Life is so unfair.
From here:
An Anglican rector from London has been banned from working as a priest for two years after he was found guilty of sexually propositioning two gay servicemen.
Father David Gilmore, of St Anne’s Church, Soho, in the West End of London, has been removed from office and prohibited from exercising ministry as a priest for two years following a hearing of a church disciplinary tribunal, the Diocese of London said.
The rector was accused of conduct “inappropriate for a clergyman” including making indecent sexual propositions to two men, named only as A and B, who were staying overnight at his rectory in December 2009.
The tribunal was told the rector had asked the men, who were in London for a conference of lesbian and gay members of the Armed Forces, to sleep with him in his bed.
Mr Gilmore was also found to have chosen to enter A’s bedroom naked when it was “unnecessary” for him to do so, and when he knew that sexual activity was taking place between the two men. Both men left before breakfast and made written complaints after the incidents, the tribunal was told.
The questions that really demand an answer are:
What necessity could there have been for Rev. Gilmore to enter A’s bedroom naked? Had he lost his jammies?
Why doesn’t Rev. Gilmore get himself a reliable, stable monogamous man that he can marry and wander around naked with ad nauseum? Then he could demand a generous pastoral response from the church. That’s what other Anglican priests do.
Why is the suspension only two years? Is the church giving him that long to find a stable, monogamous, homoerotic paramour who is not a serviceman?
Who could possibly argue that repealing DADT was a good idea? We already have homosexual members of the armed forces corrupting upright Anglican clergymen by tempting them to wander naked into their bedrooms. Repealing DADT could be the end of the Anglican church.
Why did the servicemen complain? Was the sight of Rev. Gilmore naked that shocking?
It could have been.
The doughty Rev. Gilmore is no stranger to fighting for sexual anarchy: he appeared in court to lobby for keeping Soho brothels open:
A RECTOR has come to the rescue of a group of prostitutes who face having their Soho brothel closed.
The Rev David Gilmore, from St Anne’s Anglican Church in Soho, was called to court over the closure of two flats used by prostitutes.
And was successful. He probably didn’t appear in court naked, though.
I know it’s a tired, worn out cliché but I can’t help it: who could make this stuff up?
