{"id":64035,"date":"2017-10-02T13:16:38","date_gmt":"2017-10-02T17:16:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64035"},"modified":"2017-10-02T18:24:11","modified_gmt":"2017-10-02T22:24:11","slug":"the-guardian-article-on-the-gq-interview-with-archbishop-welby-justin-welby-unable-to-give-straight-answer-on-whether-gay-sex-is-sinful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64035","title":{"rendered":"A Guardian Article on the GQ Interview with Archbishop Welby&#8211;&#8216;Justin Welby unable to give &#8216;straight answer&#8217; on whether gay sex is sinful&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Asked if he was trying to reconcile Anglican church leaders in places such as Uganda and more liberal churches principally in the UK and north America, Welby said: \u201cIt is irreconcilable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But, he added, homophobia was sinful \u201cbecause you are hating individuals. I don\u2019t think it is sinful to say that you disagree with gay sex. But to express that by way of hatred for people is absolutely wrong in the same way as misogyny or racism is wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response to Campbell\u2019s suggestion that his answer was \u201cmorally a cop-out\u201d, Welby responded: \u201cYes. I am copping out because I am struggling with the issue.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The divisions within the global Anglican communion over same-sex relationships will be central to a five-day meeting of [some of the] primates in Canterbury, which starts on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/uk-news\/2017\/oct\/02\/justin-welby-unable-to-give-straight-answer-on-whether-gay-sex-is-sinful\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked if he was trying to reconcile Anglican church leaders in places such as Uganda and more liberal churches principally in the UK and north America, Welby said: \u201cIt is irreconcilable.\u201d But, he added, homophobia was sinful \u201cbecause you are<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=64035\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[382,175,67,168,177,34,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justin-welby","category-anthropology","category-archbishop-of-canterbury","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-pastoral-theology","category-theology","category-theology-scripture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64035"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64035\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64038,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64035\/revisions\/64038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}