Mainstream Christianity long ago become profoundly alienated from human sexuality - and, it goes without saying, especially gay sexuality. Could anything be more absurd than a directive issued by the Anglican Church of England (cousins of U.S. Episcopalians) allowing gay clergy to form civil partnerships but requiring that they pledge to be celibate?
If this was an attempt to placate the virulently homophobic Africans in the Anglican Communion, it apparently didn't work - they're furious at the mere idea of gay priests, anyway.
Update: Gay priests are set to defy their
bishops over the no-sex-despite-partnerhips order,
reports the U.K.'s Telegraph.
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