{"id":6616,"date":"2009-12-07T18:41:52","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T23:41:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=6616"},"modified":"2009-12-07T18:41:52","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T23:41:52","slug":"rowan-williams-betrayal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-betrayal\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowan Williams: betrayal!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/comment\/faith\/article6948061.ece\" target=\"_blank\">meandering ambivalence<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A close friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury who was tutored by him at theological college said he felt betrayed by Dr Rowan Williams\u2019 new-found opposition to gays and lesbians in the ordained ministry of the Anglican Communion.<\/p>\n<p>The Rev Colin Coward, 64, who lives with a gay man and who preaches regularly at his local church in the Salisbury diocese, said that Dr Williams was aware of his sexuality and never once challenged it.<\/p>\n<p>He said that about a quarter of the 50-plus students at his Cambridge theological college were gay and this was accepted by the Church of that era. Dr Williams was a tutor at Westcott House, a liberal college, from 1977 to 1980.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For some mysterious reason, the Anglican Church attracts a disproportionate number of homosexuals into its leadership ranks. Once they arrive, understandably, they can\u2019t see why their presence is resisted; even though I disagree with the promoting of practising homosexual leadership in the church, I have some sympathy with them because Anglican liberals have \u201cincluded\u201d, \u201ctolerated\u201d and befriended homosexuals into an illusory sense of leadership entitlement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rowan&#8217;s meandering ambivalence: A close friend of the Archbishop of Canterbury who was tutored by him at theological college said he felt betrayed by Dr Rowan Williams\u2019 new-found opposition to gays and lesbians in the ordained ministry of the Anglican &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/rowan-williams-betrayal\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,177],"tags":[2030,2167],"class_list":["post-6616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-homosexuality","tag-anglican","tag-homosexuality"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}