The Church of England was plunged into another row over gay marriage…[recently] when a cleric condemned a new statement by the Archbishop of York against gay marriage as “absolute rubbish”.
The Rev Giles Fraser, who has taken up a position in a deprived parish in South London after resigning from St Paul’s over the Occupy protest, tweeted: “Absolute rubbish from the Archbishop of York, I’m afraid.”
Dr John Sentamu had posted a paper on his own website explaining why he believed same-sex marriage to be wrong. He criticises those who attempt to draw a parallel between same-sex marriage and interracial marriage.
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Who cares what motor-mouth of Southwark tweets, and why would anyone bother to pay the digger a quid to read about it? Then Giles wonders why people cross the street when they see him coming. Sad.
“The Church of England was plunged into another row over gay marriage…[recently] when a cleric condemned”
Yeah, whatever Ruthie, if you want to write about a disgraced cleric no one listens to any more in a paper no one reads.
#2 – Yet the BBC gives him a regular pulpit, no?
I agre he is a tedious set of liberal cliches. He believes so little I wonder how this Jewish lad ended up in the Chrisitan tribe/ Perhaps he believed more in the past.
I understand evangelical Anglicans are planning to set up a church in Fraser’s old parish in London, so there is hope yet.
Like PM, I was non-plussed. The opening sentence is: “The Church of England was plunged into another row over gay marriage…”.
I read further, expecting to hear about some heated debate in Synod, or perhaps a press statement issued by a group like Reform or Church Society.
Instead, what do we get? A *tweet* by a single priest in Southwark…. Obviously a very slow news day.