Runcie ordained homosexuals

LONDON - Lord Runcie, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, has admitted he knowingly ordained practising homosexuals and commented…

LONDON - Lord Runcie, a former Archbishop of Canterbury, has admitted he knowingly ordained practising homosexuals and commented that the church's position on their ordination is "ludicrous".

But he immediately qualified his reply in a radio interview: "I have not knowingly ordained anyone who told me they were a practising homosexual and were living with someone as if it were a marriage - in fact I have halted an ordination when I discovered that."

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