{"id":21323,"date":"2014-04-18T21:28:43","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T01:28:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=21323"},"modified":"2014-04-27T07:10:51","modified_gmt":"2014-04-27T11:10:51","slug":"justin-welby-vacillates-about-gay-marriage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/justin-welby-vacillates-about-gay-marriage\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Welby vacillates about gay marriage"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWe are struggling with the reality that there are different groups around the place that the Church can do \u2014 or has done \u2014 great harm to,\u201d the Archbishop says. \u201cYou look at some of the gay, lesbian, LGBT groups in this country and around the world \u2014 Africa included, actually \u2014 and their experience of abuse, hatred, all kinds of things.\u201d But he says: \u201cWe must both respond to what we\u2019ve done in the past and listen to those voices extremely carefully. Listen with love and compassion and sorrow. And do what is possible to be done, which is not always a huge amount.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Archbishop adds: \u201cAt the same time there are other groups in many parts of the world who are the victims of oppression and poverty, who we also have to listen to, and who find that issue an almost impossible one to deal with.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you hold those two things [in balance] and do what is right and just by all? And not only by one group that you prefer and that is easier to deal with? That\u2019s not acceptable.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The most senior bishop \u2013 the first among equals<\/em> – in the Anglican Communion can\u2019t make up his mind whether or not the church has, for the last 2000 years, mistakenly taught that homosexual activity is wrong.<\/p>\n

The problem appears to be that, rather than do what the church has done for centuries \u2013 take its moral cues straightforwardly from the Bible – Welby is \u201cstruggling\u201d with the fact that different groups of people have different opinions on the issue. This astonishing development has completely flummoxed him.<\/p>\n

Clearly what is needed is a series of facilitated conversions on the next problem that will face the first among equals<\/em>: if, for fear of upsetting one side or other, the Archbishop of Canterbury is unwilling to take a side on the issue that is tearing his church apart, why bother to say anything about anything; no-one is going to listen – not even if it’s facilitated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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