Same-sex marriage and apology to be debated by Kirk
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The influential theological forum committee investigating the controversial issue will ask the General Assembly to carry out a further study on the matter and report back next year.
It also said the Kirk should apologise individually and corporately for failing to recognise the Christian vocation of gay people.
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Hide AdThe report states: “We recognise that as a Church we have often failed to recognise and protect the identity and Christian vocation of gay people and believe that the Church as a whole should acknowledge its faults, whose identity and Christian vocation it has failed to recognise and protect.”