In a radio interview on 10 January, Tim Farron MP, the former Liberal Democrat leader, said he had tried to push away the question of ‘is gay sex sinful’.
He was asked this question in a news conference during the 2017 General Election by journalists. Having had time to reflect, he has now said he had answered ‘foolishly and wrongly, by giving an answer that, frankly, was not right’ when he had said it wasn’t sinful.
While he said he could have tried to explain the Bible’s teaching on sex and sexuality, he said it would have been ‘naive in the extreme’ to expect journalists to give him a hearing on the theological details.
