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[Pink News] 18 Apr 2007--The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused anti-gay conservative Christians of misinterpreting a key biblical passage written by Saint Paul almost 2,000 years ago.
Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the world's 77 million Anglicans, is on a visit to Canada.
Speaking to theology students in Toronto, he said that the Biblical passage most commonly used to condemn homosexuality, an extract from Saint Paul's Epistle to the Romans, was in fact meant to warn Christians not to be self-righteous in the face of others' sin.
"Many current ways of reading miss the actual direction of the passage," Williams said on Monday, according to Reuters.
"Paul is making a primary point not about homosexuality but about the delusions of the supposedly law-abiding," he added.
His comments constituted a direct attack on conservative bishops who have been using the Bible to try to force pro-gay Anglican communities, particularly in the United States and Canada, out of the Anglican Communion.
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