Sometimes, you really couldn’t make it up. There are some moments where the thought comes to mind: ‘How is that even a thing?’
Two recent examples spring to mind. In the first, the Methodist Church of Great Britain managed to approve two mutually-incompatible definitions of marriage: ‘Within the Methodist Church [marriage] is understood in two ways: that marriage can only be between a man and a woman; that marriage can be between any two people. The Methodist Church affirms both understandings…’ It’s just nonsense.
And in the second, the Bishop of Liverpool, Paul Bayes, said: ‘Let the world set the agenda … The world beyond the church has set the moral agenda, and those who kneel with our footballers, or who see no difference between attending the marriage of their gay or their straight friends or work colleagues, find the community of faith to be wanting and indeed increasingly offensive. Nowhere is that more true than in the area of human sexuality.’ Rubbish.
