CIVIL PARTNERSHIPS CAMPAIGN

Many thanks to those supporters who have sent details of your own Civil Partnership or of other Church of England couples who have registered their partnership. To date, we know of 46 couples, registered in 15 dioceses. They include 36 ordained gay men, 2 ordained lesbians, 31 lay gay men and 6 lay lesbians.

To show the Church ...

We would like to show the Church how many clergy have had the courage to register their CPs as well as the number of registered lay couples worshipping Sunday by Sunday in parish churches who have made a life-long commitment to one another.

We would like to present a picture to the Church on the first anniversary in December, to show how the House of Bishops’ guidelines are being ignored by partnered LGBT Anglicans, lay and ordained, who respect their own deeply committed, faithful, loving relationships.

We STILL need your help NOW!

• We need all of you who have registered or know of other couples, to send details.

• We need to ensure that we don’t double count couples.

• We need to do this without breaching confidentiality.

We want to include everyone in each diocese, not just CA members, where one of the partners at least is an active church member. This is not intended to be and cannot be a full survey. Your knowledge is likely to be random and anecdotal.

Please email details giving couple’s initials, using M, F or T (male/female/trans) L or O (lay/ordained), B (followed by blessing) to: colin@changingattitude.org or write to 6 Norney Bridge, Mill Road, Marston, Devizes, SN10 5SF.

Telephone 01380 724908
E-mail office@changingattitude.org

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