The Church of England faces its biggest rupture with the State in 500 years under government plans to legalise gay marriage.
Senior church sources warned that if the legislation goes ahead as proposed, the only way forward will be to cut an important tie between Church and State.
Divorcing the Church from its role as religious registrar for the State would not amount to total disestablishment, but it would be a significant step in that direction and would generate enormous passion and anguish from the pews upwards.
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([London] Times) Same Sex Marriage plan could divorce Church from State
The Church of England faces its biggest rupture with the State in 500 years under government plans to legalise gay marriage.
Senior church sources warned that if the legislation goes ahead as proposed, the only way forward will be to cut an important tie between Church and State.
Divorcing the Church from its role as religious registrar for the State would not amount to total disestablishment, but it would be a significant step in that direction and would generate enormous passion and anguish from the pews upwards.
Read it all (requires subscription) and there are other articles there (as of this posting the Independent, the Guardian, the Press Assocation, the Daily Mail and the Telegraph). Note that you may also find a picture of the front page of tomorrow’s [London] Times there.