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Two Anglican parish priests at the blessing of their union.The blessing of same-sex couples does not cause passions and controversies only in the Catholic Church. <\/span>What is happening with the Anglicans and the Methodists proves that wherever the churches did this, they were soon divided.<\/span><\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
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Anglicans.\u00a0<\/strong>In the Anglican Church, they began to bless same sex couples\u00a0only a day before the release of the Vatican document\u00a0Fiducia supplicans<\/em>\u00a0, which Pope Francis allowed to bless irregular and homosexual couples.\u00a0That is, December 17, 2023.<\/h2>\n

It is interesting that the General Synod of the Church of England used a similar argumentation as the Disaster for the Doctrine of the Faith in justifying this decision: marriage is only a union between a man and a woman, but the good that is found in the couple can be enhanced with a blessing.<\/h2>\n

Even the restrained attitude of the spiritual head of the Anglicans, Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, who declared that he would not personally bless homosexual couples, did not prevent the bishops from Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Pacific, associated in the conservative network GAFCON (Global Anglican Future Conference), from declaring breaking away from the Church of England.<\/h2>\n

“What we have proposed as a way forward is not nearly enough for many, while for others it is already too much,”\u00a0responded<\/a>\u00a0the Bishop of London Sarah Mullally for the AP.<\/h2>\n

Professor of political science at Eastern Illinois University Ryan Burge, who is also a pastor of the American Baptist Church,\u00a0added<\/a>\u00a0that African bishops across Christian churches have powerful ammunition in their hands: “They are telling the West: We are the ones who grow.”\u00a0You may have money, but we have numbers.”<\/h2>\n

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Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby.<\/p>\n

Methodists.\u00a0<\/strong>Even more dramatic is the situation in the United Methodist Church, which with six million members is the third largest church in the USA (after the Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention).<\/h2>\n

I mean, she was until recently.\u00a0During the past five years,\u00a0a quarter of the congregations left<\/a>\u00a0it (approximately 7,700 out of 30,500).\u00a0The church has another seven million believers outside the USA, mainly in Africa, but many of them have already left and others are leaving.\u00a0This also applies to the Evangelical Methodist Church in Slovakia, which left the United Methodist Church in 2022 and subsequently transferred to the newly founded conservative Global Methodist Church.\u00a0We wrote more about it\u00a0in this place<\/a>\u00a0.<\/h2>\n

A similar decision was made by many other Methodist churches, provinces, or congregations that no longer felt at home in the United Methodist Church.<\/h2>\n

The reason for this is that although the general conference of the church in 2019 rejected the liberalization of the Bible’s teaching on sexuality by a majority of 53 percent, many, especially American progressive churches, ignore this decision.\u00a0An example is the consecration of the first lesbian bishop, although current norms do not allow it.<\/h2>\n

And what else.\u00a0<\/strong>A similar division in the USA also occurred in the Episcopal, Presbyterian, and Evangelical Lutheran churches. On the contrary, the Southern Baptist Convention or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) still adhere to traditional doctrine.<\/h2>\n

Of the three largest Christian denominations \u2013 Catholics, Orthodox, and Anglicans \u2013 currently, access to homosexual couples does not cause internal tension only among the Orthodox. On the contrary, when at the end of last year the Greek government announced its intention to promote same-sex marriages (registered partnerships have been valid there since 2015), the local Orthodox Church\u00a0responded with a clear “no”<\/a>\u00a0.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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