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Contents:

• ROWAN WILLIAMS: GAY UPL REFLECT THE LOVE OF GOD
• ROWAN WILLIAMS: MORAL BAT OVER ABORTN, GAY MARRIAGE ARE BEG ‘WEAPONIZED CULTURE WARS’
• ROWAN WILLIAMS: MY GAY IENDS THK I LET THEM DOWN AS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
• UNR ROWAN WILLIAMS, THE CHURCH HAS FAILED GAY PEOPLE
• ANGLIN STANCE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 'MORALLY NTEMPTIBLE', SAYS GAY CLERIC
• ROWAN WILLIAMS: GAY RELATNSHIPS ‘PARABLE TO MARRIAGE’
• ROWAN WILLIAMS: CHURCH ‘WRONG’ ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY BUT CAMERON HAS EMBARRASSED ON GAY MARRIAGE
• ROWAN WILLIAMS: PEOPLE STILL SAY I LET THEM DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT AN ARCHBISHOP N’T BE A MPAIGNER

ROWAN WILLIAMS: GAY UPL REFLECT THE LOVE OF GOD

Gay relatnships n "reflect the love of God" a way that is parable to marriage, acrdg to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan a seri of letters om 2000 and 2001, when he was still archbishop of Wal, Williams wrote that scriptural prohibns agast homosexualy, such as those Levic, were addrsed "to heterosexuals lookg for sexual variety their experience" the rrponnce, an exchange wh an evangelil Christian, Williams argued that passag cricisg homosexual activy were not aimed at people who were gay by nature. "He also exprsed his optimism that the church might change s stance on homosexualy: "The church has shifted s stance on several matters, notably the rightns of lendg money at tert and the moral admissibily of ntraceptn, so I am bound to ask if this is another such issue.

The nference, which end last Sunday, was signed to mata uny the face of rifts over the ordatn of gay bishops and the blsgs of same-sex letters, which uld have wreaked more havoc had they been leaked earlier, are likely to fuel the fury of nservative evangelils angry wh Williams for failg to disciple a US church for nsecratg a gay man as bishop of New Hampshire.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: MORAL BAT OVER ABORTN, GAY MARRIAGE ARE BEG ‘WEAPONIZED CULTURE WARS’

“Williams has been attacked by nservativ for his liberal views on homosexualy and by liberals for failg to live up to the prcipl. ”Some CofE bishops favor amendg the nomatn’s doctre on marriage that adher to the biblil fn of beg exclively between men and women, not lbians or gay upl. ”Vghn Roberts, a theologilly Evangelil same-sex attracted clergyman who Croft dialogued wh advance of announcg his views, wrote an say  disagreement wh Croft’s ph for the flounrg nomatn to support and advote for same-sex pot of ntent put forth by Roberts was his belief that the bishop had failed to aquately engage wh same-sex attracted Christians who had chosen celibacy over homosexual romance.

Christians need to nont feelgs of embarrassment, shame and disgt over homosexualy, the archbishop of Canterbury has one of his strongt terventns yet on an issue that li at the heart of some of the ept divisns the church he leads, Dr Rowan Williams said the church was still "scratchg s head" about s posn on same-sex was speakg at an event volvg Christian teenagers at Lambeth Palace, his official rince London, which was entled "Help, my iends thk I'm mad" and where some of the discsn foced on how Anglinism was viewed om Williams also turned to the qutn of women bishops, which is due to be nsired by the Church of England's general synod next week, sayg was another issue that gave the imprsn that sex was "the only thg the church is terted " Daily Telegraph reported him as sayg: "Same wh same-sex marriage, where once more we're ed to beg alongsi people who are gay; many of our iends may be – ed we may be – wrtlg wh that issue ourselv, and the church is scratchg s head and tryg to work out where is on all that, and what to thk about . "The archbishop's ments e after the Church of England was cricised this month by gay rights mpaigners for liverg an unpromisg warng to the ernment agast prsg ahead wh a ntroversial proposal to legalise gay marriage.

Introducg same-sex marriage uld lead to the church beg forced out of s role of nductg weddgs on behalf of the state, the church claimed a submissn rponse to the ernment's nsultatn on gay Natnal Secular Society on Tuday published a legal opn obtaed rponse to the church's submissn.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: MY GAY IENDS THK I LET THEM DOWN AS ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY

Currently, acrdg to non law, no Church of England mister n bls or marry gay upl. Followg his claratn, more bishops me out support of gay marriage.

LONDON (, wh fil om VirtueOnle) - As long as a homosexual partnership is "fahful and lifelong, " prents only the same ethil qutns as a natural marriage, wrote the head of the Church of England a seri of letters, datg om 2000 and 2001, that have only jt been ma public. Although he had once opposed homosexual activy, he said, he had changed his md while a universy profsor. The meetg was tend to tackle the divisns the Anglin Communn over the acceptance of homosexualy by the liberal factns the church.

He quot Archbishop Peter Akola, the head of the Anglin church Nigeria, sayg that those phg for acceptance of homosexualy are "trivializg" their relign. A siar report, dated January 26, 2009, by orthodox Anglins Canada, exprsed their gratu to the doctrally orthodox primat who have been "willg to cross jurisdictnal boundari" to provi oversight for Anglins unwillg to go along wh the pro-homosexual agenda of the learship of the Anglin Church of Canada [AC]. He tried to hold together a church splterg over teachgs on homosexualy while his personal views seem more aligned wh the mory.

UNR ROWAN WILLIAMS, THE CHURCH HAS FAILED GAY PEOPLE

Here we discs baptist, the Bible, gay marriage, and whether he is creatg another standard for judgg who is and isn’t a Christian. I said when I was appoted that what I hoped and prayed for was a patient and reful bate, rpectful of the experience of gay and lbian people.

"The church is wrong on gays, " says former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan WilliamsWilliams has lled on the Church to rethk s views on homosexualy. RETHINK: Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said the church should rensir their stance on homosexualy [GETTY].

He said: "I thk the church has to put s hands up and say our attu towards gay people has at tim been appallgly vlent. Williams, 63, Master of Magdalen College, Cambridge, said the Church should "thk aga" about s attu to homosexuals. Rowan Williams aga on homosexualy:.

ANGLIN STANCE ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE 'MORALLY NTEMPTIBLE', SAYS GAY CLERIC

QUESTION: On the issue of homosexualy and gay marriage, do you nsir your own views and those of the church as beg out of touch wh the views of your stunts at Cambridge, and do you thk that's a problem? But, all that beg said, I thk the church has to put s hands up and say our attu towards gay people has at tim been appallgly vlent. We have to face the fact that we've eply failed a lot of gay and lbian people, not only historilly but more recently as well.

I thk that there is a very strong, aga theologil, se for thkg aga about our attus towards homosexualy: but I'm a b hant about whether marriage is the right tegory to talk about same sex relatn, and I thk there is a bate we haven't que had about that.

The former Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams adms he regularly qutned whether he had let gay and lbian people down durg his time post.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: GAY RELATNSHIPS ‘PARABLE TO MARRIAGE’

Appearg at the Edburgh Internatnal Book Ftival nversatn wh Bra’s send female rabbi Barons Julia Nberger, Dr Williams said he regularly qutned whether he had let gay and lbian people down durg his time as Archbishop amid rows over the Church’s teachg on gay relatnships. “I know that is what a great many of my gay and lbian iends would say that I did, ” he said. As Archbishop October 2012 Dr Williams admted that the Church of England’s attu to gay relatnships had often been harmful to people on the receivg end of s msage.

In the prev month Dr Williams said that while the Church was “wrong” not to have advoted gay equaly, Prime Mister David Cameron was wrong to have embarrassed the Church of England over the issue of equal marriage. It is an act of legislatn that has been almost universally acknowledged as a great good, a real advance for social stabily and human more people entered civil partnerships than the ernment had anticipated, and the first years a high proportn of them were olr upl who had been together secrecy or semi-secrecy for s – some om before the time homosexual acts were crimalised 1967.

For gay Christians was a e of profound thanksgivg to official church – and here my ncern is maly wh the Church of England – is one of the few public domas where this velopment has been only gdggly accepted, and some quarters vehemently opposed. In recent years, while society has moved towards acceptance, the church has arguably moved the oppose the archbishop of Canterbury Gee Carey was succeed by Rowan Williams 2002, most expected a change of approach, not least sce Williams himself had endorsed an ethil amework for gay relatnships and personally mpaigned agast the culture of lyg about homosexualy that obtas the church. Sce then the church's le on homosexualy has ntued to harn.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: CHURCH ‘WRONG’ ABOUT HOMOSEXUALY BUT CAMERON HAS EMBARRASSED ON GAY MARRIAGE

The CofE has refed to untenance any form of official lurgil regnn for civil partnerships; has sought special exemptns om human rights and equali legislatn orr to ntue discrimatg agast openly gay clergy or gay employe; has repeatedly rtated s nmnatn of all sexual relatns outsi heterosexual marriage; and has formally barred even celibate gay clergy om beg recently, the bishops of the CofE have set themselv agast ernment proposals to extend civil marriage to clu same-sex upl. About half the world's Anglins are Ain, and the majory of them are vlently homophobic untri whose church back harsh punishments agast homosexuals, right up to the ath are the Anglin provc which the current policy is seekg to appease and keep on board, while the Amerin and Canadian Anglin church that now openly bls gay unns and nsecrate gay bishops are nmned for darg to treat gay people policy may be stutnally expedient, but is morally ntemptible.

ROWAN WILLIAMS: PEOPLE STILL SAY I LET THEM DOWN ON GAY RIGHTS, BUT AN ARCHBISHOP N’T BE A MPAIGNER

Worst of all, by appeasg their persecutors betrays the tly heroic gay Christians of Ai who stand up for jtice and tth at risk of their liv. Gay monogamy needs to be lled marriage officially, as already is stctively and unofficially by many people, not simply bee mt be seen to be equal, but bee mt be seen to be equally holy, equally a gift and votn of God to those who are lled to is a predictn.