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Gay clerics certain to win struggle, Right Rev Gene Robinson says

Homosexual clerics were certain to win their struggle for acceptance within the Church, the world’s first openly gay bishop told a Scottish congregration yesterday.

The Right Rev Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire, said that the worldwide Anglican Communion was eventually bound to recognise that it could not block out people who were attracted to people of the same sex. Bishop Robinson, who has become a hate figure among Christian fundamentalists because he is gay and living with another man, said: “The reason I can be calm in the middle of this particular storm is because I know how it is all going to turn out.

“It is going to end with the full inclusion of all God’s people in God’s Church. I don’t know when; it doesn’t matter when. But that is where we are headed and we must work hard to bring that Church about.” Speaking in a sermon to a packed congregation at St Mary’s Episcopal Cathedral in Glasgow, Bishop Robinson, whose ordination as bishop five years ago caused a split in the worldwide Anglican church, said that it was not for Christians to judge others.

Full story at The Times.