{"id":17894,"date":"2012-11-09T20:40:48","date_gmt":"2012-11-10T01:40:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=17894"},"modified":"2012-11-09T20:40:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-10T01:40:48","slug":"justin-welby-intends-to-listen-attentively-to-the-lgbt-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-intends-to-listen-attentively-to-the-lgbt-communities\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby intends to listen attentively to the \u201cLGBT communities\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

A community is either a group of people living near one another or a group of people with the same interests. Since lesbians are interested in women, homosexuals are interested in men, bisexuals are interested in both and transsexuals are confused about who they are interested in, that amounts to four “communities”. He seems to have forgotten that the sexual deviancy alphabet has gone forth and multiplied to include <\/em>at least LGBTQQIP,\u00a0 Queer, Questioning, Intersex, and Pansexual; by this time next year there will undoubtedly be more. Where will he find the time to listen to them all?<\/p>\n

And what about the heterosexual “community”? Will he listen to them? Probably not; no-one listens to them.<\/p>\n

I suspect \u201cLGBT communities\u201d was a circumlocutory way of saying Changing Attitude<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would have been far more interesting, refreshing and radical if he had announced that he wants to listen attentively to same-sex attracted individuals who are attempting \u2013 with little help from the church \u2013 to resist the attraction. Too much to hope for, I suppose.<\/p>\n

From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

On another divisive issue within the faith, he said that there must be \u201cno truck with any form of homophobia, in any part of the church\u201d while seeming to acknowledge the difficulty that view causes foreign adherents.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat the church does here deeply affects the already greatly suffering churches in places I\u2019ve mentioned like Nigeria,\u201d he said. \u201cI support the House of Bishops\u2019 statement in the summer in answer to the government\u2019s consultation on same-sex marriage. But I also know I need to listen very attentively to the LGBT communities, and examine my own thinking carefully and prayerfully.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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