Archbishop Justin Welby Faces Backlash for Remarks on Gay Sex in Committed Relationships
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Archbishop Justin Welby Faces Backlash for Remarks on Gay Sex in Committed Relationships

Politics tamfitronics Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby received backlash after claiming that same-sex is not sinful as long as it's within a committed relationship. On "The Rest is Politics" podcast hosted by former Labour spin doctor Alastair Campbell and former Tory MP Rory Stewart, Welby was asked whether he believes gay sex was sinful, a similar question to one he had asked Archbishop Welby in a 2017 interview for GQ magazine. When asked now if he had a "better answer" to that question, Welby said he did."What the Archbishop of York and I, and the bishops, by a majority, by no means unanimous, and the Church is deeply split over this — where we've come to is to say that all sexual activity should be within a committed relationship and whether it's straight or...
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