Just watched a horrible video from the C of E Evangelical Council in response to Living Together in Faith. So you don't have to waste 32 minutes of your life, I'll share my favourite quotes and points with you.

"Over the last few years #MeToo has exposed to us all the damage that the sexual revolution - sexual promiscuity - has brought so many people in society, particularly - uh - women.”

Really? Because I thought that movement was about the damage done to women's lives through the violence they have had to suffer due to a pervading culture of toxic masculinity. Reducing it to "sexual promiscuity" lessens the impact of what the abused have had to suffer. SHAME.

And - common tactic amongst these types - it's conflating two completely separate issues, thus doing an active disservice to both. It is shockingly inappropriate for a Christian organisation to reduce #MeToo to this. SHAME.

"There is legitimate room for disagreement when it comes to, say, the role of women in ministry, but God’s good design for sex and relationships is nonnegotiable.”

I love the way this leaves the door open for continuing to put "women in their place" whilst at the same time closing it in the faces of #LGBTQI Christians. SHAME.

“There is more to Anglicanism than the West. And whatever we do in the West will have an implication on our Christians as seen especially in the Muslim world.”

So we, in the Church of England, should therefore give support to other parts of the world where LGBTQI people can be imprisoned or even killed? I guess the Good News isn't really for everyone, is it? SHAME.

"And I think what I desperately want the Church of England to understand is that if it changes the doctrine of marriage it is actually oppressing a group of LGBTQI people who have chosen to follow Jesus Christ.”

This is wrong on SO MANY levels. Firstly, I think you need to look up "oppression" in the dictionary, as I'm pretty sure it doesn't mean what you think it means.

Secondly, I am a gay man and priest who has been in a loving relationship with my partner for more than 15 years; are you suggesting that I am not following Jesus Christ? Do you have any idea how self-righteous, inappropriately judgemental, and hurtful that statement is. SHAME.

There is also a bit in which people say they will leave the C of E if things change, which seems an extraordinary response to a doc that is supposed to foster discussion, showing that they obviously had no desire to discuss anything in the first place.

They end with a kind of call to action to elect people who think like they do to General Synod. Those of us who think God's love in Jesus is for everyone should do the same.

How do I throw my hat in the ring? I'm already imagining FABULOUS rainbow campaign buttons.