Bishop of Liverpool apologises for opposing gay cleric

http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,,2252616,00.html

[Guardian Unlimited] 5 Feb 2008--One of the country's most senior bishops has argued that the Bible sanctions same-sex relationships, using the bonds between Jesus and John the disciple, and David and Jonathan as examples.

The Bishop of Liverpool, the Right Rev James Jones, a conservative evangelical, expressed the views in a book, A Fallible Church, in which he apologised for objecting to the appointment of the gay cleric Dr Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading. He was one of nine bishops to sign a public letter criticising the proposed consecration.

Bishop J. C. Ryle, the first Bishop of Liverpool and leading conservative Evangelical of his day, must be spinning in his grave!!