Leaders of two of Australia’s largest church networks, the Uniting Church and the Anglican Church, are spreading the message “don’t get upset about same-sex marriages” to orthodox Christians.
Lulu-OHa’angana Senituli, the minister at Sunnybank Uniting Church, resigned after several complaints were raised against him after the congregation joined a conservative group within the UCA, the Assembly of Confessing Congregations.
For both the Uniting and Anglican churches, the basic issue is similar.
The church structure is struggling to manage progressives who support the marriage or blessings of LGBTQI+ persons in church, and those who take the historic Christian view that we should not.