The Barnabas Fund has written:
The Church of England’s General Synod has just passed a motion calling on the UK government to ban what they term “conversion therapy”.
By this, they do not mean the sort of horrific medical treatments such as “chemical castration” that were sometimes forced on gay people half a century ago. Rather, what the General Synod voted to ask the government to ban was “prayer ministry”, i.e. praying for people who experience unwanted same-sex attraction to be set free from that. In other words, what the General Synod asked the government to ban was a particular form of prayer.
It is sad that the Church of England has done this.
The sadness is twofold. Firstly, the General Synod has called for the State to exercise control over the content of prayers to the Lord Jesus Christ. In doing so, the Anglican Church has declared its belief that the UK government is a higher authority than King Jesus. It also exposes the church's disbelief in liberty of conscience and religious faith. The Anglican Church would rapidly move back to the days of state control of religion--that is, to the same kind of tyranny over conscience that held sway before the Toleration Act of 1689.
The second point of sadness is this: the General Synod, by this benighted action, would remove a means of grace from penitents seeking to overcome the sin of homosexuality. In this case at least the Anglican Church has become the enemy of converted and repentant homosexuals, showering them with a thousand treacherous kisses. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend; profuse are the kisses of an enemy." Proverbs 27:6
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