'It's harder for straights to feel Christian charity than gays'

From: The Spectator | Date: May 10, 2008| Author: Hobson, Theo | Copyright information

I am sitting in St Mary's church, Putney, home of right-on Anglicanism.

Bishop Gene Robinson -- the gay American whose election nearly split the Anglican church -- is seeking reassurance from his fans. He's had a grilling from our nasty press, he says, and is relieved to be among friends. I get out my pen and prepare to dip it in poison. I feel deeply ambivalent about Gene -- not hostile, but very much in two minds. And I think he may hold the future of the Anglican communion in his ...

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