Outrageous: Tony Blair says Pope must rethink 'entrenched' views on gays

Ruth Gledhill of the UK Times:

Former Prime Minister Tony Blair has made the case for a rethink on conservative religious attitudes to homosexuals. Read our story in The Times today. In an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, Tony Blair says he wants to urge religious figures everywhere, including the Pope, to reinterpret their religious texts to see them as metaphorical, not literal. He predicts that in time this will make all religious groups accept gay people as equals. He also believes there is a change of heart taking place in evangelicalism, with many younger evangeliclas becoming pro-gay, that the issue with evangelicals and Catholics is 'generational'. We already knew the Blair family did not abide by the Church's teaching on contraception and it seems Blair's conversion has not changed this. Interesting that many converts become more conservative than those born to a faith or denomination, but Tony Blair has stuck by his liberal principles.

Time to let that conversion sink in a little deeper, Mr. Blair.