Ex-Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams says views on gay people led church to not tackle child abuse

Mar 16, 2018 by

by Benjamin Butterworth, Pink News:

Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams has said child sex abuse in the Church may have been ignored due to an awkwardness around gay people.

Williams said the Church of England “overcompensated” for earlier repressive attitudes to gay clergy with a reluctance to deal rigorously with priests who sexually abused children.

He told an independent inquiry into child sex abuse that church leaders 30 or 40 years ago did not want to be “judgmental about people’s sexual activities”.

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