- Tim Farron says he acted "foolishly and wrongly" when he said homosexuality was not a sin.
- The former Lib Dem leader was pressed on his Christian views during the general election campaign.
- "There I things I said, including that, which I regret," he told Christian Radio on Wednesday.
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Tim Farron says he regrets saying gay sex is not a sin
The former Liberal Democrat leader told Christian Radio that he was not honest about his views on homosexuality during the snap election campaign.
LONDON — Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has said he regrets saying that homosexual sex is not sinful during the campaign leading up to the snap general election.
Farron, the MP for Westmorland and Lonsdale, spent much of the campaign under the spotlight for his Christian views on homosexuality and cited scrutiny of his religious beliefs as the reason for his resignation shortly following the vote.
He told the Guardian before the June election that he did not believe homosexual sex was sinful after being pressed on an interview he did in 2015 in which he said "w
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"There are things I said, including that, which I regret," he said.
"There was a sense in which I felt 'look, I've got to get this off my table' because the issue is a general election with a great opportunity for the Liberal Democrats. The Labour Party at that point was nosediving and the Tory Party looked like it was arrogantly assuming it was going to get a 100 seat majority. What an opportunity for us.
"And all they wanted to do was talk about my Christian beliefs and what it actually meant and all the rest of it. I, foolishly and wrongly, attempted to push it away by giving an answer that frankly was not right."
Watch Farrons interview with Christian Radio from 5 minutes:
Tim Farron on gay sex remarks, Christians in politics and more
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