Posted on 01/02/2011 5:26:49 PM PST by massmike
The most powerful propaganda is often the most subtle. If a person is portrayed as doing great, humanitarian things versus doing divisive or hurtful things, that person's cause and message are also given a psychological boost.
In today's culture wars the mainstream media does this in spades. When writing about people involved in these issues, there is rarely any middle ground -- as we've warned pro-family people for years. Although the casual reader may not realize it, the media takes this very seriously.
On Dec. 5 the Boston Globe ran a prominent feature article on Bishop V. Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual bishop in the worldwide Episcopal church. It ought to be Exhibit A in any journalism class. To conservatives, Robinson is the cause of great pain, trauma, a breakdown of Christian morality, and a bitter split in the Episcopal Church. But in the Globe article (see below) he is simply a conquering civil rights hero who is continuing his humanitarian work in retirement.
(Excerpt) Read more at massresistance.org ...
Your parish will be o.k. until your rector retires. THEN you are going to have a big problem.
An Episcopal minister cannot be ordained without the national church's approval. This is the 'big stick' by which they control the seminaries.
Several years ago, TEC stopped approving candidates for ordination from Nashotah House and TSM. So the pool of available orthodox candidates inside TEC is frozen and will inevitable disappear. Nashotah and TSM are staying alive by training candidates for the various splinter Anglican groups, but Nashotah at least is going to have a big problem because they are traditionally high and most of the splinter groups are low church or evangelical.
Our former parish went screamingly left wing when the rector retired. They also began to abandon the "high church" ritual and theology.
So now we're happy Catholics. That may not be an alternative if you're not high church. - We were nosebleed high and a meeting with our new rector revealed that the only matters of doctrine on which we differed were the supremacy of the Pope and the validity of Anglican orders.
Hmm. That’s “inevitably”. Sheesh.
The faggots and their apologists long ago rationalized that one away ... they claim that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah was being "inhospitable".
Ya think?
Yeah, attempted homosexual gang-rape is a bit inhospitable ...
Well, that won’t be a problem for a while and there’s really no alternative chuch for me because of where I live and the fact that I’ve been a member of this parish for almost 40 years.
I’ll admit I don’t love the parish as much as I once did.
We have 3 women clergy including rector, 1 associate priest who is male. All lovely people but I would rather have a male priest, although I’m not one who thinks female priests inherently wrong. I just don’t want one (ha).
Feel mean about that because our priest is a lovely person who never puts politics in her sermons but I know she is a feminist.
Bishop Stanton has some serious decisions ahead as our diocese is predominately conservative and he has to decide where to go. It will be interesting.
The feminists made common cause with the homosexuals, and then it was "game over". We had some o.k. female ministers (I felt just like you do) but then we started getting the lesbians.
Bishop Allen was pretty steady but the new bishop (Alexander) threw in his lot whole-heartedly with the homosexuals.
The 'aha!' moment for us was when the new rector said that anybody who disagreed with him on the ordination of Robinson or 'gay marriage' was not only wrong -- they were evil.
Right then was when our search started.
That would be the moment for me also, but we’re not there or even close to there in my church.
Glad you found a church home!
And you have to be careful about selecting a Catholic parish. Some of them are just as goofy as any Episcopal one -- right down to 'sister' priest wannabes and all sorts of goofy non-Catholic stuff.
The difference I guess is that when they get too out of line there's a bishop to slap them down - unless of course you live somewhere really loopy like upstate NY . . . . where the perennially idiotic bish just gave communion to pro-abort governor-elect Cuomo AND his shack-up honey and preached a Socialist sermon that only incidentally mentioned Jesus. Catholic Church is not without problems - unless we find a church where there are no humans, that's going to be a given.
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