Nearly two-thirds of priests in the Church of England said Great Britain “can no longer be described as a Christian country,” a landmark survey by The Times of London revealed Tuesday.
About 64.2% of clerics said Britain could only be called a Christian nation “historically, not currently,” while 24.2% said the Christian adjective still applies.
The newspaper said the majority of those same priests want the church to stop opposing premarital and gay sex and to start conducting same-sex weddings, which currently is blocked in favor of “blessing” ceremonies for gay couples. The priests said they feared that efforts to stop a decline in church attendance would not work, with the state-sponsored church facing “extinction.”
That mandate means it has to simultaneously be challenged by popular culture and challenge that culture, Bishop Baines said, speaking for the Church of England in a statement released as The Times of London published its results.
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