The Church in Wales has been urged to rethink its blessings of same-sex couples. During a meeting of the church’s Governing Body, 27 of the 143 members raised their opinion without debating each other. In 2021, the denomination introduced a five-year trial of blessing couples in a same-sex marriage or civil partnership. When the liturgy expires next September, the Church in Wales can choose to abolish the current practice, make it permanent, or expand it to introduce same-sex weddings. Revd James Griffiths of Llandaff asked at “what cost” the Church in Wales is willing to push same-sex blessings, saying: “Every denomination that has done it has seen decline: 35 per cent in the US Episcopal Church; 29 in Canada, and 40 in the Scottish Episcopal Church.”He added: “No growing Church has accepted same-sex marriage.”Lesbian ArchbishopLast month, a woman in a same-sex civil partnership was appointed as the Archbishop of Wales.