Former UK Liberal Democratic Party leader Tim Farron
LONDON, England, January 18, 2018, (LifeSiteNews) – A former leading British politician voiced his “regret” last week at having said in 2017 that homosexual sex was not sinful, betraying his Christian beliefs.
Tim Farron, an evangelical Christian, resigned as the leader of the Liberal Democrat Party in 2017 after months of journalists and politicians demanding to know his beliefs about homosexual sex. Farron finally responded to a question in Parliament as to whether or not he thought homosexuality was a sin with “I do not.” In April 2017, he told the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC), “I don’t believe gay sex is a sin.”
But he did.
Farron told interviewers at Premier Christian Radio that he had found himself in a situation in which “I either had to be compromising my faith, frankly, saying things I thought were not true, or be true to my faith and be in a situation where I sucked all the attention that ought to be going to me being the mouthpiece of the party, away from our main message.”
“I’m a committed Christian, but my job as leader of the Liberal Democrats (was)
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