me too
Posted on 12/27/2015 9:31:50 AM PST by marshmallow
People in KY strongly support these “weddings”, or do they? What does Mitchell Addison McC say?
It probably was the easy way out but a lot less stress on you. You could have stayed, fought, and withheld donations for a year to see if anything could be done. But there are too many liberals to change things.
They had a tremendous Book of Common Prayer in 1928 that any Christian should be willing to use. Yea, that was 88 years ago!
For a while the Tibetans were so poor that they allowed women to have multiple husbands. It sounds good until one knows that men had to BUY a bride and most men were TOO poor to do that, so brothers and cousins would pool their money and buy ONE bride between/among them.
The poor wife had to "do" for ALL of them: laundry, food, sex, the whole nine yards. Not fun.
Now THAT is poverty.
KUDOS to the Rev. Jonathan Erdman, rector of Calvary Church in Louisville, KY. He knows how inherently WRONG same-sex liasons are. I won’t used the “word” marriage for them because it is anathema to ME.
A couple of Roman Catholics Popes (One was Pope Benedict, the "Panzer Pope.") called that "relative morality," that is, it's only RIGHT/WRONG if I think it is.
Or, simply put, no moral absolutes. Jesus who?
It's a sad commentary on the state of "relative morality." And, I think you're correct, all that will be left will be an almost-empty church with a dozen or so homosexuals. THEN, that church WILL finally shut down for good.
AMEN to that, brother.
THAT particular Episcopal Church is following the church of Satan, the Adversary. One can almost "smell" the scent of burning souls.
Episcopals are Satan’s Sodomite Cult.
I think you will find in the Episcopal Church, as in many churches of other denominations, that urban churches are much more liberal than the others. Ditto churches in college towns. Outside of the cities people in the pews are more conservative. I suppose you can say the same about the population in general.
“Why didn’t they just go to a local mosque to get married and then go back to the Rector and wave the marriage certificate in his face?”
I’d pay money to watch that!!
“Homosexuality is a holy sacrament in the Episcopal Church.”
that and abortion. I nearly fainted when I read this article! They had one good priest and what do they do? They run him off! This denomination is so doomed!
I think I agree with you on that statement. Churches in the country always seem to be more conservative than ones in big cities.
me too
Romans 1:18-32 ... people are bring turned over to reprobate minds because they have not retained the knowledge of God.
If your congregation or what have you is in any way towing the line on this madness and you cannot force those elements back or out then the best response is to run, not walk, to the exit yourself and never look back.
And, those of us who walk away from the EC as I did some years ago will always wonder if we should have stayed and fought. . . . . .
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You ask a hard question. Martin Luther fought for a while but the mainstream of the day didn’t care for what he had to say.
Unfortunately, today the mainstream churches are all about money. The term poor as a church mouse was a reference to ministers of the church being poor, today in the mainstream churches they are not. The “mainstream” denominations have a very large hierarchy that sucks money from the local congregations and every minister works toward a larger church and eventually to be a bishop or other administrator in the leadership of the denomination.
When one of the homosexuals in the Calvary decided that the priest was not homosexual friendly he left and took his donations with him and many in the leadership of the congregation were upset over the loss.
To me it is most unfortunate that money takes a higher position than doctrine.
I believe in loving the sinner and hating the sin, but honoring the sinner in his sin is not hating the sin. I would hope all sinners including queers, adulterers and all the rest of us would attend church and learn to do without the sins and give them all away but we won’t as long as the church honors it.
So much for the transparent lie that individual congregations could do as they wanted regarding the worship of sodomy.
Does he get to keep his pension?
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