The archbishop, John Sentamu, asked: “What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them? However, that is a big question, to which we are going to come. I am afraid that now is not the moment.”
No. It isn’t. That moment passed years ago, when civil partnerships were first brought in, and the archbishop’s was one of the loudest voices demanding that the Church of England have nothing to do with them. The bishops still don’t realise what damage they did then.
[blockquote]Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?[/blockquote]
Yes I would. Sheep and trees are not symptoms of a disordered creation. Same-sex relationships are and therefore have no place in God’s new creation where all things are made new.
DITTO!
Stupid church, listening to scripture and not the latest thing. Have to hand it to the Guardian to call the kettle black.
Well written as always. Unappealingly self congratulatory to my tastes but then it’s written for the converted. A Eusebius for the non-believer.