John Sentamu Professions : Cleric Born : June 10, 1949 Browse All Authors Top 13 quotes by John Sentamu The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future. John Sentamu hope-for-the-future new-life past To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers. John Sentamu bystanders hbo strong Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains. John Sentamu other-cultures pain struggle What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them? John Sentamu christian sheep sex What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.' John Sentamu sunday writing opportunity The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category. John Sentamu gay couple needs Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies. John Sentamu institutions support sex Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is. John Sentamu roles men thinking As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother John Sentamu events brother reality Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness. John Sentamu abuse church children If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage. John Sentamu marriage change law attitude There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another. John Sentamu partnerships better marriage mean Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would. John Sentamu marriage family society believe Similar Authors Abu Bakar Bashir cleric William Crashaw cleric Salman al-Ouda cleric All Authors
