My friend was a gay C of E minister - she was betrayed by the church's hypocrisy | Helen Berry

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : These centred on the idea of being "gay" as not an identity but a temptation (with the logic that same-sex attraction is like any other temptation that must be resisted, and possibly even "cured").
44% : But a reference to her "partnership" of two decades during the service reminded me of how little has changed since the 1980s and 90s, when same-sex partners were forced to lie or pretend.
42% : Lay people may now enter into same-sex marriages (although they may not do so in an Anglican church), but Anglican clergy are still not able to do so.
38% : It also forced me to remember a time when those in same-sex relationships could not legally make decisions for one another if we were sick or dying.

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