Some scholars, faced with the apparent conflict between the Church of England's teaching on marriage and the idea of equal marriage embraced by the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013, have focused on the implications of that Act for the constitutional relationship between Church, State and nation. More frequently, noting the position of the Church of England under that Act, academics have critiqued the legislation as an exercise in balancing competing human rights. This article by contrast, leaving behind a tendency to treat religion as a monolithic ‘other’, and leaving behind the neat binaries of rights-based analyses, interrogates the internal agonies of the Church of England as it has striven to negotiate an institutional response to the secular legalisation of same-sex marriage. It explores the struggles of the Church to do so in a manner which holds in balance a wide array of doctrinal positions and the demands of mission, pastoral care and the continued apostolic identity of the Church of England.

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英格兰教会与同性婚姻：超越基于权利的分析

一些学者面对英格兰教会的婚姻教义与 2013 年婚姻（同性伴侣）法案所包含的平等婚姻理念之间的明显冲突，他们专注于该法案对教会与国家之间的宪法关系的影响和民族。更常见的是，注意到英格兰教会在该法案下的立场，学者们批评该立法是一种平衡相互竞争的人权的做法。相比之下，这篇文章摒弃了将宗教视为一个整体的“他者”的倾向，也摒弃了基于权利的分析的简洁二元论，探讨了英国国教在努力协商一项制度性回应时的内部痛苦。同性婚姻的世俗合法化。