Wednesday, September 24, 2003
Read the restOne of the country’s leading Old Testament scholars told 2,000 evangelicals yesterday that the liberal acceptance of homosexuals in the Anglican Church was merely ancient paganism in another guise.
Dr Gordon Wenham, Professor of Old Testament studies at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education, said that evangelicals should not be intimidated by “the charge of being old-fashioned”.
“It is the so-called liberals who are really taking us back to the Dark Ages,” he said.