JKR and the Church of Scotland (Was Homosexuality in HP Series)

[Geoff Bannister]

No: HPFGUIDX 153906

--- In HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com, "Isobel Stark" <issy at ...> wrote:
>
> Leslie41:
> > > And the fact that she's a member of the Church of Scotland (as
> > > opposed to the Catholic Church or Southern Baptist, for example)
> > > actually means she's a member of a church that is quite open
> > > minded when it comes to homosexuals and homosexual behavior, and
> > > even homosexual marriages and clergy.

Isobel:
> Somebody else in this thread stated that JKR was an Anglican.  The
> Church of Scotland is not Anglican, it is a Presbyterian church and
> quite separate in its theology from the Church of England.  Both are
> the official, established churches in their own country but they are
> not the same church.  The Church of Scotland is not part of the
> Anglician communion.  The Anglican/Epsicopalian church in Scotland is
> the Scottish Episcopal Church.

Geoff:
Just to clarify this a little. 

I believe that JKR did worship as an Anglican. On the following URL:

www.home.freeuk.net/webbuk2/harrypotter.htm

there is some biographical detail about her.

She was born in Chipping Sodbury in Gloucestershire, about 15 
miles north-east of Bristol and lived from the age of 9 at Tutshill 
which is on the west bank of the Severn a couple of miles north of 
Chepstow. The site includes a picture of the Anglican church at 
Tutshill which implies that JKR had connections with it.

Her connections with the C of S date from her living in Edinburgh. 
I'm not quite sure what the position is regarding "membership" of  
the C of E or the C of S but, in the Baptist church, of which I am 
currently a member, you do not have to be a member to come to 
services. If you are not, you are excluded from church meetings 
and hence from a say in the working and planning of the church.

I think the C of E position used to be that you were welcomed at 
Communion if you had been baptised - whether as a child or an 
adult - but there wasn't a formal membership list. Perhaps someone 
can confirm or correct me on that,

Since I was baptised as a baby and also as an adult, I'm OK either way.
:-)