Open Evangelicals wrestle with issue of same sex relationships and CCE

On the Fulcrum forums, the thread on the Covenant for the Church of England shows how Open Evangelicals are wrestling with their own position:

What to do, what to do. We do sometimes end up in conversation with somebody of either persuasion who has been too liberal with his affections - who is at the tail end of a series of abortive affairs which have damaged his ability to love with any degree of gift or selflessness. The advice to a heterosexual person is to give that all up - to seek out a relationship which is multifaceted and not merely sexual, with an emphasis on gift and communication - a relationship which can be 'built' and does not merely require to be 'found'. Notwithstanding my inability - refusal even - to countenance marrying two people of the same gender I could not with any degree of peace as a priest and a christian refuse to offer the same counsel to a homosexual person who found himself in a similar predicament. The advice would be the same. All homosexual relationships are not the same. Some are better than others.

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