Russell Brand

So really, I don't think I can add to anything that I've already said publicly, other than acknowledging that, of course, there would be interest in such heinous allegations so publicly made.

Long before becoming Christian because it's pretty obvious really even outside of, other than from the perspective of a deliberately pagan, hedonic, epicurean kind of perspective, it's sort of really obvious that it's wrong to treat sex as leisure.

I think everyone knows there's something sacred about it.

It's the desacralization, perhaps, that's most significant.

There are perhaps particularities around sex.

I'm still trying to understand.

Like, does it create a heightened state?

Is intimacy in a sexual state of some special quality?

Is there an argument for the sanctification of sex?

Is sex a sacrament outside of marriage?

Clearly, particularly within the Catholic faith, sex is for a man and woman in a marriage, period.

No further discussion available on that subject.

I'm really interested in sort of trying to understand with you a kind of hierarchy of sin because when I talk to gay people, because I'm living in America, I'm attending a pretty great church and...

i know it no i don't know it sometimes seems to me that there's a not explicit but sort of agreed upon hierarchy when it comes to sexual sin okay and the way it appears to work from the outside at least is that there's a special condemnation for same-sex relationships even if it were like loving partnerships that are tantamount to the type of partnership that you would recognize as marriage aside from the

Christian origins of Christian marriage and it being a sacrament, like a partnership, a bonded, committed, loving partnership.

See, the way that I feel it and experience it is I can understand.

I understand it from a mosaic and decalogue perspective that

If you're worshipping anything ahead of God, if you're putting anything ahead of God, you've gone real wrong.

You're really out of whack.

And I can see how if you are a heterosexual person or a gay person and sex has become paramount in your identity, paramount in your behaviour, something that you're pursuing.