The Anglican Church will be hit next week by a new row over its “obsession” with homosexuality.
Two of the Church’s most respected figures are to deepen the growing rift over gays, which already threatens the biggest split in the Anglican movement since it began four centuries ago.
In attacks that will be seen as aimed at the leadership of the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, both his predecessor, Lord Carey, and the South African archbishop Desmond Tutu take conflicting views on the issue.
[blockquote]”I respect homosexuals, their right to exist, their right to set up homes and have same-sex relationships, but it’s quite a different thing to say that those things should be normative within the Christian community,” he says. “The Christian community has every right to say that certain behaviour is right, certain behaviour is wrong, and to hold to that without being called homophobic.”[/blockquote]
And, frankly, this is what ++Tutu and the rest of the politico-religious Left is fighting tooth and nail against. They want it normative, both in secular society and sectarian organizations. Britain’s SOR’s are testament to that.
certainly ++Tutu can do better than play the “homophobia” card? Or maybe he can’t….
Tutu can’t play the fatherly peace keeper in his opening statement where he criticizes the whole church for being obsessed about sex and then in the next breath blatantly take sides. Desmond you can’t have it both ways! http://www.pwcweb.com/ecw
What if in truth the Anglican Communion is not obsessed with homosexuality? In that case, it seems to me, it would be necessary for Archbishop Tutu and the rest of the reappraisers to invent such an obsession. Their whole argument and position depends on it.
Total Straw Man logic going on here.
This is sad. For me, +Desmond Tutu is a fallen hero.
[blockquote]Canon Giles Goddard, chairman of Inclusive Church – a pro-gay group – said Lord Carey’s comments were “seriously unhelpful” to his successor’s attempts to prevent the Church from splitting.[/blockquote]
OK, we give up and give in. We need a homosexual ABC. We wrote the Bible, we can rewrite it. There now, isn’t unity wonderful?
Why is it that the homosexualists demand that we forego 2000 years of tradition as well as toss out scriptural authority for the sake of the most precious unity? How about we compromise by saying that active homosexuals are not candidates for clergy, blessing of SSU’s are inappropriate, but that homosexuals are welcome to come to church?
Sorry, I am not going to hold on to the truth “more lightly.”
“Wherever the corpse is, there the vultures will gather.” Matthew 24:28