Posted on 08/18/2008 4:15:55 PM PDT by wagglebee
CANTERBURY, UK, August 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Gene Robinson has castigated a fellow Anglican bishop for publicly disapproving of his crusade to inculcate "gay" values into the Anglican Communion. In an interview with SXNews, an Australian homosexual news website festooned with explicit sexual advertising, Robinson complained that the Sydney archdiocese is "bigoted" because its archbishop, Dr. Peter Jensen, boycotted the Lambeth conference, held this month in Canterbury, England.
Gene Robinson is the active homosexual whose consecration as Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire caused a crisis in the global Anglican Communion. He called the Sydney archbishop's defence of Christianity "ironic" given that Sydney is considered one of the "great gay cities of the world."
Archbishop Jensen was one of those who, instead of Lambeth, attended instead the Global Anglican Future Conference (GAFCON). Convened in Jerusalem and attended by almost a third of the world's Anglican bishops, GAFCON was conceived as an alternative to Lambeth, as a venue for discussion among those Anglican leaders who continue to hold to Christian moral and scriptural ideas.
Robinson has made himself the leading spokesman of the homosexualist doctrine that homosexuality is a "God-given" condition that must be accepted by Christianity. In the lengthy interview, Robinson said he was unhappy about being "cast in the role of single issue person" and was angry that he had not been invited to Lambeth.
"Gay people have been abused, really, by the church," he said, "and just mindlessly suggesting that they go back is like telling an abused spouse to go back to her husband."
"But what I say is that God and the church aren't the same thing. The church has gotten this and many other things wrong. God hasn't gotten it wrong," he said.
Despite Robinson's persistent claims of persecution, the homosexualist viewpoint is well represented in the Anglican Communion and was prominent at Lambeth. Robinson was in Canterbury during the three week Conference, giving interviews and lectures on his ideas for a new "gay" Christianity. He was the centre of the work of homosexual activists who had made Lambeth a showcase of homosexualist political and quasi-religious campaigning.
Other bishops, particularly those who had decided not to boycott, were outraged at the "in your face" nature of the homosexual lobbying at the Conference.
One bishop of the Global South group said, "They are intent to push their agenda on us. No other lobbying groups seem to enjoy similar access, or to be able to have their literature prominently displayed all over the campus and at the entrance to every residence. They are determined that their way is the only right way and that everyone else should follow."
The Bishop of Egypt, North Africa, and the Horn of Africa, the Rt. Rev. Mouneer Anis, spoke of his disgust at the blatant "advocacy of unscriptural practices" going on at the Conference and called the sexual obsessions of the liberal faction, "a new form of slavery: a slavery to modern secular culture and to immoral desires and lusts."
Anis said, "Everywhere we go here, we meet gay & lesbian activists, receive their news letters or read about their many events. Many seem to be supported by North American churches."
In a statement to the media, Anis said, "I see a great wall being put up by revisionists against those orthodox who believe in the authority of Scripture."
"The revisionists among us push upon us the view that current secular culture and not the Bible should shape our mission and morals. In this we are not divided by mere trivialities, or issues on the periphery of faith but on essentials. I am shocked to say that we are finding it very hard to come together on even the essentials of the faith we once received from the Apostles."
In the end, newspapers who had been covering the Lambeth conference, concluded that those in attendance had made no progress towards resolving the conflicts that are tearing the Anglican Communion apart. Currently there are about 77 million members of the Communion, the great majority of whom live in areas represented by the Global South bishops. In the western and more "liberal" areas, the Anglican churches are dying out with shrinking and aging congregations and a crisis over what to do with the buildings.
Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
No Hope for a Return to Orthodox Christianity from Lambeth: US Traditional Anglican Leader
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08071714.html
Female Anglican Bishop at Lambeth Conference Accuses Fellow Bishops of Wife Beating
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/jul/08073007.html
Chaos at Canterbury: Rowan Williams Said to Have "Betrayed" Church
http://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2008/aug/08080105.html
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Wrong.
“new “gay” Christianity”
Revelations warns that if Christians don’t stay on their toes and know scripture that the very elect will be deceived. Homosexuality is recognized in the Bible as a sin. Robinson doesn’t believe in the Bible and stands ready to deceive the elect with his “gay” Christianity. Shameful!
It is a God Cursed condition. NO unrepentant sinner has a place leading any church function. We are all sinners yes, the difference is knowing God, and repenting of our sins.
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The Muslims shut it down in fairly short order.
The losers in this were Muslims.
Sorry about that. Meant to post to “all.”
Awwhhh. Poor Gene. He wiggles his way into being a gas bishop and then wonders why Episcopalians don’t like him. Hmmm. Could it be because he has polluted the Episcopal Church?
He certainly seems to whine a lot. Maybe he’ll take his balls and go home.
The only resolution is a split, the sooner the better, or for the gays to repent and come to God, or apostasize and leave the church.
No, He hasn't!
Lev 20:13 If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Gen 18:20 And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous;
Gen 18:21 I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me; and if not, I will know.
Gen 19:12 And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place:
Gen 19:13 For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it.
"Gay people have been abused, really, by the church," he said, "and just mindlessly suggesting that they go back is like telling an abused spouse to go back to her husband."
So don't go back Gene. I am not at all sure it is not your intent to destroy Christianity...you'll hang around just long enough to bleed it dry and get rid of those cranky Scripture-believing Christians.
Some time ago I read an excellent analysis by a FReeper. She said some aggressive gays are forcing their beliefs on society in the hope that if everyone becomes welcoming, it will silence the little voice in their heads that says what they are doing is wrong. It won't.
As with abortion, no matter how you spin it, the sin itself is a crime against nature. It's that simple.
I feel terribly sorry for Gene and moreso for his family that his selfishness has impacted. That is why homosexuality cannot be squared with Christianity. One is rooted in self-love, pride, and and lust; Christ is all about selflessness, humility, and sacrifice.
Did he stamp his feet and hold his breath?
By emphasizing the term “Anglican” vs. “Episcopalian”, the author is enabling Robinson’s agenda. Robinson would love to see his view of theology broadly attributed to vibrant global Anglicanism rather than a few dead Western churches. I wonder whether the author, Hilary White, (or the LifeSite editor) was conscious of this when choosing her words for the article?
V. Gene: Run to a room with this on the door.
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