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Gay marriage first for chaplain in defiance of C of E
Canon Jeremy Pemberton risks disciplinary action from
Church of England after marrying Laurence Cunnington
A Church of England chaplain has become the first clergyman to enter a gay
marriage, saying afterwards that it had been "a wonderful day".
Canon Jeremy Pemberton, a hospital chaplain, who married Laurence Cunnington in
front of friends and family at a hotel on Saturday could face disciplinary
action from the church.
Its House of Bishops' guidance issued in February explicitly bars such unions
for clergy on the grounds they undermine traditional teaching that marriage can
only be between a man and a woman. It also bars them from conducting gay
marriages and from blessing them in church.
But Pemberton, 58, told the Mail on Sunday : "I love this man and I want to be
married to him, That's what I want. It is the same as anyone who wants to get
married."
The archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, last week suggested that Christians
in Africa could be killed if the church accepted gay marriage. He and the
archbishop of York, John Sentamu, had warned in a pastoral letter accompanying
the bishops' guidance: "The introduction of same-sex marriage in our country is
a new reality and has consequences for the life and discipline of the Church of
England."
The first same-sex marriages in England and Wales, pushed through by David
Cameron in the face of opposition within his own party, took place last month.
Scotland is due to follow suit later this year.
In tweets after the ceremony, Pemberton, a former parish priest and a divorced
father-of-five, said: "Thank you to all well-wishers. Nay-Sayers: we can talk
another time maybe? Signing off for now – my husband gets my time", as well as
posting a picture of the couple leaving for their honeymoon.
In December 2012, he was one of dozens of clergy who signed a letter to the
Daily Telegraph warning that if the church refused to permit gay weddings in its
own churches they would advise members of their congregations to marry
elsewhere.
Pemberton said he had told the bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Rev Christopher Lowson,
of his intention to marry Cunnington, 51.
The bishop said: "I am aware that a member of the clergy who works in the
diocese of Lincoln has married a partner of the same sex.
"The priest concerned wrote to me in advance to explain his intention and we had
a subsequent meeting in which I explained the guidelines of the House of
Bishops."
He added: "The Church of England is shortly to enter a process of facilitated
discussions about its response to same-sex marriage. I am committed to entering
that process in a spirit of honesty and integrity, seeking to discern the spirit
of God at work in the church as we seek to understand the nature of marriage in
the future."