Marriage and Scripture - the fundamentals: A parish clergyman writes

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[Anglican Mainstream] 3 Oct 2007--The issue of sexuality dominates the way Western Christians, influenced by their culture, interpret scripture. It must not be allowed to fracture our communion. Children and their potential, rather than the sexual appetites of adults, must be given priority in the Christian church. Created in the image of God, in their vulnerability as with the poor and weak, their potential can so easily be destroyed by adults/ the rich and strong. Created under God by their parents, children nurture best within the love of natural parents. The lie, perpetrated ever more in the west, must be resisted - that we are either born gay or hetero-sexual. For most human beings an emerging ambivalent sexual urge needs guiding, as with most other human urges. Any stable society should encourage that urge towards hetero-sexual and monogamous marriage, for the sake of stable nurturing of the next generation of children. Within the marriage liturgies of the Anglican Communion, please can we revert to Archbishop Cranmer’s statement, that marriage is first for the sake of children?