Should I rant about Wimbledon or the Anglican Church?
Anglican, first, I think. Incidentally, I have tried entering leviticus.com. Either the site's down, or it is, as yet, unclaimed. Hm, should I buy it or should I leave it to one of you homosexualists to create mischief?
The Bible, is, however, online. What Does the Bible Say About Homosexuality? Leviticus 18:22 (KJV): "Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind it is abomination." (Does that apply to women, too, I wonder...)
Mind you, Leviticus 4 says that if you sin, you should sacrifice a bullock on the altar of the Lord. If you lie, you should sacrifice a lamb.
I wonder when the next bullock/lamb sacrifice will occur at my local Evangelical Anglican church.
Leviticus 11 lists all the things you shouldn't eat. You know, shellfish being an abomination and all that.
A part of me doesn't really care who the next bishop of Reading is. However, whilst the Anglican Church remains a nationalised industry, I have as much right to express an opinion as the next person. I couldn't really care less whether the Bishop is gay, M&S, D&B, onanist or whatever, but I do get angry by bigots who decide that they find homosexual acts disgusting (although I am heterosexual I generally find the thought of other people's heterosexual acts disgusting.) I also dislike intensely this selective quoting from the Bible to justify a point of view.
My friend Geoff is an Anglican lay preacher. His boyfriend Andy is a Methodist minister - who presided at the wedding of Rachel and Steve, a wedding attended by the great and the good of the Methodist church. It doesn't seem to be a problem to them. Maybe it's about time the Anglican church did schism - within itself and away from the State.
Mind you, it's the same Anglican Church that decreed that Charles Windsor couldn't become its head because of his adulterous affair with a married woman. They seem to forget why the Church of England was set up in the first place - to allow Henry VIII his multiple marriages.
PS Leviticus 12 is good - it insists on circumcision. I would love it if the journalists asked each and every man who opposes the appointment of the gay bishop whether they have been circumcised. I would suspect that they probably haven't.
But, hey, they're breaking the law of scripture.
