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He talks about how the church and many of its members have made sexual "orthodoxy" — based on a selective handful of bible verses — the litmus test for belonging or being excluded, when “Jesus doesn’t mention sexuality at all. It clearly wasn’t a big deal for him.”
He talks about the open letter that broadcaster Sandi Toksvig wrote to Anglican bishops in 2022 raking them over the coals for their hypocrisy and cruelty about LGBTQ people."
A Sunday-reading thread:
Diarmaid MacCulloch talks about his forthcoming book Lower Than the Angels: A History of Sex and Christianity.
He talks about how, when he sought ordination as an Anglican priest (his father was a priest before him), he was resoundingly slapped down because he was a gay partnered man and refused to lie about that, as many of his peers ordained in the same period did.
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