Sandi Toksvig has said the Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby has agreed to meet with her after the Church of England opted to rule out permitting same-sex weddings in its churches
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In that letter, she invited Mr Welby for a coffee, which he accepted – and on Saturday Toksvig revealed that the meeting will now happen in the days ahead in the wake of the Church’s decision. Asked if the decision was a “fudge”, he said: “That’s not where I see it, no. I see it as a way of holding together a Church that does not agree on this issue, and takes us to a place where people entering into same-sex marriages are able to come to the Church of England, and those relationships and marriages can be acknowledged and celebrated.
He added that there will be new pastoral guidance to “work out” what the new policy means for clergy, after a number of instances in which gay clergy members have been stripped of their permission to officiate because they have themselves entered into same-sex marriages. “I can’t give you exactly what will be right now,” he said.
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