According to homosexual MP, Chris Bryant.<\/p>\n
From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n Anyone who has ever heard Jeffrey John preach, read his poetry or met him knows that he is a man of immense spirituality who should have been made a bishop years ago.<\/p>\n Sadly, the Church of England has got its cassocks so firmly in a twist that it seems completely incapable of coming to the same conclusion, purely and simply because he’s gay.<\/p>\n [\u2026.]<\/p>\n But in a classic twist of English logic, the Church still maintains that it’s fine and dandy to be gay just so long as you don’t do anything about it.<\/p>\n Celibacy is the rule \u2013 especially for the clergy \u2013 as same-sex sex is definitely off-limits.<\/p>\n There are two problems with this. For a start it is a great big lie. It ludicrously pretends that Jeffrey would be the first-ever gay bishop.<\/p>\n But I remember terribly anguished and frighteningly closeted gay bishops in my theological college back in the Eighties. One became quite a close friend, and his relief the moment he retired and took up residence with his lover of 20 years was a sad joy to behold.<\/p>\n And 10 years ago a bishop asked me, in all seriousness, whether it was wrong that he had just decided that he had to appoint a straight man to a particular inner-city parish because literally every other vicar in the area was gay.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There are that many<\/em> homosexual priests and bishops in the Church of England?<\/p>\n If it\u2019s twisted logic to expect a homosexual priest to be celibate because his condition is a part of his nature, it must also be twisted logic to expect a sinner not to sin because his condition is a part of his nature. Welcome to the Church of Antinomianism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" According to homosexual MP, Chris Bryant. From here: Anyone who has ever heard Jeffrey John preach, read his poetry or met him knows that he is a man of immense spirituality who should have been made a bishop years ago. … Continue reading