Prince Charles honors
Harry Williams
From upi.com on the
Web, October 9, 2006
LONDON, Oct. 8 -- Britain's
Prince Charles has praised the ministry of Harry Williams, the homosexual dean
of Cambridge University who died earlier this year at 86.
The prince is endorsing Williams in a forward to a new book of essays penned by
the late theologian, the Telegraph reported.
Prince Charles' admiration for Williams may be alarming to conservative bishops
who have expressed growing concern for gay clergy, the newspaper said.
In his 1982 autobiography, "Some Day I'll Find You," Williams shocked many in
the church by exposing his life as a promiscuous gay man during his days at
Cambridge University.
"I slept with several men, in each case fairly regularly," Williams wrote.
"They were all of them friends. Cynics, of course, will smile, but I have
seldom felt more like thanking God then when having sex. In bed I used to
praise Him there and then for the joy I was receiving and giving."
Prince Charles, in his new forward, speaks of Williams as "a man of intense
humanity and warmth."
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