Rowan Williams: gay couples reflect the love of God

This could be a bit mischievous: this is not something that Rowan Williams has just recently said/written, rather it's about 7 years old and it was well-known what his views were on the matter, so this is nothing new at all but the timing could be difficult. What gets my interest, however, is the lead sentence: "Gay relationships can 'reflect the love of God' in a way that is comparable to marriage, according to the Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams."Because I think that this is one of the main disquieting observations for those who hold to the 'modified' traditional evangelical approach (creation mandate rooted in Gn.2:28 etc). If we take seriously 1Jn4:16 "So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them." It's a sentence used in wedding services in Anglican churches, and it challenges us as we look on committed, faithful, gay relationships where love is clearly present at the heart. Can we truly say that there is nothing of God in this? And if there is, how should we honour it and nurture it? This is the real hard case for the 'traditional' view, imho. By repudiating certain acts, there is a danger of repudiating and destroying that which is genuinely of God and if Jesus is about not putting out a smoldering wick or not breaking a bruised reed ...
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