Rowan Williams: My gay iends thk I let them down as Archbishop of Canterbury | PkNews

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. Currently, acrdg to non law, no Church of England mister n bls or marry gay upl.

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

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.

UNR ROWAN WILLIAMS, THE CHURCH HAS FAILED GAY PEOPLE

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. Here we discs baptist, the Bible, gay marriage, and whether he is creatg another standard for judgg who is and isn’t a Christian.

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

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].

ROWAN WILLIAMS: GAY RELATNSHIPS ‘PARABLE TO MARRIAGE’

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:.

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?

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

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.

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

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. 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.