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King Henry VIII was a King of England, so powerful and debaucherous that he could use the Crown to influence the Will of God. He had such clout that he could even annul the sacrament of marriage. Divorce is a pathway to many executions, which some would consider to be…immoral.
Bold move from a church founded on making up new rules about marriage. >

Bold move from a church rapidly losing followers. >

I always assumed that the big churches are still against gay marriage.
Isn’t the Vatican still not cool with it? >

Kind of a mixed bag. Pope Francis supports civil marriage for gay couples, or at least he did in 2010. Being gay is not a sin, but homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered”
So the Catholic Church currently accepts same-sex civil unions, but does not accept same sex marriages as the Sacrament of Marriage is between a man and a women, as per God’s design.
I am not a catholic, and have my own opinions on the matter (namely that the biblical support is thin, the Bible is fallible, and there’s much larger sins in the world that the church has neglected to address) but there you have it.
At least until the next pope. I can’t see someone more liberal taking the position.
I just hope that our great grandchildren will read about this in history books and think we were stupid. People are people, let them like who they like. >

Yeah, not surprised >

The fact he didn’t excommunicate all the pedophile priests kinda proves he’s worthless overall and cut from the same sacramental cloth as all the rest. >

Let’s all take a second to remember that the CoE was started so a sloppy fuck could get divorced bc the pope wouldn’t let him >


sloppy fuck 

That’s one way to describe King Henry VIII >

“Gout ridden bag of philandering shit” seemed a little on the nose >

I hate what he did to my man Sir Thomas More. >

The More You Know… >

Divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, beheaded, survived. Henry the eighth had six wives. >

Ah yes, the church of “our king wanted a new wife but the old church wouldn’t let him keep killing & divorcing his old ones so we just made a new church that would let him” is definitely the moral authority I’m matters of marriage >

Does it even matter what the Church of England says? They have no legal power. >

Don't some bishops sit in the House of Lords? >

25 out of 780 >

Woah.  Yeah that sounds like power... >

Unlimited, possibly? >

I have learned a dark truth. I have learned that the Archbishop of Canterbury is a Sith Lord. >

Are we blind? Deploy the alter boys! >

Have you ever heard the tragedy of King Henry “the eighth”? I thought not, it is a Protestant tale.