Top 14 Quotes & Sayings by John Sentamu

What do you do with people in same-sex relationships that are committed, loving and Christian? Would you rather bless a sheep and a tree, and not them?

Would we be a better society if we made marriage simply a private contract between two individuals, with no wider implications of kinship and family? I do not believe that we would.

What a fantastic honour to be given the opportunity to write a column in the first ever 'Sunday Sun.'

The virtue of the civil partnerships scheme lay in the attempt to treat the needs of gay and lesbian couples as what they are, not to bundle them into some other category.

Child abuse is a heinous and personally damaging crime; it is therefore incumbent on the Church to treat such matters with the utmost seriousness.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes, and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

Marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. I don't think it is the role of the state to define what marriage is.

The Gospel offers forgiveness for the past, new life for the present, and hope for the future.

If the rights of civil partners are met differently in law to those of married couples, there is no discrimination in law, and if civil partnerships are seen as somehow 'second class' that is a social attitude which will change and cannot, in any case, be turned around by redefining the law of marriage.

There is a difference between civil partnerships and marriage. That difference does not mean one is better than another.

To a bystander like me, those who made 190 million pounds deliberately underselling the shares of HBOS, in spite of its very strong capital base, and drove it into the bosom of Lloyds TSB Bank, are clearly bank robbers and asset strippers.

Multiculturalism has seemed to imply, wrongly for me, let other cultures be allowed to express themselves but do not let the majority culture at all tell us its glories, its struggles, its joys, its pains.

Marriage is built around complementarity of the sexes and therefore the institution of marriage is a support for stable families and societies.

As the week's events on reality television demonstrate, there is an ugly underbelly in society only too ready to point the finger at the foreigner, or those who might not fit in. [on celeb big brother