Newsnight on the London Letter

By Peter Ould, on February 3rd, 2012

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Do you know what the most disappointing part of this whole piece was? The way both studio guests completely failed to take us to the theological arguments involved. The debate in the church is not over sociological concerns – it is primarily a very simple question of whether the Bible does or doesn’t support same-sex relationships. Whilst it’s interesting for the Church to note what society is doing and how we can engage with it, we do not take our ethical stance from the cover of the New Statesman (or Spectator for that matter).

And no Giles Fraser, stating that “Jesus never said anything about homosexuality” is not a theological argument. And actually, it’s not even true…

Tom Jones

Sugden agreed with him that Jesus said nothing about homosexuality…..
http://sammymorse.livejournal.com/ Gerry Lynch

Peter, you say “it is primarily a very simple question of whether the
Bible does or doesn’t support same-sex relationships.” It is for
Conservative Evangelicals. For everyone else it is a much more
complicated and nuanced question. Conservative Evangelicals are a
minority in the Church of England, and they are in a minority even in
this conservative Church of Ireland Diocese. The vast majority of
Anglicans, over the entire period since the Reformation, have not
subscribed to the doctrine of sola scriptura.