BBC: Battling 'liberal' Church policies

[Traditionalists]…have set up what amounts to a church within a church in order to organise for a long struggle against the ordination of gay clergy, the blessing of gay relationships, and what they claim is a drift towards accepting other religions as offering “equal access to God”.

The Rev Rod Thomas, of the conservative Church of England group Reform, helped to formulate the organisation’s strategy.

He claimed that traditionalists had been forced to create a new alliance to prevent the Bible being rewritten by liberal Anglicans to suit their current lifestyles.

“The Anglican Church is being destroyed by false teaching of the Bible on issues such as homosexuality”, he said.

“We are gong to stand against this trend, and spread the true message of the Bible with confidence.”

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