This isn't fair, to either gays or Christians

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I grow more and more depressed the more I watch the coverage of the great Anglican homosexuality debate, and how Christian views are being repeatedly misrepresented.

To be clear:

Gay men (and women) can become bishops and several already are so within the Anglican church

They are in exactly the same position as single straight men and women. They have to remain celibate.

Straight people currently have an option that gay people don't, which is marriage. Jesus explicitly gave marriage as the context for sex. Ergo, only married people who aspire to leading Christian communities get to shag.

The prohibition against gay Christian marriage is substantially based on a single statement of Paul's and the fact that Jesus only refers to heterosexual relationships. However in many people's minds these prohibitions aren't clear and thus bear examination with the guidance of the Spirit.

This discussion is underway in the church. Unfortunately, a rather arrogant man who left a wife and two children for another lover, enough to make him a fairly suspect candidate for a bishopric in the first place, has pushed this situation to a head.

Yes, I know that's all a lot less sensational than what we're all seeing in the news right now, but that's the mass media all over, isn't it? What really upsets me is that this sort of coverage breeds the sort of hateful hostility that oakthorne so neatly and brilliantly dissected in his recent post..