Going after the Green Party now, in the belief that our energy system would collapse if we stopped destroying the planet and found more sustainable alternatives? Well, it's a point of view....🤔
Meantime, this disabled person won't be voting Labour in the next election or any other. Or Reform.

And e.g. a toilet. But not a loving faithful married pair of caring, consenting adults. Yep. Because Jesus said, "Come to me, all ye who are in need of a blessed loo", apparently 👀 Wait, no...

It's all absolutely heartbreaking.

Mind boggling attempt at explanation, by a spokesperson, who tried claiming they originally did all of this because some autistic/ADHD people were having to queue longer than other people, as a result of having a fast pass.
Then fix your system. You do not punish disabled/ neurodivergent people.

www.churchofengland.org/about/govern... has a link to the YouTube live feed, from which you may be able to find the recordings of past sessions. Can't guarantee today's timings.

Making clear this is totally my own summary, not any sort of official stance.

My own prayers are that we find peace, love, healing.
That some stop believing that it's some selfish group who just 'want to sin and get it approved'.(!) That was never it.
That we truly listen to genuine, prayerful, Biblical difference of belief.

This has gone on too long, friends, eh?
#Synod

In our fabulous work around neurodiversity for the church, we have so many equally fabulous LGBT+ people. In loving, caring, stable marriage and Civil Partnerships. In sensible, everyday jobs, doing sensible everyday things. Hoping and praying for a day when we can find that good way forward/

We have seen too many take their own lives, or end up in hugely difficult periods of depression as a result, a set of harms which the church has fully acknowledged.
And yet, we continue to debate, and debate, and debate, and debate, and debate. Year after year, decade after decade/

Various people overpromised & underdelivered on this, the last few years.
Which brings us to today's debate in Synod.
Personal stance: Many of my loved and cherished LGBT+ friends have spent decades being treated as third class citizens, by some/

In the same way as we found ways forward for differences over women leaders, and whether divorced people should ever remarry, many hope that we can find a way forward for both sets of people in the #Synod LGBT+ debates.
But, for reasons too long and complex to explain here, we haven't, so far/

There are genuine, prayerful differences in views on whether we should encourage and enable same-sex faithful, loving marriages or Civil Partnerships.
This is true in many main faiths, not just Christianity.
Various efforts are made to work out a way forward for everyone/

I don't think I need to outline what then happened.

Whilst legal clarity is also important, if there is leeway, it is my very strong view that we need to check, where we possibly and appropriately can.

Appreciating a DBS is only a 'snapshot' of one point in time, not proof of safety, of course.

I am mindful of one chap with a long & bracing criminal predatory history who joined a new church & very soon got into a position of minor leadership of a mixed group involving children & young people...but not top level authority. Used that to convince parents he was totally safe as a babysitter...

Continuing prayers from me:
For healing.
For safety.
For some semblance of proper acknowledgement that this wasn't a battle for biblical supremacy between parties of equal strength and standing.
For safeguarding factors to be fully acknowledged, & proper processes to stop future harms.