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Richard Coles (Ian West/PA)
The Reverend Richard Coles has called for an end to conversion therapy.
Speaking during an excerpt for BBC programme Morning Live, which will be broadcast on Thursday, the broadcaster said the practice, which attempts to change someone’s sexual orientation or gender identity, causes “untold misery”.
Last month, the Government announced in the Queen’s Speech that measures would be brought forward to ban conversion therapy.
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Coles said he always took his own homosexuality as “a given that I had no choice over at all”.
“I’m a priest of the Church of England and I’m also gay and for me that’s never been a problem,” he said.
Richard Coles was reprimanded by the church after Have I Got News For You slot
Richard Coles (Ian West/PA)
The Reverend Richard Coles says he was once reprimanded by the church after letting out a “bad word” on the panel show Have I Got News For You.
The broadcaster is trying his hand at stand-up comedy for Stand Up And Deliver, a new two-part series on Channel 4 in support of Stand Up To Cancer.
However, he said he would avoid foul language in his routines or risk disciplinary action, according to the Clergy Discipline Measure.
David Baddiel is training Reverend Richard Coles for the show (Jacob King/PA)