Pro-Homosexual Church of England Dean Spins Smyth Report to Blacken Evangelicals
by David Virtue, VOL:
A pro-homosexual Church of England Oxford Dean is attempting to paint evangelicals as those who “torture and oppress” are therefore responsible for the Church’s alleged homophobia and should accept same-sex relations as normative.
The Very Rev. Prof Martyn Percy, Dean of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, has made the link in an article published on the website of Modern Church, a society promoting liberal Christianity, of which he is a Vice President. (He is not the first to make such allegations and to attack evangelicals, that “honor” goes to Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham.)
In the essay, called Beating the bounds in states of unfeeling, Prof Percy says of the House of Bishops’ report, Marriage and Same-Sex Relations After the Shared Conversations, to be debated at Synod on 15th February, “We learnt far too much about how tortured the authors all felt in this debate; and much of their own agonizing and pain. But we learnt virtually nothing of the pain of the people – the very subjects of the report – that the church continues to torture and to oppress.”
He claims the Bishops’ report is guilty of “projective identification” — communicating their tensions, chaos and confusion in a way that causes similar feelings in the reader. He writes, “They project their powerlessness on to the very groups who most need compassion and liberation.”
Against this background, Channel 4 News reported a police investigation into Jonathan Smyth QC, a prominent conservative Evangelical and former chairman of the Iwerne Minister Camps, who is alleged to have carried out ‘brutal lashings’ on boys in his care, not at the camps, but in a garden shed near his home.
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