An archbishop set to retire next year declared the Bible does not condemn gay marriage.
“What all this amounts to is that one cannot argue that there is one accepted traditional way of interpreting Scripture that is true and orthodox and all else is modern revisionism, culturally conditioned … so taking the Bible as a whole and taking what it says very seriously may lead us into a very different view of same-sex relationships than the one traditionally upheld by the church,” Barry Morgan said during his final address.
The archbishop for the Church of Wales has been accused of being “swayed by the liberal culture of our age,” according to BBC.
Morgan previously came under fire for creating a series of prayers for clergy to perform during a same-sex union.
Now it appears he continues to stir the pot on the same-sex marriage debate within the Anglican community.
“We are not thereby abandoning the Bible but trying to interpret it in a way that is consistent with the main thrust of the ministry of Jesus, who went out of His way to minister to those who were excluded, marginalized and abandoned by His society because they were regarded as impure and unholy by the religious leaders of His day, either because of their gender, age, morality or sexuality. Taking Holy Scripture seriously means paying attention to Jesus’ ministry of inclusivity,” Morgan said.
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