Gay marriage trend may collapse like communism, claims Anglican Church [SydneyMorningHerald]

October 13 2016

Gay marriage trend may collapse like communism, claims Anglican Church in leaked document

Latika Bourke

The Anglican Church has likened support for legalising same-sex marriage to communism, and claimed its negative social "costs" will match those seen after the introduction of the 1975 no-fault divorce laws that it says created "widespread adultery and divorce."

The arguments are put forward in draft booklet that suggests ways churchgoers can put forward winning arguments against same-sex marriage and was distributed to the church's nearly 1000 Synod members on Tuesday.

It was subsequently passed on to Fairfax Media by sources concerned about the influence of the conservative Sydney diocese on the church. The document was issued by the senior Sydney Bishop Michael Stead, the chairman of the Archbishop's Plebiscite taskforce on gay marriage, who described same-sex marriage as "a long way from the good picture of marriage given to us by Jesus and the Bible."

Early on Wednesday the Sydney Synod released the document, citing polling saying only 8 per cent of Anglicans supported gay marriages in churches.


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