Jayne Ozanne, director of the Ozanne Foundation, has slammed the horrific impact of Church of England teaching on LGBT+ people of faith, and called for “urgent” safeguards to protect them.
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In the light of this understanding the Church of England teaches that “sexual intercourse, as an expression of faithful intimacy, properly belongs within marriage exclusively" (Marriage: a teaching document of the House of Bishops, 1999). Sexual relationships outside heterosexual marriage are regarded as falling short of God’s purposes for human beings.