Bishops: double-speak on Pilling

Wallace Benn  |  Features
Date posted:  1 Mar 2014
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Bishops: double-speak on Pilling

Bishop Wallace Benn

Wallace Benn comments on the recent consultation

‘No church can live in integrity if it proclaims loyalty to Scripture, but then ignores Scripture when faced with new proposals for her life.’ (Bishop Keith Sinclair)

‘While rejecting homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture…cannot advise the legitimising or blessing of same-sex unions, nor ordaining those involved in same-gender unions.’ (Lambeth 1998)

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