James, the Bible and the gay question

Didn’t James do a lovely Bible reading at his sister’s wedding? I’m talking about That Wedding, of course: Catherine and William at Westminster Abbey.

James read from the book of Romans with such eloquence and emotion and clarity, he breathed 21^st century vigour into an ancient text.

So the next day I did a bit of Googling: I wanted to know more about James’s background (was he an actor? a public speaker?) and whether he might have got a bit of coaching from a friend in the church – someone like, say, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams (now there’s a man with remarkable eyebrows).

What I found was two things: a) rumblings because James read from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible rather than the King James, and b) a Google quake of gossip about whether James is gay.

So the man is good looking, well groomed, and displays some passion, emotion and possibly a sense of awe of the divine. He must be gay.

Is it really hard to tell the difference between a man who reads his Bible well and someone who is gay? And is there a tiny dab of irony in this, given the at times tense relationship the Anglican church has with homosexuality?