The failure of Richard Wood to be ordained as a curate to serve Dagenham Parish Church is simply the latest in a number of tense situations arising out of the position of the Diocesan Bishop, the Rt Revd John Gladwin, on human sexuality. Read more
Wednesday 18 July 2007
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Does Bishop Gladwin know about, and approve of, the shifting of furniture that is going on within 'Changing Attitude'?
According to one of its pages, ‘gay, lesbian and bisexual people are called by God to express their sexuality in loving, faithful and committed relationships’.
Yet according to another, ‘Sexual Ethics: A Report of the Lesbian and Gay Clergy Consultation Working Group', the talk is of "...the ideal outcome may be for mature adults to live in covenantal relationships that are stable, sexually exclusive/monogamous and permanent. This ideal is in tension with our common inheritance of genetic predispositions and developmental damage that compromise our capacity for relating, and often make serial commitments, and serial faithfulness, a more realistic aspiration.
Even harder to cater for and to evaluate is the degree to which any committed relationship may actually inhibit one or both partners from realising their full potential in some respects …" which sounds more like a sexual free-for-all, or at best 'serial monogamy', than the 'faithful and committed' model that we have been sold.
Just a little aside! While Bishop Gladwin may feel he is justified in supporting homosexual practice, he can hardly, surely, be seen to support promiscuity.
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