13 October 2015 A.D. 1st sodomite clerk to defy CoE on gay marriage elected to General Synod
13 October 2015 A.D. 1st sodomite clerk to defy CoE on gay
marriage elected to General Synod
Bushfield, Antony.
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First priest to defy Church on gay marriage elected to
General Synod
Mon 12
Oct 2015
By Antony
Bushfield
The first Church of England priest to defy the House
of Bishops and enter a gay marriage has been elected to the General Synod.
Revd Andrew Foreshew-Cain said he was "feeling
daunted, elated and ready", after the results for the Diocese of London
were announced.
He was the first serving vicar to reject the
Church's rules and marry his same sex partner in 2014, after the House of
Bishops ordered Anglican clergy in England not to enter gay marriages.
At the time officials said it would not be
"appropriate conduct".
In a tweet announcing his election he said there was
"hope for a kinder more compassionate Church".
Revd Foreshew-Cain is the vicar at St Mary with All
Souls church in Kilburn, and St James in West Hampstead.
The General Synod is generally considered the
parliament of the Church of England.
It makes major decisions within the Church, including,
recently, allowing women to become bishops.
Other dioceses will announce their members of the
Synod later in the year.
Andrea Williams, chief executive of Christian
Concern and a member of the Church of England's General Synod 2010 - 2015,
said: "Last year, Andrew Cain ignored biblical teaching and the clear
instruction of the House of Bishops and entered into a same-sex marriage.
"Andrew Cain's ongoing activism should no
longer be tolerated. His actions are designed to undermine the Church and her
teaching on marriage. His election to General Synod cannot be allowed to stand
and he should be swiftly removed from church leadership."
Meanwhile, Canon Jeremy Pemberton, another priest
who entered a gay marriage, was unsuccessful in his bid to be elected in the
Diocese of Lincoln.
Antony Bushfield
Antony works as a multimedia journalist at Premier.
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