by David Virtue, Virtueonline
Speaking to the Cambridge Union recently, the former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said he was “thick” not to recognize that faithful and committed same sex relationships are a “huge blessing”.
The archbishop doesn’t get it. His tenure was marked by one disastrous decision after another, forcing him, in the end to resign over his failure to investigate abuse allegations against lay leader John Smyth when Welby became archbishop in 2013.
On same sex relationships he has proven to be equally disastrous and theologically illiterate.
Welby said, “When they fall in love, and when they live out that love faithfully and with stability and caring for others, it is a huge blessing for them and for society; and I have seen that in so many places that, in the end, even I began to realise that I was being thick.”
The archbishop’s capitulation to the culture over same sex relationships can only be described as naive at best and eternally dangerous at worst to the souls of those who engage in such behaviors.
Scripture is abundantly clear that “from the beginning of creation, ‘male and female He made them’ [Gen 1:27] and ‘for this reason a man … will be joined to his wife and the two will become one flesh’ [Gen 2:24]” (Mark 10:2-12; Matt 19:3-9). In other words, the fact that God had designed two (and only two) primary sexes for complementary sexual pairing was Jesus’ basis for a rigorous monogamy position.
To bless something God has never blessed is to go against God. That thought had apparently not crossed Welby’s mind, or if it had, that he, Justin Welby knew better, and that God had changed His mind in light of today’s open-minded progressive culture.
Welby, in a podcast, had come to the conclusion that all sexual activity, whether straight or gay, should be within a committed relationship.