev Tom Gordon's gay partnership could be "fundamental".
Mr O'Callaghan, a member of the Church of Ireland's General Synod for more than three decades, said that there was "a fair amount of 'live and let live'" in the Church of Ireland but that news of the Rev Gordon's partnership had come "out of the blue".
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/gay_row_may_split_church_1_3031748
September 7, 2011
A CHURCH of Ireland cleric's civil partnership could lead to the all-island church splitting along north-south lines, one of its most influential evangelical members has warned.Dermot O'Callaghan, who is seen as the leading evangelical layman in the Church of Ireland, stressed that no-one in the church wants a split, but said that the implications of the Rev Tom Gordon's gay partnership could be "fundamental".
Mr O'Callaghan, a member of the Church of Ireland's General Synod for more than three decades, said that there was "a fair amount of 'live and let live'" in the Church of Ireland but that news of the Rev Gordon's partnership had come "out of the blue".
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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