The Church of England has been accused of failing to uphold Biblical views on sexuality and gender following a string of concerning cases at Church of England schools and an update to its anti-bullying guidance.
The Church’s “Flourishing for All” guidance was updated in April, following the Supreme Court ruling in favour of biological reality determining an individual’s gender.
Christian Concern has said the brand new guidance is just not based on a biblical worldview, but as an alternative on intersectionality and demanding theory.
Under the guidance all persons are assumed to be oppressed or privileged based on their various characteristics and identities.
Christian Concern has described it as “woke” and is critical of the way in which that the policy “defines human flourishing as allowing every child to completely explore and experience whatever their protected characteristic entails, including sexual identities and gender identities which don’t conform with Christian morality”.
It was also noted that under the guidance school chaplains should avoid talking about sexual ethics in absolute terms, and even in the event that they do, they need to make it clear that not all Christians consider such things.
Following the Supreme Court decision, the Church of England’s guidance not refers to high school children as being “transgender”, nonetheless they will still be considered “LGB/GQ”, by which “GQ” means “Gender Questioning”.
Christian Concern lamented the present state of teaching on this subjecting in Church of England schools, pointing to a slew of cases by which parents and staff have been at odds with the leadership and even faced disciplinary motion for attempting to uphold biblical somewhat than “woke” beliefs.
“The incontrovertible fact that it took a secular government (the courts and the Department for Education) to push the Church’s guidance towards a rather more Biblically accurate pastoral approach [on transgenderism], is damning,” the organisation said.
Andrea Williams, CEO of Christian Concern said, “The Church of England’s latest guidance once more shows its failure to uphold biblical morality within the 4,500 schools under its care.”She added that the brand new guidance “promotes a secular, ideologically driven agenda somewhat than affirming real Christian teaching on equality and morality”.”We urge Christian teachers to reject this guidance and to stay faithful to biblical truth, which is what children must hear,” she said.
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