Yesterday the stakes rose even higher in the present gay debate rumbling through the Anglican Church when Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams discovered a major flaw in the Biblical passage being proclaimed by conservatives all this while as part-and-parcel proof that homosexuality has no place in the faith was, well, totally wrong and being taken way out of context...

The passage, taken from Paul's Letter to the Romans, states: "Men committed indecent acts with other men and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion."

We'll admit—it had us fooled! According to Williams, however, such a reading is totally off the mark. "Paul is making a primary point not about homosexuality but about the delusions of the supposedly law-abiding," he said.

How's that for irony?

Homophobes Mis-Read the Bible, Say Bishops [GCN]