I’m not sure this would be such a splendid idea.
In his blog post – a sort of manifesto for curing the church’s homophobia – he suggests that a royal same-sex wedding “might sort things out remarkably easily”, though he caveats this with the suggestion that such a scenario could take a quarter of a century to play out.
The barons were less than impressed with Piers Gaveston. Indeed, they had him put to death, so that old curing homophobia thing worked out well…
I’ve always felt that there are no good reasons to be against gay marriage. There is of course religion and good old fashioned bigotry but they can hardly qualify as good reasons. I believe that civil partnerships were brought in to deal with some really terrible injustices. The example that I remember was of a gay guy whose partner died young and had to sell his house because his partner’s homophobic family were entitled to half of his estate. If some gay couples want to go one step further and get married I really don’t see what the problem is. I did find it bizarre that when a straight couple wanted to enter into a civil partnership instead of getting married they weren’t allowed to because they weren’t gay.
Regarding the CofE, if they don’t want to recognise gay marriage, who cares? Non religious weddings are freely available and, by availing themselves of that service, gay couples would be assisting the CofE further down the road to irrelevance. As for gay Anglicans, why would you want to belong to an organisation that hates you while desperately pretending not to?
and what is bigotry but being called names by people who think you wont answer back.
All the big ideologies are not tolerant – assorted religions eg Islam , communism, law and order and cat breeders