Self-justifying theology
Sir: Nigel Stone is brilliant in exposing Gene Robinson’s self-justifying theology (Letters, 24 May), but the churches’ traditional repudiation of homosexuality does not stand up either. First, there is the rather obvious fact that Jesus himself appears to have been utterly indifferent to homosexual activity. Second, although St Paul condemns it, he also condemns marriage, and women who do not wear hats. Third, Jesus’s very clear statements that Scripture could never be overturned applies to all the Old Testament laws, not just the bit about homosexuality. Unless
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Christians abstain from, for example, wearing mixed-fibre clothing and eating prawns, their recourse to the Old Testament for moral guidance is as flawed and self-justifying as Robinson’s. Both Robinson and the churches would appear to be creating God in their own image.
David Jones
Amsterdam
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