Appeasement or Truth?

from Stand Firm by Jackie

Justin Welby, the Archbishop of Canterbury is set to meet with renowned atheist and avid homosexual advocate, Peter Tatchell.  Mr. Tatchell’s penchance for expanding boundaries has evidently invaded his vocabulary.

Homophobia has come to mean more than an irrational fear for gay people. It includes support for anti-gay discrimination and the denial of equal rights to people who are LGBT. In this sense of the word, you are homophobic because you support discrimination in law against gay people,” he added.

The ABC’s statement about the encounter seems to give a nod to both sides of the aisle.

Welby recently said that his stance on gay relationships has been challenged by the love and commitment he has seen his gay friends display, but backed the official Anglican position that marriage is solely between a man and a woman.
“The Church of England holds very firmly, and continues to hold to the view, that marriage is a lifelong union of one man to one woman,” Welby has said. “At the same time, at the heart of our understanding of what it is to be human is the essential dignity of the human being.”

My response would have been different.  It would have centered more on pointing out that atheists are Christphobic.

Will Mr. Welby remember that he is charged with being a guardian of the faith?

Or is this the first step towards reinstating the British Policy of Appeasement?

Only time will tell.