IRELAND: Minister's gay union 'is threat to global church'
IRELAND: Minister's gay union 'is threat to global church'
Action will damage our relationships with other Christian denominations within Ireland and will cause difficulties for mission in other parts of the world
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/minister_s_gay_union_is_threat_to_global_church_1_3041486
September 9, 2011
THE civil partnership of a Church of Ireland minister threatens the church's international links within the Anglican Communion and with other Christian churches, a Church of Ireland minister has said.
The Rev Alan McCann said that as the news of the Very Rev Tom Gordon's same-sex union has spread around the world on the internet he has been contacted by Christian leaders in north America and Africa raising concerns about future co-operation on mission work.
The Rev McCann, who is also a deputy grand chaplain in the Orange Order, said that dean Gordon's civil partnership had ended the "hypocrisy" in the church, which was "heading for a split if this is not addressed".
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Action will damage our relationships with other Christian denominations within Ireland and will cause difficulties for mission in other parts of the world
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/minister_s_gay_union_is_threat_to_global_church_1_3041486
September 9, 2011
THE civil partnership of a Church of Ireland minister threatens the church's international links within the Anglican Communion and with other Christian churches, a Church of Ireland minister has said.
The Rev Alan McCann said that as the news of the Very Rev Tom Gordon's same-sex union has spread around the world on the internet he has been contacted by Christian leaders in north America and Africa raising concerns about future co-operation on mission work.
The Rev McCann, who is also a deputy grand chaplain in the Orange Order, said that dean Gordon's civil partnership had ended the "hypocrisy" in the church, which was "heading for a split if this is not addressed".
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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