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Wales - Morgan vows not to add to persecution in gay sex wars
[Robin Turner]
THE Archbishop of Wales has placed himself firmly in the liberal camp in the increasingly bitter split over gay sex in the world Anglican church. Dr Barry Morgan said, "In many countries of or world people are being persecuted simply because of their sexual orientation. "In fact there are 80 countries in the world which persecute gay and lesbian people through their penal codes with punishments ranging from death to mutilation and imprisonment. "We do not as a church want to do anything that adds to the suffering and marginalisation of such people."
The Archbishop was speaking this week at the Church in Wales governing body meeting in Lampeter. He made it clear he believes the church had a role in speaking on social and political issues. He said clerics were often criticised for not sticking to strictly religious issues. But he said, "The implication of that criticism is that the Christian faith has nothing to do with the issues of daily living but has to do with a relationship with God, separated from and abstracted from the problems of the world in which we live. "The very meaning of incarnation is that this God of Jesus got involved in the mess of daily living not by being religious but by touching the lives of those excluded by religious and moral political authorities."
The 70-million strong church is sharply divided, with Anglicans in some African and other nations strongly condemning same-sex relationships.
This summer when the Anglican Church of Canada affirmed the "integrity and sanctity" of gay relationships, Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies derided it as "unacceptable to Bible-believing, orthodox Christians." And the consecration in the USA of the gay bishop Gene Robinson has caused several provinces to cut ties with America.
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THE Archbishop of Wales has placed himself firmly in the liberal camp in the increasingly bitter split over gay sex in the world Anglican church. Dr Barry Morgan said, "In many countries of or world people are being persecuted simply because of their sexual orientation. "In fact there are 80 countries in the world which persecute gay and lesbian people through their penal codes with punishments ranging from death to mutilation and imprisonment. "We do not as a church want to do anything that adds to the suffering and marginalisation of such people."
The Archbishop was speaking this week at the Church in Wales governing body meeting in Lampeter. He made it clear he believes the church had a role in speaking on social and political issues. He said clerics were often criticised for not sticking to strictly religious issues. But he said, "The implication of that criticism is that the Christian faith has nothing to do with the issues of daily living but has to do with a relationship with God, separated from and abstracted from the problems of the world in which we live. "The very meaning of incarnation is that this God of Jesus got involved in the mess of daily living not by being religious but by touching the lives of those excluded by religious and moral political authorities."
The 70-million strong church is sharply divided, with Anglicans in some African and other nations strongly condemning same-sex relationships.
This summer when the Anglican Church of Canada affirmed the "integrity and sanctity" of gay relationships, Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the West Indies derided it as "unacceptable to Bible-believing, orthodox Christians." And the consecration in the USA of the gay bishop Gene Robinson has caused several provinces to cut ties with America.
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