“No repentance, but the Lawyers told us we can’t do it – yet”

Posted on October 17, 2025 
Filed under Church of England

“The Church of England has halted its plans to introduce ‘wedding’ services for same-sex couples after the bishops finally accepted long-resisted legal advice that it is not possible to do so without the approval of two-thirds of General Synod.

Plans to allow clergy to enter a same-sex civil marriage have also been scrapped owing to the legal complications, ongoing divisions on the issue and the confusion that bringing in the reform by itself would sow. …

The upshot is that the Church of England will continue, for the time being at least, officially to hold to traditional biblical teaching on marriage – while liberals will continue quietly to flout it and make use of the ‘blessings’ fudge they got in under Welby.”

This Daily Sceptic article has news and commentary.

(Our headline is a very rough summary. Image: The Church of England’s General Synod in February 2023)