Alan Wilson, Bishop of Buckingham in the Church of England, responds to a letter he received in his post titled "Letter to a Saloon Bar Moralist".
Jesus also taught us to beware the leaven of the Pharisees within and
among ourselves. Indeed, whilst he said absolutely nothing about what we
call homosexuality (hardly surprising, since the concept was not
defined until 1892) he said an enormous amount about using the law to
lay burdens on others harder than they could bear, not treating others
as you would have them treat you, failing to see the human being in need
for the child of God they are, erecting the small matters of the law
into crucial shibboleths that confound the purpose of the law, thinking
that searching the scriptures in itself will bring life, supposing that
people were made for the sabbath not the sabbath for people, and so I
could go on. St John tells us that it is futile to think that we are
loving the God we have never seen, if we do not love towards the person
we have seen.
Read the letter in its entirety. As I said, it is excellent.
