The Dean of York, the Very Rev Vivienne Faull, said the Church had a habit of waiting until something was “blindingly obvious” to the rest of society before it changed its own mind.
“The blessing of a gay relationship is not theologically a problem for me personally, but I’m under the discipline of the Church and I keep the rules,” she told Radio Times. She has never formally blessed a gay partnership but has found ways of meeting the need for celebration within the Church’s rules.
“When people have come to me in the past and said, ”˜We’re looking for a way of celebrating our civil partnership, how shall we do it?’, we’ve found ways of doing it.
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A case where what’s blindingly obvious is obvious only to those who are blind.
No doubt close to the top of the women to be bishops list.
She or Kate for next ABC?
Coming from a clergypersun in a church that is a by-word for being out of touch with the population of England, that is rich!