JOHN SHELBY SPONG, recently retired Episcopal bishop of Newark, is not letting the grass grow under his feet.
He’s reinventing himself as the bishop of cybersex.
Spong, ever the controversialist, has agreed to write a column about religion and sexuality for ThePosition.com, a Manhattan-based sex Web site launching June 5.
His first piece asks whether the Ten Commandments – which he once described as “immoral” – are sexually biased against women.
Jack Heidenry, a former Penthouse and Maxim editor who heads the new site, described ThePosition.com as “a magazine that covers sexuality from top to bottom.”
There will be nude pictures on the site, and porn star/producer Candida Royale will be among its columnists. Yet Heidenry insists that the site, which is owned by the yet-to-open Museum of Sex, will “not be hard-core. It’s a very upscale magazine.”
Of course. Whoever heard of an Episcopal bishop slumming in louche quarters?
Spong, 69, who is spending the spring at Harvard, confirmed his participation in the site yesterday, but said he didn’t want to comment further. . . .
By ROD DREHER
