Episcopal Church Urged to Amend Views on Sex
The Episcopal church should bend to changing attitudes and give its blessing to steady, sexual relationships between homosexuals, as well as unmarried young adults and divorced or widowed people, according to a diocesan report.
The report was prepared by a Newark diocesan task force. It seeks to ignite debate on sexual ethics among leaders of the nation’s 3 million Episcopalians in the hope that they will amend church doctrine to embrace all believers.
Episcopal doctrine approves of sex only between men and women who are married. In 1979, the governing body of the U.S. church rejected a resolution to expand that approval.
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