Gay wedding canon Jeremy Pemberton has NHS job offer withdra

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-no ... e-28629406

Gay wedding canon Jeremy Pemberton has NHS job offer withdrawn

The first gay British clergyman to marry a same-sex partner has had an NHS job offer withdrawn because a bishop will not give the licence needed.

Jeremy Pemberton currently works as an NHS chaplain in Lincolnshire, but has been blocked from taking a new job with the NHS in Nottinghamshire.

He was also told he could not work as a priest in Nottinghamshire after he married his partner in April.

His case was raised in the House of Lords earlier this week.

Mr Pemberton told BBC Radio Nottingham he was "very, very disappointed" not to be able to take up the post of chaplaincy and bereavement manager for Sherwood Forest Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust after the offer was withdrawn on Friday.

"I've now been treated, I think, in an unfair and rather harsh way in Southwell and Nottingham, whereas I'm now going to carry on doing the job I have been doing in Lincolnshire where I have a licence," he said.

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Fuck im.

I hope the NHS don't pay the salaries of chaplains.

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Fuck im.

I hope the NHS don't pay the salaries of chaplains.

With terminal conditions, very easy to pick up, these are the ones at the hard emotional end of things - grief counselling and stuff, not necessaries pushing religion at all, clearly a openly gay will be more liberal in their religious stance etc...important job that.

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Fuck im.

I hope the NHS don't pay the salaries of chaplains.

With terminal conditions, very easy to pick up, these are the ones at the hard emotional end of things - grief counselling and stuff, not necessaries pushing religion at all, clearly a openly gay will be more liberal in their religious stance etc...important job that.

Should still be paid for by the church. If I want grief counselling, I don't want it from someone who believes in gods and devils and angels and demons and souls burning in hell for all eternity.

If the state pays for something, it should be totally non-religious.
I know that's not how it is, but it's how it should be.

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Fuck im.

I hope the NHS don't pay the salaries of chaplains.

With terminal conditions, very easy to pick up, these are the ones at the hard emotional end of things - grief counselling and stuff, not necessaries pushing religion at all, clearly a openly gay will be more liberal in their religious stance etc...important job that.

Should still be paid for by the church. If I want grief counselling, I don't want it from someone who believes in gods and devils and angels and demons and souls burning in hell for all eternity.

If the state pays for something, it should be totally non-religious.
I know that's not how it is, but it's how it should be.

Trouble with atheists, no imagination. I'm a nihilist so I love a bit of it, myself. The chance to ask forgiveness for my sins real and imagined at the end of life. Wow, they'd be digging up countless patios after I'm gone.

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Maybe they should have let him start, just so they could have the headline

'' Canon fired in gay wedding battle ''.

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