Praying for Prince George to be gay is futile. A same-sex royal wedding would conclude LGBT bigotry no more than Prince Harry’s engagement will conclude racismA news fable would have to be pretty special to bring together the royal family and gay liberation,so well done to the Very Rev Kelvin Holdsworth, who took a hearty stab at marrying the two final week. He called on Christians to pray for Prince George to be gay in the hope that the presence of a gay king would render the Church of England’s institutional homophobia inert. It’s a remarkable reach and so naturally his fringe opinion received extensive coverage.
In his blog post – a sort of manifesto for curing the church’s homophobia – he suggests that a royal same-sex wedding “might sort things out remarkably easily”, or though he caveats this with the suggestion that such a scenario could take a quarter of a century to play out.
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Source: guardian.co.uk