Bishop of Reading... or not.

[taimatsu]

Jeffry John has announced he will be withdrawing his acceptance of the post of suffragan Bishop of Reading. He's the gay priest everyone's been making a fuss about. I find this incredibly sad, but at least he won't be subject to the sniping for years and years to come.
This Guardian article expresses very succintly the problem with bashing the Bible when opposing homosexuality - the Bible says far more about other societal rules which the Church no longer upholds (eg. the subordination of women).

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[quisalan.livejournal.com]

Unrelated note - please can you give me the email address or phone number of the person whose borrowed my Ramna please?

Not very happy that he hasn't contacted me :(

[willjsm.livejournal.com]

A learned friend of mine told me recently that there's only two main references to homosexuality in the Bible - Leviticus (sp.?) and Paul's letter to the Corinthians (?); that aside,everything is allusion at best.

His argument was that given Lev. was a nutter and Old Testament, and Paul was merely an apostle, surely both should be read in the context of Jesus telling us to love everyone.

REligious thread, anyone?