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Church of Scotland votes in favour of allowing ministers in same sex civil...
The Church of Scotland has voted in favour of allowing people in same sex civil partnerships to be called as ministers and deacons. The historic decision was made by the General Assembly on the Mound...
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Scottish Episcopal Church to hold vote on same-sex weddings
The Scottish Episcopal Church is to vote next week on proposals to allow clergy to marry same-sex couples. Same-sex marriage became legal in Scotland in December last year – but the Church of Scotland,...
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Russian Church severs ties with Scotland & France churches: blessing LGBT...
Recent decisions by the Church of Scotland to ordain homosexual ministers and the United Protestant Church of France to bless same-sex marriages are acts “incompatible with the norms of Christian...
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Tony Campolo calls for ‘full acceptance’ of gay couples
The evangelical pastor and author Tony Campolo has said he’s changed his stance on homosexuality. In a blog on his website the American says “countless hours of prayer, study, conversation and...
View ArticleOne in eight new Scottish marriages are same-sex couples
Since same-sex marriage was introduced in Scotland, one in eight marriages have been between same-sex couples. There were 3,889 weddings in total between 31st December 2014 and 31st March 2015, with...
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Irish Presbyterians in Scottish gay ministers boycott
The Presbyterian Church in Ireland has delivered a resounding snub to its Scottish brethren by boycotting their Assembly in protest over a controversial gay clergy vote. The Scottish Church [sic] voted...
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Episcopalian Primus: Why our church is facing the challenge of same-sex marriage
Today the General Synod, the annual meeting, of the Scottish Episcopal Church considers whether we wish to make provision for same-sex marriage in our life, writes the Most Rev David Chillingworth,...
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Scottish Episcopal Church passes initial vote in favour of same-sex marriage
The Scottish Episcopal Church is on the way to permitting same-sex marriage – after a preliminary vote on the measure passed the General Synod. Same-sex marriage became legal in Scotland in December...
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Councillor branded ‘immature and embarrassing’ by Rev David Robertson over...
A formal complaint has been made to the SNP after a Dundee councillor was accused of mocking Christianity in an online spat. Senior SNP member Gregor Murray has been accused by the Rev David Robertson...
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How to be a Progressive, Affirming, Accepting, Welcoming … and BIBLICAL church
My church, St Peter’s Free Church in Dundee, is a progressive, affirming, accepting, welcoming, biblical church, writes Rev David Robertson. We even have a rainbow as one of our symbols! In today’s...
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Scotland to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female
Scotland is set to become one of the first countries in Europe to give legal recognition to people who are neither male nor female. Nicola Sturgeon pledged to reform gender recognition law to “bring it...
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‘Gender-fluidity’: Free Kirk accuses Scots political elites of...
The Moderator of the General Assembly of the Free Church of Scotland has written to Nicola Sturgeon calling for a debate on ‘gender-fluidity’ after the First Minister announced that an SNP Government...
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Four Scottish party leaders are now out as LGB, as Labour’s Kezia Dugdale...
Scottish Labour Party leader Kezia Dugdale has revealed that she has a female partner. Dugdale’s coming out in this interview with the Fabian Society, means four of Scotland’s political party leaders...
View ArticleTrainee Catholic priests are ‘hooking up using gay dating app Grindr at...
Trainee Catholic priests have been meeting up using the gay dating app Grindr at Ireland’s top seminary, it has been claimed. Dublin’s archbishop Dr Diarmuid Martin said he was ‘somewhat unhappy’ about...
View ArticleCatholic church’s anti-bullying strategy sent to Scottish Labour leader
The director of the Catholic Parliamentary Office, Anthony Horan, has sent a copy of the Catholic church’s anti-bullying strategy to Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, after a controversial Tweet in...
View Article‘Church ministers must marry same-sex couples’, says Swedish PM
Ministers in Sweden’s state church cannot “refuse to marry same-sex couples”, the country’s Prime Minister has said. Stefan Löfven announced that church leaders should be required to marry same-sex...
View ArticleArchbishops criticised for inviting proposer of Scottish gay-marriage motion...
A group of the Church of England General Synod’s laity and clergy have been placed in an “invidious” position, they say, by the “entirely wrong” invitation to the Bishop of Edinburgh, the Rt Revd John...
View ArticleChildren facing bullying over pro-marriage and pro-life views in Scotland
School children are being verbally attacked for believing in traditional marriage and upholding the life of the unborn, MSPs have been told. Numerous accounts – including one girl being told she...
View ArticleDrag queens may read to Scots primary-aged kids in new initiative
LGBT campaigners have backed a new initiative which involves drag queens reading and singing to primary-aged children. Drag Queen Story Time, inspired by a similar scheme in the US, is now being pushed...
View ArticleChurch of England is in ‘grave spiritual danger’, warns Archbishop
The leader of the Anglican Church in Nigeria has slammed the General Synod of the Church of England for ‘false teaching’ and is warning that it is in ‘grave spiritual danger’. Archbishop Nicholas...
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