My own personal opinion is that she should do one or the other.
Now she's been outed there's no way she can stand in a pulpit and preach the opposite of what she herself does in private. It's hypocrisy if she continues to swing whilst telling people they should follow the ten commandments and her faith not supporting sex out of wedlock etc etc.
Let's face it her congregation can hardly take her seriously now, or can they?
Being a Christian and being a swinger is not really hypocrisy as it's just a belief system where you can jettison some elements. But it's true hypocrisy to tell other people not to do something that you yourself do regularly and get enjoyment from.
Swinger is fine by me.
Vicar is fine by me.
A swinging vicar is not fine with me.
Hypocrites are much further up my scale of fuckwits than are vicars.
oh i dont actually care or feel i would judge her, i dont care to.
but i understand why those who are christians would feel hurt by this, and her congragation.
i would NOT however vote, post, campaing to support what she has done, as the op was requesting.
just cuse im a swinger dont mean i have the same values,morals or opinions as every other memebre here and i dont see why us as swingers shoud feel we would support somone who has hurt people and their faith, just cuse we are swingers.
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the current teaching of the church is that you have one life long partner of the oposite sex, ok there is divorce but you still only have sex with one person during any one period of your life. This means swinging is outside the jurisdiction of christians. Christians profess to believe the whole of the bible not just the bits that suit them, however they interpret it.
To stand up for that belief and do the oposite is hypocritical. To be in a place of authority within the church you cannot tell people to do one thing and do the opposite yourself.
The whole Church thing is very opewn to evolution - Maybe this Vicar is enlightened and a veritable Christian pioneer.
"What! You didn't did you", "And on the alter too, I hope you wiped up after the three of you, it is so sticky isn't it"
how so???
i dont understand your point!!
To be fair I was not aware of it either. I just Googled it and was not sure if was right or wrong.
As I have said I am not really bothered about religion, as it seems to cause more problems than it solves.
What people want to do in their private lives as long as it is legal, should have no bearing on their day job. But then we live in a world of hypocrits I suppose.
Here's what the Bible says about swinging...
"in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you, for this sums up the Law and the Prophets." Matthew 7:12
to me a vicar that swings is not different to a doctor that smokes! but do they name and shame smoking doctors? not that ive ever heard of ;)