Good disagreement

Jayne Ozanne (3 April) is to be thanked for her wise words. Her observations about needing to find a way to move beyond our pain is so important.

I was in conversation with a mature, ordained priest who has been treated very wickedly by the CoE because he is openly gay and in a same gender marriage. The conversation became very heated when I ventured to suggest that the shared conversations, however flawed, are part of the long and painful process by means of which we might expect to see the injustices disappear.

I cannot begin to understand the pain suffered by the priest: denied the right to practise his skills: denied the possibility of preferment: made to feel an outcast in the Church to which he has devoted his life. How does he find a way to move beyond his pain?