We’re not all against gay marriage, says bishop

 
30 May 2013

A Bishop has spoken in favour of gay marriage amid fears the House of Lords could be about to derail the proposed new law.

The Right Reverend Nicholas Holtam, the Bishop of Salisbury, said he wanted to make clear that not everyone in the Church of England opposed the legislation. Bishop Holtam said: “Before Wilberforce, Christians saw slavery as biblical... Similarly in South Africa the Dutch Reformed Church supported Apartheid because it was biblical. No one now supports either slavery or apartheid. The biblical texts have not changed; our interpretation has.”

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