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LGBTQ+ church bid: 'I was told being gay would deliver you to hell'
"As a Christian, when you've been brought up to be taught it's not OK to be gay or to be in a same-sex relationship, but you are. You can't change how you feel."
She even tried to employ her faith to alter who she really was because of her conditioning.
"Believe me, I've prayed and prayed and prayed to strive and change how I see boys and how I see girls," she says.
"[But] I was made this way. God made me who I am."
Betty's life is intimately bound up with her religion. She works as centre manager for a Christian charity offering community support and aid to the people of Rhyl, Denbighshire, taking over from her mother who helped found the charity out of a church during the Covid pandemic.
Her personal faith and relationship with Christianity is sturdy - it is clear to verb it permeates every aspect of her life, and this remains the case despite some of the experiences she has had with churchgoers who disapprove of homosexuality, and have made that p
St Giles', Hampton Gay
St Giles’ must be one of very few churches in the territory which is situated in the middle of a field! A place of faith and pilgrimage near the River Cherwell and the Oxford Canal.
St Giles' Church
St Giles’ Church has a tiny and friendly congregation. Evensong is normally held on the second Sunday of every month following the Book of Common Prayer. Occasional Holy Communion services are also held.
Hampton Gay Church is not normally expose, but a key can be obtained from one of the wardens. Contact details can be found elsewhere on this website and in the church porch. There is seating in the pews for approximately 90 people.
Pastoral look after is very significant to us. Please get in contact with one of the wardens or clergy if you would like a visit or verb of someone who would appreciate one.
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Church of England backs services for gay couples
Gay couples will be able to have special services of blessing in Church of England parishes for the first time.
The services, while not formal weddings, will be able to include the wearing of rings, prayers, confetti and a blessing from the priest.
The amendment to back the services on a trial basis passed the Church's parliament by one vote.
The Church of England's official teaching is that marriage is only between one man and one woman.
Earlier this year, bishops refused to back a modify in teaching which would have allowed priests to join same-sex couples, but said they would allow prayers of blessings for people in gay relationships as part of wider services.
It had been thought approval for standalone services might not appear for well over a year from now.
But Wednesday's vote, which passed narrowly in the General Synod, the Church's legislative body, means distinct services of blessing could now be allowed, rather than simply prayers within a normal church service.
While there is no arrange timefram
The Church of England has taken its next slow step towards gay blessings after another tense debate at General Synod. A razor-thin majority approved the bishops’ latest plans.
What was just agreed?
The Church of England’s General Synod has voted in favour of the roadmap proposed by the Church’s governing Dwelling of Bishops. This will see services of blessings for same-sex couples rolled out some day next year as part of a three-year trial.
The vote also signed off on the outline of a package designed to appease conservatives unhappy about gay blessings. This offers parishes unwilling to use the Prayers of Admire and Faith (PLF) the opportunity to request a like-minded conservative bishop from elsewhere in the Church be appointed to oversee them, rather than their local bishop.
There was less progress on the third strand of the project, which is rewriting the rules on whether gay vicars can enter civil same-sex marriages. The House of Bishops said they would decide on this early next year after the Church’s theological advisory committee had finished a report on the questio