Posted on 08/04/2007 9:56:17 PM PDT by monomaniac
Robinson proposes marriage of Church and State?
Gay Episcopal bishop endorses Obama
Washington DC, Aug 3, 2007 / 10:31 am (CNA).- Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the nation's first openly gay Episcopal bishop, has given his endorsement to presidential hopeful Barack Obama, citing the Illinois Democrat's experience with racism and discrimination.
Obama's campaign put out a news release announcing Robinson’s support. It identified Robinson as "a civil rights leader and a leading voice in the faith community."
The bishop says he hopes to persuade Obama to embrace same-sex marriage. Obama supports civil unions and rights for gay couples, but stops short of supporting gay marriage.
The Washington Post reported that three hours after the announcement, Welton Gaddy, president of the Interfaith Alliance, said it was "just the latest example of candidates misusing religious leaders for political gain."
Gaddy said he was sending a letter to all the presidential candidates asking them not to make endorsements that appear to be speaking on behalf of their house of worship or denomination.
"In recent presidential campaigns little concern has been in evidence about the negative consequences that certain political strategies bring about for houses of worship," Gaddy's letter reads.
Bishop Gene Robinson is a lot like Admiral Teddy Kennedy. All I have to do is find out what they are in favor of, and I know I am safe to be against it. I don’t even have to know what the issue is. It works for any subject, belief, opinion, etc.
Either they (a) have an understated sense of humor, or (b) are trying to tell us that Schadenfreude is not a sin.
Ping.
Is that a proposal?
Yeah, that'll help. Considering Obama doesn't need to place further emphasis on his geekiness, it might be smart if he'd ask Robinson's office what they'd demand in return for rescinding their endorsement.
I really love it when left-wing candidates embrace far left politics! It’s all good for us!
And vice-versa!
Sounds like an ideal match for Obama. I hope he flaunts his endorsement as much as he does his life "as a gay man". Should do wonders for Obama in a general election.
The headline almost sounds like a tabloid.
Hugs all around Obama. We’ll be waiting for the pics.
To bad he didn’t endorse Cassius er Hillary!
Obama will take anything he can get, because he’s got nothin’.
He graduated from a prodigious college and blah, blah, blah. So what? He is a full on, moron, and he comes off as some starry-eyed child spewed forth from some socialist hell.
He gets a lot of endorsements and speaks at a lot of churches and then while at the church prattles about separation of church and state and all is well. His home church “the church of blackness”, as I call it seems more concerned with advancing all things African or black and very little to do with the things of God.
I recall not long ago he was prattling on about, “what his Bible says” and defending abortion among other things. His level of obtuseness couldn’t possibly be instinctive or innate.
No, one doesn’t reach his level of anserine cecity without the benefit of complete, indoctrinating immersion into some meaningless studies program at IVY League U. What is scary is he has quite a bit of support. What is even scarier is that he nearly manages to make “herself” appear moderate.
In this case, I see the other way around: the 'religious leader' is using the politician for his own agenda.
The Church says “These people have a disordered Mentality”.
This article is Proof Positive.
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What kind of nut attends the Episcopal church in NH? It’s the church of God, run by a sodomite? Absurd, morality upside down.
What kind of site is CNA?
The homepage has an ad for Obama and other pro Obama links.
Is this one of George $oreA$$’s so called Catholic sites, which aren’t really Catholic?
http://www.catholicnewsagency.com/new.php?n=10039
Of course if a religious figure publicly endorsed a Republican, the screams from the liberals of “separation of church and state” and the demand to end tax exemptions would be deafening...
This does not surprise me at all!!!
It is very much in character that “Selfish Gene” Robinson has aligned himself with Barack Hussein Obama, the “stealth candidate”.
Obama’s chief foreign policy advisor is the arch-Serbophobic “human rightser” from Harvard’s Kennedy School, Samantha Power:
http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/08/03/campaign_memo_barack_obama_was_1.html
From this choice of advisors, we must conclude that Obama favors “humanitarian intervention”, especially to aid the cause of international islamic conquest. We must conclude that Obama is Serbopobic, Russophobic, and anti-Orthodox Christian.
We must also conclude that those who are weary of imperial foreign interventions would get NO RESPITE whatsoever under a President Obama, with Power as his Secretary of State. Indeed, they would get an unending series of such adventures, clinton on steroids, aimed at undermining Judeo-Christian civilization. At home, they would get more of the same (e.g., “gay rights”, hate-crime laws, accelerating Third World immigration.) This could only end in DISASTER!!!!
Has anyone contacted the IRS about this blatant political activity by a representative of the Episcopal Church?
Pull their tax-exempt status!
The one's who've moved here from MA. and have turned it into a s**thole.
Bishop Robinson does not speak for the ECUSA. He speaks for the Gay Episcopal Church of the USA. Whether or not the GECUSA manages to take over the ECUSA remains to be seen.
You accord V. Gene Robinson way too much influence. The stresses and tears in the fabric preceded his "elevation" to bishop by decades, and even the latter event was not a unilateral effort; his electorate did not include the many who've left PECUSA/ECUSA/TEC/whatever-they-are-today in the 60s and 70s and since.
Those still in that church who were shocked by this were not paying attention -- whether deliberately ("we're safe here") or shielded from events is another matter.
They took over some years ago...
It's clear to me that in this case Vicky Gene is misusing political candidates for political gain. This should (but probably won't) cost TEC their tax exempt status.
Mr. Gaddy is either seriously confused or deliberately dissembling. Either one is cause for concern.
Yes, that would be Vicky Imogene "Gene" Robinson. (His parents had been counting on having a girl, the baby wasn't expected to survive, and so the parents gave that name to the doctor for the birth and death certificates.)
Religion Roundup
Gay Episcopal Bishop Endorses ObamaCONCORD, N.H. - The Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop has endorsed Senator Barack Obama for president. Bshop V. Gene Robinson says Obama has been "enormously supportive" on gay issues, including civil unions. Robinson says if he has the chance, he'll urge Obama to support gay marriage as well.
The bishop says the Obama campaign contacted him to ask for his support.
But he stressed that his endorsement is as an individual, not as bishop. For that reason, Robinson says he won't talk "about the campaign from the pulpit or at any church function."
The continuing repercussions from Robinson's 2003 election as bishop of New Hampshire threaten to break up the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church is part.
Obama's campaign put out a news release announcing Robinson’s support. It identified Robinson as "a civil rights leader and a leading voice in the faith community."
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