Robust responses to ‘low blow’ of leaked Williams letters

NINETEEN senior bishops, led by the Bishop of Durham, Dr Tom Wright, have protested in a strongly worded letter about what they describe as the “gross misrepresenta­tion” of the Arch­bishop of Canter­bury in The Times. Under the front-page headline “Archbishop believes gay sex is as good as marriage”, and the inside headline that said that he believed it “equivalent to marriage”, extracts were published on Thursday of last week from leaked private corres­pondence, exchanged eight years ago between Dr Williams as Archbishop of Wales and Dr Deborah Pitt, a psychiatrist and Evangelical who had sought his views on sexuality. In the letters, he reflected on 20 years of study and prayer, which had led him to conclude that “an active sexual relationship between two people of the same sex might there­fore reflect the love of God in a... [read full story]