109 High Street, Amersham Sir: I must take serious issue
with the Dean of Wickford's letter in the June 22 issue. It is difficult to see why an alleged priest would take issue with someone *saying homosexuality is immoral. If he would have the clarity to say that one should "hate the sin and not the sinner," and "rebuke and exhort" and similar sentiments I could understand it, but as he doesn't, he is only reprehensible.
Perhaps the issue is being confused by such people as the American writer Jill Johnston who are claiming an exemption from the general run of homosexuals for a specific political purpose? Do these people realise an exception is an exception?
As to the invective of the dean's last paragraph, it is slightly misinformed. If anyone gets the impression from St Paul that widows and widowers can't remarry they are a pure and simple heretic, and the example of Abraham proves it. As for 'condoning' slavery or the death penalty for adultery, that is not exactly the issue, as Christianity is not a social system. It is a question of how people behave in a situation and what is just, not whether you always approve of something. With such simple-minded people as the dean around, no wonder people don't go to church so often, or accuse its leadership of having sold out to the Left.
Peter Sutherland 5 Nelson Street, Winchester, Mass 01890, USA
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