Piers Morgan and Archbishop of York clash over gay marriage on Good Morning Britain

A heated debate over LGBT discrimination erupted between journalist Piers Morgan and the Archbishop of York on Good Morning Britain this morning (June 15).

The Archbishop, John Sentamu, was on the show to discuss the EU referendum, but the discussion understandably turned to the Orlando massacre.

Morgan asked the bishop about the church’s attitude towards LGBT discrimination, comparing its anti-equal marriage stance to racial discrimination.

“What if I said to you that you can come to this country as a Ugandan-born man but because of the colour of your skin you can only have a civil partnership, you can’t have a real one?”

Sentamu was visibly annoyed as he replied: “This is the trouble I have with the people who argue that the question of sexuality is equal in terms of argument to the question of slavery. Some of my relations died on the ships.

“Slavery was a very wrong thing.”

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Morgan asked why the church took a strong stance against gay marriage, and the bishop explained that the churches position on marriage was that it was between a man and a woman, adding: “I support civil partnerships because for me that’s a matter of equality, a matter of fairness.”

Asked whether homosexuality was a sin, the bishop replied: “I would never say that. I will never say that because sin is doing something consciously against god.”

Watch a clip of the exchange below:

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