article_snippet.sent: a letter to The Guardian 20 signatories included Christina Baron, lay member of the General Synod, Barry Sheerman, Huddersfield Labour MP since 1979, and Theo Hobson, a theologian and religious commentator.
article_snippet.sent: a letter to The Guardian’s 20 signatories included Christina Baron, lay member of the General Synod, Barry Sheerman (left)
article_snippet.sent: Huddersfield Labour MP since 1979, and Theo Hobson, a theologian and religious commentator (right) Simon Barrow and Jonathan Bartley of the Christian think-tank
article_snippet.sent: Ekklesia also signed it, as did Reverend Richard Kirker, founding member of the Lesbian and Gay Christian Movement.
article_snippet.sent: Also on the list were Reverend Una Kroll, a women’s equality campaigner, former teachers’ union president John Swallow and Oxford professor Keith Ward.
article_snippet.sent: ’ Simon Calvert, of the Christian Institute, added: