Hampshire News
Bishop: Time to rethink Bible's same-sex portrayal
9:14am Tuesday 14th February 2012
THE Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Rev Nicholas Holtam, said this week that there are more views on civil partnerships in the church than have been expressed officially so far – and that the current position of the Church of England ‘does not meet the pastoral needs of people in our care’.
In an interview on BBC Radio 4’s Sunday programme, Bishop Holtam stressed that it was now time for an open and honest conversation and to revisit the traditional portrayal of homosexuality in the Bible where it was predominantly ‘idolatrous, promiscuous and exploitative’.
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