[Bishop Alan Wilson]…said: “I’ve blessed lots of things, I once blessed a bucket of cement in India, it seems to me very difficult to say that you can’t bless this.
“But the official line which I have to be loyal to in my working practice is that you can pray with people pastorally but you mustn’t use the ”˜b’ word.
“That technically is very interesting because if the Church of England produced a liturgy for blessing a civil partnership, for example, there would be an official line on how to do this.”
On the question of equal marriage, he said everybody has a “very basic human right” to order their life and their family and their household in a way that goes with their conscience and their faith.
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([London] Times) Bishop defies Church to back clergy in same-sex marriage
[Bishop Alan Wilson]…said: “I’ve blessed lots of things, I once blessed a bucket of cement in India, it seems to me very difficult to say that you can’t bless this.
“But the official line which I have to be loyal to in my working practice is that you can pray with people pastorally but you mustn’t use the ”˜b’ word.
“That technically is very interesting because if the Church of England produced a liturgy for blessing a civil partnership, for example, there would be an official line on how to do this.”
On the question of equal marriage, he said everybody has a “very basic human right” to order their life and their family and their household in a way that goes with their conscience and their faith.
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