Auckland vicar Glynn Cardy says the Anglican Church is in danger of becoming a moral dinosaur and is increasingly seen as irrelevant with the passing of the Gay Marriage Bill.
He said that with the passing of same gender marriage law, the state had moved well ahead of the church.
His comments come a week after the Weekend Herald reported that the head of the Presbyterian Church asked its ministers to consider a temporary ban on gay marriages to preserve the church’s “peace and unity” as the same-sex marriage law came into effect.
Cardy recently resigned his position at St Matthew’s in the City, an Anglican church, and has has made an application to become a minister with the Presbyterian
Church. Anglican Church spokesman Lloyd Ashton said he didn’t want to comment because Reverend Cardy “says what he says” and he didn’t want to engage with it.
Ray Coster, moderator of the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand, said: “By upholding the historic Christian understanding of marriage as the loving, faithful union of a man and a woman, we are being faithful to what we understand Christ is calling us to as a church.”
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