He told the Synod of his diocese last week that conducting the marriage of pregnant brides was "unChristian and ungodly and unAnglican" and, therefore, banned in his diocese.

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"I think that to suggest that God might intervene to protect us from the corporate folly of our practices is as unchristian and unbiblical as to suggest that he protects us from the results of our individual folly or sin, " he said.

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