Southwark Clergyman writes to Bishop of Colombo about his sermon

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[Anglican Mainstream] 25 Jul 2008--Semitic society in particular, is not accepting of such attractionhowever, as an expression of our sexuality. The fact that there arecomparatively few references to such attraction in Old and NewTestaments only underlines what is clearly known about the childrenof Abraham, underlined by the Mosaic law. Jews and Arabs insist thatthe foundation stone of stable society is, that children should grow upwithin the love of the parents who conceived them. Young males mustbe encouraged towards monogamous heterosexual expression, for the sakeof the nurture of following generations, without which human societyquickly disintegrates. Of course there are good examples of adultsbringing up children not their own biologically, proved I hope in myown family let alone the Holy Family. But wherever society departsfrom this norm, it will collapse.

So I make the humble, and yet prophetic? request, that you encourageyour Province to return to the Book of Common Prayer order of thereasons for marriage, firstly, for the procreation and nurture ofchildren - within the fear of God… For too long, Anglicans havedemoted this clear Biblical understanding, for the spurious reasonthat we should not be encouraging irresponsible population growth, whenthe BCP marriage ordinance simply links procreation with nurture.