UK: Evangelicals in last minute plea to mobilize church for marriage
UK: Evangelicals in last minute plea to mobilize church for marriage
December 7, 2012
The Council of Reform today urged the Church of England's House of Bishops not to concentrate exclusively upon discussing the issue of the Consecration of Women to the Episcopate when it meets next week, but to focus additionally on the much more pressing and significant issue of the threat to marriage.
Following a 24 hour meeting in Sheffield, the Council issued an urgent statement that said,
"It is understood that Government proposals for a new law on so called "gay marriage" may be imminent and that the proposals may require consummation for a "gay marriage" to be legally valid. Everybody's marriage will be affected by the result. In law, marriage is a sexual relationship. Incapacity and wilful refusal to consummate a marriage are grounds for annulment, and adultery is one of the five facts which demonstrate irretrievable breakdown.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
December 7, 2012
The Council of Reform today urged the Church of England's House of Bishops not to concentrate exclusively upon discussing the issue of the Consecration of Women to the Episcopate when it meets next week, but to focus additionally on the much more pressing and significant issue of the threat to marriage.
Following a 24 hour meeting in Sheffield, the Council issued an urgent statement that said,
"It is understood that Government proposals for a new law on so called "gay marriage" may be imminent and that the proposals may require consummation for a "gay marriage" to be legally valid. Everybody's marriage will be affected by the result. In law, marriage is a sexual relationship. Incapacity and wilful refusal to consummate a marriage are grounds for annulment, and adultery is one of the five facts which demonstrate irretrievable breakdown.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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