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Ms Groarke resigned from the Evangelical Group of the General Synod last year after it required its members to accept the traditional view of marriage in its basis of faith, and she has co-founded the more doctrinally open Evangelical Forum.
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Is it possible to hold a positive view of same-sex relationships while being a biblically rooted evangelical? These twelve senior Anglican Evangelicals believe so.
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