Bless me Father for they won't

Before the act was passed, the Church of England was banned from performing same-sex marriages despite a significant majority wishing to perform them. They shouldn't have been banned from performing them; individual churches should have been given the choice to perform them or not but I will rant about this some other time. However, despite same-sex marriage becoming legal, the Church of England have recently announced that they will not even bless the married couple, allow priests to enter same-sex marriages or allow anyone in a same-sex marriage to be ordained.

This saddens me as this means that, should I fall in love with a woman and marry her, I can't marry her in a church nor have my marriage blessed. What kind of message does this give to LGBT Christians in England? I consider myself very fortunate; I have easily reconciled my faith to my sexuality. I love God and He loves me. However, there are too many LGBT Christians who don't have this personal reassurance and this new revelation will not help them. Those already struggling with their sexuality who may turn to the God and the Church for help cannot get an answer from one and have been given a painful answer from the other. The Church of England says often enough that they wish to help the LGBT community but they are not showing it through their actions. How can they say "we are here to help LGBT Christians in their search for God" at the same time as saying "we will not bless this same-sex marriage because we believe it to be wrong" and think they are doing good?

Furthermore, they allow straight priests to marry the opposite sex and anyone in a Heterosexual marriage to be ordained but they do not allow priests to enter a same-sex marriage or allow anyone already in one to be ordained. This is pure discrimination hidden behind religious freedom. Yes, religious freedom is a good thing but it is not an excuse to discriminate based on sexuality. In the Bible, we are told to love one another for we are all Gods children. He created us and He makes no mistakes. So how can the Church of England make the LGBT community feel like a mistake? Were we not born this way? Did God not create us in this way? They like to make us think that we are going against God by loving others of the same sex. But it is they who are going against God by daring to say that He made a mistake when creating us. They call us sinners but they are the biggest sinners of all.