Rowan Williams, Primate of the Church of England and de facto chief of the worldwide Anglican communion wrote in his 1989 lecture, “The Body’s Grace“
“… if we are looking for a sexual ethic that can be seriously informed by our Bible, there is a good deal to steer us away from assuming that reproductive sex is a norm, however important and theologically significant it may be…. If we are afraid of facing the reality of same-sex love because it compels us to think through the processes of bodily desire and delight in their own right, perhaps we ought to be more cautious about appealing to Scripture as legitimating only procreative heterosexuality.”
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