Posted on 09/25/2010 6:31:14 PM PDT by marshmallow
From behind the Times’s paywall, the sound of an Archbishop of Canterbury digging a hole for himself so deep that it will soon swallow him up.
Dr Rowan Williams has given a disastrous interview to the paper today that leads his interviewer, Ginny Dougary, to describe his position on homosexuality as “both confusing and rather revolting”. Well, she’s certainly right on the first count. Here’s my paraphrase of the Archbishop’s current position:
Does he still think it’s OK for gay couples to have sex, as he wrote years ago? “That’s what I wrote as a theologian, you know, putting forward a suggestion. That’s not the job I have now,” he tells Dougary.
No gay bishops, then? Actually, gay bishops are OK, as long as they don’t have sex. (The same prohibition doesn’t apply to lay people, for reasons lost in the mist of time.)
So it’s appropriate for the celibate Jeffrey John to be a bishop? Here +Rowan really squirms, saying he “let down” John by blocking him as Bishop of Reading. But we don’t discover why, this year, the still-celibate Dean John unexpectedly disappeared from the candidates’ list for Southwark.
But does the Archbishop hope that one day gay bishops can have partners? “Pass”.
Yes, he really did say that.
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The Bible is pretty clear on this stuff. I guess he is a man lacking in faith.
Rowan Williams is an embarrassment.
Sad.
Apostate. Lost. Very sad.
Indeed. Answering this way to such a question is no different than denying Jesus.
This is a man who does not believe.
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