UK’s bishops apologize to LGBTQI+ people for ‘shameful’ treatment

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'We have not loved you as God loves you, and that is profoundly wrong.... We affirm, publicly and unequivocally, that LGBTQI+ people are welcome and valued: we are all children of God,' say the Church of England bishops.

LONDON, United Kingdom – Church of England bishops apologized to LGBTQI+ people on Friday, January 20, for the rejection and hostility they have faced, with the Archbishop of Canterbury acknowledging that the religious body was still “very divided” on the subject.

“The occasions on which you have received a hostile and homophobic response in our churches are shameful and for this we repent.” “An apology only goes so far when so many LGBTQ+ Christians have faced hostility and discrimination for who they are,” the spokesperson told Reuters via e-mail.The most high-profile support from a religious leader for same-sex couples to get married in churches has come from the Bishop of Oxford, Steven Croft, who apologized in November for having been slow to change his views.

 

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