Changing Attitude Ireland was delighted to welcome Jayne Ozanne to speak to us on Saturday 25 March 2023, before we held our AGM. Following the AGM, CAI are delighted to announce that Mark Bowyer has been elected chair in succession to Scott Golden, who has stepped down after many years of service on the committee. Mark has been on the committee for a number of years and is an openly gay man, a Diocesan Lay Minister in the Church of Ireland and who is committed to the work of CAI. Speaking after his election as chair, Mark Bowyer said, “it is important now, more than ever, that we continue to be the voice of those who feel marginalised in their own church and communities because of their sexuality. We risk losing a generation of LGBT+ people who are turned away from the Church because of this.” [Continue Reading]
AGM Report – Equal Marriage in Scottish Church
How did the Scottish Episcopal Church do it? This was the question in the minds of those who gathered for the Changing Attitude Ireland AGM lecture by the Provost of St Mary’s Cathedral Glasgow, the Very Revd Kelvin Holdsworth, in Dublin on Saturday 28th October. As a key member of Changing Attitude Scotland, Holdsworth has been at the heart of the campaign to permit its clergy to solemnise marriages in church regardless of the couple’s gender. [Continue Reading]
2017 Guest Lecture “Full LGBT acceptance in the Church? – Charting the way forward in Ireland and Scotland” & Annual General Meeting
Our Guest Lecture & AGM for 2017 takes place on Saturday 28 October @ 2 PM. We are delighted to announce that our guest lecturer will be the renowned provost of St Mary’s Cathedral Glasgow, the Very Revd. Kelvin Holdsworth, who will speak to us on the topic “Full LGBT acceptance in the Church? – Charting the way forward in Ireland and Scotland”. St Mary’s is the cathedral church for the United Diocese of Glasgow and Galloway in the Scottish Episcopal Church, which is in full membership of the worldwide Anglican Communion. [Continue Reading]
AGM 2016/2017 Report
The Changing Attitude Ireland AGM took place on Saturday November 19th in the hall of St George’s Church, Belfast, after a service of Holy Communion celebrated by the Revd Brian Stewart, rector of St George’s. Chairman of Changing Attitude Ireland, Mr Scott Golden of Delgany, Co Wicklow, gave the AGM address titled Looking back. Moving […]