The internal debates in the Church of England over whether gay marriage should be embraced continues to intensify, with opposing letters seeking to advise The Episcopal Church in the U.S. over whether it should use the phrase “gift of children” instead of “procreation” in its marriage service.
Although CofE Secretary General William Nye pushed back against TEC’s plans to change the wording to its marriage services, as many as 300 liberal-minded members recently published an open letter backing the plan.
Nye’s letter is dated October 2017 but only emerged to the public earlier in April, and is included in a series of documents posted online by TEC’s General Convention website.
It acknowledges that there is “division of opinion” regarding gay relationships in the Anglican communion, but points out that the CofE’s official position is that “sexual activity outside marriage between a man and a woman is contrary to God’s will.”
Nye goes on to criticize TEC for seeking to use the phrase “the gift of children” in its marriage services, arguing that it’s deliberately ambiguous and erases the “procreative function of…
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