Senior members of the Sydney Anglican Diocese have criticised Anglican Primate Peter Carnley for suggesting the church could bless monogamous, lifelong sexual relationships, both homosexual and de facto. In a paper prepared for July's General Synod discussion on homosexuality, Dr Carnley challenges the church to think anew about friendship. If it means the Christian faith has nothing to say about what you do in your bedroom about sexual behavior, he must be kidding.
Sexual behavior is a crucial part of human behavior.
The Christian faith has crucial things to say about work, how we earn money, how we treat other people, our sex lives. However a member of the doctrinal panel which prepared the discussion papers for the General Synod, South Australian Reverend Cathy Thomson, commended the paper. It is clearly innovative, in asking the church whether it ought to be looking at people's intimate relationships, both heterosexual and homosexual, a little bit differently than we have in the past. It suggests the church shouldn't be asking details of how, or when, sexual expression takes place. And I say it is God's business, and if you think you are following God you can't hide in the bedroom, He is all seeing and all knowing.