Pitt letters focus spotlight on Archbishop of Canterbury’s view of gay sex

Friday, 15th August 2008
By: George Conger

London: Correspondence between the Archbishop of Canterbury and a former member of the Church in Wales published in national newspaper last week has focused the spotlight on Dr Rowan Williams’ evolving views on homosexuality.

In an exchange of letters eight years ago with Dr Deborah Pitt, an evangelical member of the Church in Wales, Dr Williams stated that by the late 1980s he had “definitely come to the conclusion” that Scripture did not condemn faithful same-sex sexual relationships.

After years of study, “I concluded that an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might therefore reflect the love of God in a way comparable to marriage, if and only if it had about it the same character of absolute covenanted faithfulness,” he wrote. the rest

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