sollers

There were many things that made me want to yell at ++ Sentamu's latest statement on gay marriage, but the bit that made me most cross was the claim that it would be changing the nature of marriage. If he'd read his bloody Augustine he might still be opposed to gay marriage, but he wouldn't make quite such idiotic claims, because Augustine is very well aware that marriage is at least partly a social construct which has changed rather a lot over time, as has the definition of what is virtuous behaviour in marriage. And it's not like Augustine is a bleeding heart liberal who thinks that anything goes sexually!

Of course, it also made me want to ask him if polygamy was now OK. It's in the Bible, after all...