The Telegraph (via Martin Beckford) has it all!
Benedict XVI claimed that legislation introduced by Labour to end discrimination “actually violates natural law” because it stopped worshippers remaining true to their beliefs.
Rather than making society more equal, the Government’s new rules limited religious freedom, he said.
His strongly [...]
I present this absolute gem from the front page of today’s Church of England Newspaper.
David Skinner, a Baptist who started the petition, said: “There is no such thing as homophobia, because there are no such things as homosexuals. Homosexuals are the invention of a German in the 19th century who was a pederast.”
Where do we [...]
In the middle of a sometimes heated debate over on the Fulcrum Forum, commenter Ken Petrie has written an absolutely brilliant piece on the complexities of this issue. Enjoy!
As I see it, there are several aspects to the problem: social, psychological, biological, and theological being the four I find obvious.
Socially and sociologically, we live in [...]
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From the Islington Gazette:
A HETEROSEXUAL Islington couple want to become the first in Britain to have a “gay” civil partnership – because they do not believe in marriage.
Civil servants Tom Freeman and Katherine Doyle, both 25, of North Road, Holloway, do not agree with marriage because they say it is “an apartheid” that segregates straight [...]
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Changing Attitude have published the letter that they circulated around various groups in the past week, especially Anglican Mainstream, Fulcrum and Reform. There are parts of the letter that are very good, succinct and powerful, but other aspects which mean that Evangelicals and traditional Anglo-Catholics should not sign it in its present form.
Here’s the text:
A [...]
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Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, has written a commentary on Rowan’s letter to the Communion (pretty much like the rest of the Anglican world has done in fact). The commentary is significant because Tom and Rowan are close and this piece is not just another meandering through the document but should actually act as [...]
When the leading Bishop of Fulcrum, and a fully paid up member of the “Let’s have a Covenant” camp writes stuff like this, you know the game is up for TEC.
In the slow-moving train crash of international Anglicanism, a decision taken in California has finally brought a large coach off the rails altogether. [...]
Nothing like a controversial Bishop to make the headlines…
The Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, has defended traditional biblical teachings on homosexuality and said the Church should not be “rolled over by culture”.
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The bishop’s controversial comments will reignite the battle over homosexuality in the Church of [...]
Go and read it all, but the comments at the end are really thought provoking.
“People who portray gay adults as godless, hedonistic, Christian bashers are not working with the facts,” declared the best-selling author of numerous books about faith and culture. “A substantial majority of gays cite their faith as a central facet of their [...]
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Bishop David Anderson thinks there’s a chance:
With regard to "moratoria" on electing/consecrating any new homosexual bishops in the Anglican Communion, the next chance of such an election isn’t in North America. We have become aware through reliable sources that Dr. Barry Morgan is a man of his word – he previously has said, "I (Barry [...]
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