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Newsday.com ^ | 13 October 2003 | Martin Evans

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Protesting Gay Bishop May local Episcopal Africans fight against ordination

By Martin Evans Staff Writer

October 13, 2003

As Mass ended Sunday at Amityville's St. Mary's Episcopal Church, congregants lingered to pump the pastor's hand as if he were a returning hero.

That is because the Rev. Randolph Jon Geminder was among nearly 2,700 conservative Episcopal leaders who met in Dallas last week to repudiate the leaders of the Episcopal Church U.S.A., for ordaining an openly gay Episcopal bishop for the first time.

"To have a church leader who has divorced his wife to live with a man... and he's going to be teaching in the church?" said Everton Gibson, 61, a Barbados-born contractor. "It's against anything in the Bible."

St. Mary's 300-member congregation reflects an emerging center of gravity in world Anglicanism today, in that most are of African heritage, and hold strong views that homosexual lifestyles should not be condoned within the church hierarchy, Geminder and other church officials say. The Anglican Church in Nigeria has more than five times as many members as the United States.

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"I think we have to remember, homosexuality is not a sin, but acting on it is," said Geminder, a white priest who presides over a congregation that has grown increasingly Caribbean-born during his 27 years there. "The normative state for an unmarried Christian is celibacy, and anything outside of that falls short of God's will. That's scriptural."

Is Newsday a conservative news source? My father said much the same a couple of months ago but his local (liberal) paper deliberately misquoted him, changing "homosexual activity is a sin" into "homosexuality is a sin."

[NYer]

Is Newsday a conservative news source?

Absolutely not! Newsday is out to destroy any and all religions that deny the PC crowd. They will and have attacked any and all religions that do not conform to what's 'popular'.

[ahadams2]

You wrote "Is Newsday a conservative news source? My father said much the same a couple of months ago but his local (liberal) paper deliberately misquoted him, changing "homosexual activity is a sin" into "homosexuality is a sin." "

Yep Newsday is relatively conservative. I also have it from someone who was there, that one of the prinicpal folks at Plano gave a newspaper interview where they did the was editted in exactly the same way your father's was.

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er, not to conflict with NYer, but I should qualify my classifying Newsday as relatively conservative - what I've seen of it is conservative, but then I'm getting stuff other people picked up on first so I simply may not have seen the articles to which she is referring.

[dangus]

Is Newsday a conservative news source?

Definitely not. There may not be a more anti-Christian newspaper in the country.

[dangus]

>> Definitely not. There may not be a more anti-Christian newspaper in the country.

Maybe, maybe, the Village Voice.