Posted on 11/14/2003 10:50:34 AM PST by FlyLow
"How dare we in this country spend $87 billion on war when 44 million people have no health insurance? ... It's up to the church to lead on some of these moral issues," asked Vicky Gene Robinson, newly-ordained homosexual Episcopal bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire. Delivering his first sermon as bishop in the diocese's All Saints Church, the same church where he married his wife before divorcing her and abandoning their two children to pursue a homosexual lifestyle, Robinson said that he wants bring God's message of love to "those on the margins," adding that Jesus "looked at the religious establishment of his day and realized they had closed their eyes to those on the margins."
Apparently the expenditure of $87 billion in the liberation of Afghanistan (where women were regularly beaten or publicly executed for the mildest violation of Islamic law, such as showing their faces) and the liberation of Iraq (where people were normally fed feet first into industrial shredders for crossing a deranged autocrat and his sons) do not qualify as reaching out "to those on the margins." We might also note that homosexuals didn't fare too well under Taliban or Ba'athist rule, either.
In better news, the U.S. Catholic Bishops this week gave near-unanimous support to a statement affirming that marriage should be a relationship between one man and one woman, entitled, "Between Man and Woman: Questions and Answers About Marriage and Same-Sex Unions." Explained Bishop J. Kevin Boland of the Diocese of Savannah, Georgia, "Marriage is in crisis and will be further eroded unless we're strong in pointing out that same-sex unions are not the equivalent of marriage." Exactly so!
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