Archbishop urges Christians to ‘repent’ over ‘wicked’ attitude to homosexuality

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/10271438/Archbishop-urges-Christians-to-repent-over-wicked-attitude-to-homosexuality.html

The Most Rev Justin Welby told an audience of traditional born-again Christians that they must “repent” over the way gay and lesbian people have been treated in the past and said most young people viewed Christians as no better than racists on the issue.

Archbishop Welby, who as a young priest once opposed allowing gay couples to adopt children, said the church now had to face up to what amounted to one of the most rapid changes in public attitudes ever.

While insisting that he did not regret voting against same-sex marriage in the House of Lords, he admitted that his own mind was not yet “clear” on the wider issues which he was continuing to think about.

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Ben Summerskill, chief executive of gay rights charity Stonewall, said: "It is a tiny bit rich to say he has great sympathy for gay people when in the 10 years since the introduction of civil partnerships the Church has doggedly refused to bless people's long term partnerships even though they are happy to have services for pets and even canals.

[shenmue]

1. I am getting to like him.

[MNBrewer]

3. I applaud his progress on this issue, but

How is anyone to take him seriously in THAT outfit? It looks like Aquaman and Liberace threw up on him.

[closeupready]

2. How can conscientious people worship a sadistic deity who

created people exclusively gay AND commands that they deny themselves satisfaction of the fundamental need for physical love? All while maintaining that "God is love" and "Jesus loves you"?

Makes NO sense, and it's encouraging to see the leaders of these superstitions beginning to try to account for the logical disconnect there. K&R

[mitchtv]

5. and no animals in heaven, either

count me out

[theHandpuppet]

4. Trying to have it both ways

Another excerpt

But he went on: “One of things that I think is most noticeable where we make a bad impression in society at the moment is because we are seen as against things, and you talk to people and they say I don’t want to hear about a faith that is homophobic, that is this that that, that is the other.”

Asked later whether this meant that he regretted voting against gay marriage, he said he stood by his vote because he did not believe “rewriting the nature of marriage” was the best way to end discrimination against gay people.

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6. Whitewashing. n/t