BREAKING NEWS

Monday 25 May 2009

Gay Men and the Church

A couple of stories doing the rounds today on the subject of the church. First off, Rev Scot Rennie has been appointed as a minister in Aberdeen. He is the first openly gay clergyman with crucially, a sexually active relationship in the UK. Wowzers I hear you cry. Yes this is significant but fear not, more than 12,000 people including 272 serving Church of Scotland ministers, more than 700 ministers from Protestant and Catholic churches in Britain and more than 500 from oversees signed an online petition protesting. Having been appointed, the question must surely be - how long can he stay appointed? Read more here.

More cheery news from the church, this time from father John Owen, the communications officer (surely some mistake? lol) for the archdiocese of Cardiff who popped up on the BBCs 'Big Questions' show yesterday morning and proclaimed in light of the Ryan Inquiry (published last week) that 'most of these offences [priests having sex with children] are being committed by homosexuals'. Read the full story here.

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