Bishop: gays ‘amongst the best’ clerics
By Bill Bowder

GAY CLERICS are among the best in East Anglia, said the Bishop of St Edmundsbury & Ipswich, the Rt Revd Richard Lewis, this week. The Bishop also backed the new civil-partnership legislation, and urged people to affirm gay clergy.

"They are amongst the best we have, and I am daily thankful for them," he said. "Instead of bickering about what is thought to be wrong in terms of human relationships, for men and women and same-sex couples, it would be good if there was some affirmation of the things that are good and worth celebrating," he told the East Anglican Daily Times in an end-of-year interview.
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