Careful… what he said was: ‘‘So far as my own involvement is concerned, you should know it is an appointment I have neither sought to promote nor to obstruct’’. I am sure that this sort of over-emphasis on a single issue with the power to split the Church is the last thing Rowan would have wanted in his first year as Archbishop, and he is being very careful to not be seen as taking sides.
It is interesting to note that he is heading to West Africa “within a few weeks” - wouldn’t you love to be a fly on the wall at the meeting between him and the Archbishop of Nigeria?
Based on information from a couple we’re acquainted with, the husband’s brother being a Nigerian bishop (not the archbishop), your conclusion is accurate – so far, of course, as one can trust third-hand information of that sort.
In a broader perspective, science and technology has liberated mankind from the bondage of sex and reproduction. Now we can have sex without the risk of reproduction.
And that is why for people who don’t opt for reproduction, all kinds of sexual combinations will become more and more accepted by them and their fellowmen, and even in religious establishments.