Bishop of Liverpool apologises for opposing gay cleric
The Bishop of Liverpool has apologised for formerly opposing the appointment of gay cleric Dr Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading. He has apologised in his book, A Fallible Church. He was one of nine Bishops to object to the appointment. As a result of the objection and the resulting stress, Dr Jeffrey John did not take up the post.
He called for Anglicans to “acknowledge the authoritative biblical examples of love between two people of the same gender most notably in the relationship of Jesus and his beloved [John] and David and Jonathan”.
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5 February 2008 by
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