The electronic voting results from this month’s meeting of General Synod are now available online. These contain the names of voting members and how they voted.
Gratitude to these 12 bishops who voted in favour of Helen King’s amendment, effectively endorsing Standalone services for same-sex partners, and full inclusion of clergy in same-sex civil marriages:
Guli Francis-Dehqani,
Libby Lane,
Mike Harrison
Stephen Conway,
Helen-Ann Hartley
Steven Croft
Joanne Grenfell
Christopher Chessun
Anne Hollinghurst
Robert Springett
Karen Gorham
Arun Arora
It will be interesting to see what position will be taken by the future bishops of Oxford, Southwark and (one day or another) Lincoln. My guess is that it will become harder and harder to appoint dyed-in-the-wool ‘progressives’, or ‘conservatives’ and that the bench will coalesce increasingly around a ‘soft middle’.
Gratitude to these 12 bishops who voted in favour of Helen King’s amendment, effectively endorsing Standalone services for same-sex partners, and full inclusion of clergy in same-sex civil marriages:
Guli Francis-Dehqani,
Libby Lane,
Mike Harrison
Stephen Conway,
Helen-Ann Hartley
Steven Croft
Joanne Grenfell
Christopher Chessun
Anne Hollinghurst
Robert Springett
Karen Gorham
Arun Arora
It will be interesting to see what position will be taken by the future bishops of Oxford, Southwark and (one day or another) Lincoln. My guess is that it will become harder and harder to appoint dyed-in-the-wool ‘progressives’, or ‘conservatives’ and that the bench will coalesce increasingly around a ‘soft middle’.