From The Daily Mail-Opponents of gay marriage have been likened to Christians who used the Bible to support slavery, by a senior Anglican bishop.
The Bishop of Salisbury, the Rt Rev Nicholas Holtam, suggested it was time to 'rethink' attitudes towards allowing same-sex couples to marry, as Christians did with slavery and apartheid.
He argued that attitudes towards homosexuality have changed 'considerably' over the last fifty years and that the development of gay marriage would be a 'very strong endorsement of the institution of marriage'.
In the letter to Labour peer Lord Alli, published by The Telegraph, he wrote: 'Sometimes Christians have had to rethink the priorities of the Gospel in the light of experience,' he wrote.
'Before Wilberforce, Christians saw slavery as Biblical and part of the God-given ordering of creation.
'Similarly in South Africa the Dutch Reformed Church supported apartheid because it was Biblical and part of the God-given order of creation.
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2333167/The-Rt-Rev-Nicholas-Holtam-People-oppose-gay-marriage-like-Christians-used-Bible-support-apartheid-slavery-says-senior-bishop.html
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