Oh what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to
deceive. At least I think that’s how it goes. It certainly
applies to John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York, who’s been caught telling
porkies.
“There is joy in heaven when a sinner repents, so they say,”
intones the Guardian. “But the
archbishop seems quite unrepentant. He might have graciously said: ‘We were
wrong about civil partnerships. Now we see the error of our ways and would like
to celebrate the honourable estate of civil partnership.’ Rather, he makes a
claim that is not only false, but whose falsehood is quite easily checked in
Hansard.”
It seems – and you can read the full story there – that he
said bishops in the House of Lords, where 26 of them have an automatic right to
sit, just because they’re bishops, were in favour of civil partnerships, but
their voting record says otherwise.
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