‘Why I blessed gay clergymen’s relationship’
Posted on June 18, 2008
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Robustly heterosexual since early adolescence, unable to see that any love surpasses the love of women, and once branded by the odious Daily Mail as ‘Dud the Stud’, I may seem miscast in the role into which I have now been thrust, that of the turbulent rebellious priest who defies bishop and archbishop to bless two gay men, also priests, in their civil partnership.
Yet there is a sense in which I have been moving towards this point for more than thirty years. The 1970s shaped my thinking. …
– Dr. Martin Dudley, the Rector of St Bartholomew the Great in the City of London, explains his actions to New Statesman.
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