Bishop denies Kenya trip was ended by gay row
-05/06/06

The Anglican Bishop of Chelmsford, the Rt Rev John Gladwin, has told the BBC that it is not true to say that his recent trip to Kenya with a group of curates was cut short because of a public row about his sympathy for lesbian and gay Christians. It was completed after a hiatus.

Speaking on the BBC Radio 4 ‘Sunday’ programme yesterday, Bishop Gladwin said that hospitality continued to be extended by the Kenyan church in a “quite overwhelming” way – even after his patronage of Changing Attitude, which advocates the full inclusion of homosexual persons in the church, was made known.

The main aim of the trip was to visit educational projects and churches in favour of a linking arrangement between Chelmsford and Mount Kenya Diocese.

The events of the bishop’s Kenya excursion have been the subject of intense media speculation, including reports that he blamed the devil for the way things worked out. the rest