Williams' actions seem a "betrayal"

Colin Coward feels betrayed by the "Dr Rowan Williams’ new-found opposition to gays and lesbians in the ordained ministry of the Anglican Communion."

Coward, an out gay Anglican priest was a student of Williams' when he taught theology at Cambridge. Coward is also the Director of Changing Attitude.

“I am sure he is still the man I knew as being inclusive. I think he must be torn about inside.”

He added: “The part of me that knows Rowan as a friend still values him as a friend. But another part of me is incredibly disappointed. I feel betrayed and let down.”

But he praised Dr Williams’s teaching at Westcott House. “It was the first place I could be comfortably gay,” said Mr Coward, who went there aged 31 after an initial career as an architect.

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Posted by Nicholas Knisely on December 7, 2009 8:00 PM | |
Comments (3)

There is something remotely familar about overpuffed, overgarbed +clergy honchos rushing about trying to get confessions of ill-doing from a female they´d prefer to ignore and/or to burn at the stake...a Saint of a female whom the grandstanding greedy blowhards wanted DEAD more than HOLY and alive! Malicious +priests hate to be upstaged by innocents who speak to the world in plain words of Christs joyous/genuine truth(s) instead of pontificating about the importance of holding on to ignorant religious fears and hate.

Posted by Leonardo Ricardo [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 8, 2009 1:15 AM

I do understand, as Fr. Coward does say, that Dr. Williams does experience a lot of anguish. I think that he was forced to accept the position, and I suppose that he sees it as a cross to bear.

I would urge readers to pray for Dr. Williams, and for everyone on all sides of this debate, that they may be converted to the mind of Christ, which is greater than any of our acknowledged or unacknowledged ideologies.

Posted by Ren Aguila [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 8, 2009 7:50 AM

The Most Reverend Rowan Williams was given a bully pulpit and he's used it to bully. I would hope that might have some effect on his reins.

Posted by Paul Woodrum [TypeKey Profile Page] | December 8, 2009 6:40 PM

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