Newark Backs Same-Sex Blessings: CEN 6.22.07 p 7 June 22, 2007
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The Diocese of Newark will not abide by the Primates’ call for a moratorium on same-sex blessings and will introduce proposed public rites for same-sex blessings at its January 2008 synod.
The introduction of formal rites for same-sex blessings by Newark, along with New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson’s announcement that his clergy were free to bless gay unions will stoke the anger of the Global South coalition of primates, observers note, increasing pressure on Archbishop Rowan Williams to take decisive action against the American church.
The Living Church magazine reports that a diocesan task force chartered by Bishop Mark Beckwith will prepare trial liturgies for consideration by the diocese.
“Bishop Beckwith has already made up his mind that civil unions would be performed,” a task force member said. “The diocese is of course very concerned about what happens in the Church as a whole, but it functions according to the will of convention.”
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