No it's a good thing. It's another step towards gay marriage in the UK.

Don't have a problem with that. If you are gay, you shouldn't care about such discriminatory organization as Church anyway.

Just recognize gay marriage constitutionally. Civil Partnerships are cool, but not same as marriage, so change that plz.

In that case...

amen to all of this

Exactly. They just "protect" the church from being forced to perform same sex marriages, while allowing them to be performed in registry offices. Because this was the main obstacle: if Gay Marriage is recognized, then the Church would have to perform them by law. But now, if it's "illegal", then the Church wouldn't object the Gay Marriage as hard (or won't object it at all).

Same-sex marriage is coming, it's just that some religious institutions are opting out. It's a compromise to get gay marriage legalised.

Gays will still be able to get married, just not in CoE.

Why would any gays want to get married in a church anyway?

I think this is reasonable, the Church have their laws and values which are important to them!...If same-sex marrige is to be legalised but we'd have to marry outsidr the church, I'd be all fine with that!

I get why they're doing it, but I hate that we have to respect prejudice just because its religion in our society.

I mean, if a Church said it was against their beliefs to let a black person get married in their church, would y'all be okay with that ban?

I don't agree, some churches and denominations are open and a accepting of gay marriage so banning it as a whole is

But it is what it is.

Let the church do what they want. The Government has no right to interfere with the church and vise versa.

It's only the church so the good sisters there don't have to worry about what they think.

I agree with this. But I guess for now, we should let them be.

It sucks that it has to come to that, but it's a good sign for the coming marriage equality for the UK.