Tory leader David Cameron has launched an astonishing attack on the Church of England over its attitudes to homosexuality.
Firstly we had Tony Blair publicly advising the Pope on homosexuality and now we have David Cameron doing the same with the Church of England.
We really do need a separation of church and state:-
Cameron tells Rowan: Make your Church pro-gay.
Tory leader David Cameron has launched an astonishing attack on the Church of England over its attitudes to homosexuality. In an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, Cameron tells award-winning journalist Johann Hari that ‘our Lord Jesus’ would back equality and gay rights if he were around today. He says he doesn’t want to get into a row with the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams. ‘But I think the Church has to do some of the things that the Conservative Party has been through – sorting this issue out and recognising that full equality is a bottom line full essential.’ He also introduces a new phrase to the English language, one that might be current in High Tory circles but not one I’ve heard before, in reference to Muslim women: ‘Blowing the hijab off them.’
Ho ho. And we all thought he was a politician.
Cameron is a member of the Church of England. He worships at a liberal High Anglican church in Kensington and his daughter attends the local church school. Readers here will remember what happened when Tony Blair criticised the Pope on gays, also in an interview with Hari for Attitude. He’s never quite recovered his standing with the Catholic establishment since.
Luckily for Cameron, Dr Williams will probably be more forgiving.
David Cameron tells the Church of England to be more ‘gay friendly’
Ruth Gledhill has picked up on an interview David Cameron has done for a gay magazine called Attitude, (available courtesy of The Independent).
She refers to his ‘astonishing attack on the Church of England over its attitudes to homosexuality’.
Curious, that.
One wonders why Mr Cameron has not seen fit to criticise the Roman Catholic Church, which is rather more robust on the issue.
Or his local mosque, which he might find even more robust.
That aside, Mr Cameron is of the opinion that ‘if our Lord Jesus was around today he would very much be backing a strong agenda on equality and equal rights, and not judging people on their sexuality’.
Cranmer begs to differ: if ‘our Lord Jesus’ were around today, there is nothing at all to suggest that he would be remotely interested in talking about ‘equality’ or ‘rights’ at all.
He would be preaching the gospel, in season and out, and calling on people to repent of their sin and prepare for the coming of the Kingdom.
Mr Cameron says: “I don’t want to get into a huge row with the Archbishop here, but the Church has to do some of the things that the Conservative Party has been through. Sorting this issue out and recognising that full equality is a bottom-line, full essential.”
To be frank, Cranmer is rather irritated by this, not least because Mr Cameron appears to be completely ignorant (as Mrs Gledhill points out) of the ‘endless debates, committees, reports, schisms and not-quite-schisms that have played out in the Anglican Communion over the last decade and more on this issue’.
His Grace would like respectfully to point out to Mr Cameron that the Church of England began the process to which he refers while he was still a whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining morning face, creeping like snail unwillingly past Bekynton to Lower Chapel.
And now, in the tenor of Tony Blair lecturing the Pope on this very matter, David Cameron is suggesting that the Archbishop of Canterbury should ‘modernise’ the Church of England.
Good grief.
In the UK, there’s no-one worth voting for
Labour have turned the UK into a training ground for Islamofascist terrorists; the BNP are the next best thing to Nazis; the Liberal Democrats are so naïve that they “Believe in Fairness” and the Tories have become the gay party:
Cameron tells Rowan: Make your Church pro-gay.
February 7th, 2010 at 11:45 pm
Thank God for Cranmer’s reflections on the above. It now appears that Sodomy is becoming more the norm within this decadent secular state than heterosexuality.
Straight talk is needed to stop the moral rot that is spreading and being encouraged by the three leading political parties of the UK.
So much headway have the forces of evil made that most newspapers will not publish anything anti ‘gay’. I wrote about ‘cottaging’ that goes on around often filthy latrines. Of how blokes practice sodomy with strangers and then, frequently, go home to pass their acquired germs and diseases on to their unsuspecting spouses and mothers of their children.
I asked how people could reconcile the orifice for waste and defecation as a true substitute for the God ordained birth channel by which we frequently cooperate with God in bringing new life in to the world? I tried to show the contrast between love and lust, between faithfulness and fornication. But no newspaper would publish my letter on such a theme. They were afraid of legal repercussions!
I sense we are truly living in the last days when the leaders of the churches have become preachers with itching ears. Indeed – here in Wales – we even have an archbishop who sees no reason why practising ‘gays’ should be barred from either the priesthood or the episcopacy.
It would appear as if so many in the hierarchy of the Anglican church are akin to politicians such as Blair, Cameron and Clegg: utter showers void of moral backbone and spiritual discernment: ‘having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof’ I could be less charitable and call their kind ‘whitened sepulchres’ or a ‘generation of vipers’; but I’ll stop here as I’m far from divine.