According to homosexual MP, Chris Bryant.

From here:

Anyone who has ever heard Jeffrey John preach, read his poetry or met him knows that he is a man of immense spirituality who should have been made a bishop years ago.

Sadly, the Church of England has got its cassocks so firmly in a twist that it seems completely incapable of coming to the same conclusion, purely and simply because he’s gay.

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But in a classic twist of English logic, the Church still maintains that it’s fine and dandy to be gay just so long as you don’t do anything about it.

Celibacy is the rule – especially for the clergy – as same-sex sex is definitely off-limits.

There are two problems with this. For a start it is a great big lie. It ludicrously pretends that Jeffrey would be the first-ever gay bishop.

But I remember terribly anguished and frighteningly closeted gay bishops in my theological college back in the Eighties. One became quite a close friend, and his relief the moment he retired and took up residence with his lover of 20 years was a sad joy to behold.

And 10 years ago a bishop asked me, in all seriousness, whether it was wrong that he had just decided that he had to appoint a straight man to a particular inner-city parish because literally every other vicar in the area was gay.

There are that many homosexual priests and bishops in the Church of England?

If it’s twisted logic to expect a homosexual priest to be celibate because his condition is a part of his nature, it must also be twisted logic to expect a sinner not to sin because his condition is a part of his nature. Welcome to the Church of Antinomianism.