A Senior minister of a Sydney Anglican parish has made an extraordinary attack on the High Court judge Michael Kirby, warning he would face the wrath of God if he remained unrepentant as a gay man. Sydney's openly gay High Court Judge Michael Kirby The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the rector of St Stephen's Church in Bellevue Hill, the Reverend Richard Lane, denounced the judge for calling himself a Christian Anglican while living in an openly gay relationship and warned as a "messenger, watchman and steward of the Lord in the Anglican Church of Australia", he faced God's judgment. To call himself a Christian Anglican was a "perversion of truth" and to continue to do so without changing his lifestyle would brand him, like Herod, a "coward, a liar, a deceiver" and a "lawless one". "I appeal to you to cast yourself on the mercy of Jesus … That is admit your sin, confess your wrongdoing and turn in humble repentance to the Lord Jesus, who alone can forgive you," Lane stated. The attack came in an exchange of letters between the priest and the judge, revealed to the Herald by Justice Kirby. Lane's interpretation of biblical injunctions against homosexuality is not a universal one, argues Justice Kirby, and the biblical quotations used were unreliable mid-19th century translations. Lane appeared to have turned a blind eye to the "central loving message of Jesus of the gospels". "To defy modern knowledge and to stick to uninformed interpretations is truly irrational. To do so selectively is specially so. It is a reason why the churches are losing rational adherents." This story continues in the Sydney Morning Herald, linked below.