Prince Charles joins gay church debate

[davidinalameda]

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-2676.html

The British public usually expects controversial gaffes to come from Prince Philip, but now like father like son, the Prince of Wales looks set to anger the Church of England after backing the denomination’s first openly gay clergyman.

Prince Charles praised the openness of the late Harry Williams, who used his autobiography in 1982 to come out.

Writing the foreword to a new book of essays by the Anglican, Living Free, the Prince, who was at Cambridge University while Williams was a dean there, writes, "Harry Williams proved to be a star; a man of intense humanity and warmth whose humour and originality created an aura of approachability.”

[acmavm]

1. Good for Charles. The man's 'intense humanity and warmth'

are all that should really count.

As often as people bad-mouth poor Charles, he's almost ALWAYS on the right side of any issue he takes in interest in. Conservation, the poor, and now this.

I admire the man.

[melissinha]

2. Good on him

It takes a lot of guts to submit a statement like that in print.

[Tyo]

3. People bash the Royals a lot

But I've got no problem with them for the most part. While there are more than a few spoiled losers in the Windsor clan I think that the Queen does a good job and Charles strikes me as being a pretty liberal and decent guy and I think he's turned into a good father.