Christ never criticised homosexuals

From the Salisbury Journal, first published Friday 6th Jan 2006.

ANDREW Lunt (Postbag, December 22) complained that Canon Jeremy Davies' civil partnership decision had soured lives and impeded his faith's spread.

The founder of this faith, whose birth we have lately celebrated, taught compassion and forgiveness, exemplified by parables, healed the sick and proclaimed a way of life transcending those of the established religious and civil powers.

He fulminated against child cruelty, poured scorn on false pride, ostentation, arrogance, commercialism and social evils, and went at last unflinchingly to his doom at the hands of those he had exposed.

Yet nowhere in the accounts given by his four saintly biographers is there any record of disapproval of same-sex partnerships, of whose presence he must well have been aware. Any present-day souring can only come from the pharisaical mindset, which now, as then, ossifies religion and denies it room for growth and freedom of expression.

RICHARD HARVEY, Folkestone Road, Salisbury

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