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God urging me on, says 'gay' bishop -
The Telegraph - UK ^ | October 20, 2003

Posted on 10/19/2003 8:47:50 PM PDT by UnklGene

God urging me on, says 'gay' bishop - (Filed: 20/10/2003)

The Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop-elect said yesterday that he is agonising over the turmoil his election is causing but believes God wants him to go forward.

"This is one of the hardest things I'll ever do," said the Rev Gene Robinson at Grace Church, Manchester, New Hampshire. "I do have this sense I'm supposed to go forward, and I do feel that's coming from God and not my own ego."

Rev Gene Robinson Rev Robinson was elected by clergy and parishioners in New Hampshire in June and confirmed by the national Episcopal Church in August. He is scheduled to be consecrated as bishop of New Hampshire in two weeks. His election and confirmation has outraged some conservatives and is threatening to divide the Episcopal Church in the United States and the worldwide Anglican Communion, of which it is part.

At an emergency meeting at Lambeth Palace, in London, last week Anglican leaders warned that if Rev Robinson was consecrated as planned on Nov 2, "the future of the communion itself will be put in jeopardy".

Rev Robinson, 56, who was accompanied by a police officer yesterday, remains optimistic about the Church's future, saying it has weathered similar crises in the past.

Anglican leaders, representing 77 million members worldwide, say homosexuality is "contrary to Scripture". Mr Robinson says that is outweighed by the Scripture's call for love and acceptance of all.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: New Hampshire
KEYWORDS: aac; delusions; episcopal; fallout; homosexualbishop
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1 posted on 10/19/2003 8:47:50 PM PDT by UnklGene
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To: UnklGene
Poor guy!! The devil has his ear and he thinks it's God.
2 posted on 10/19/2003 8:49:04 PM PDT by DLfromthedesert
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To: UnklGene
God urging me on, says 'gay' bishop

"You go, girl!", says God.

3 posted on 10/19/2003 8:55:30 PM PDT by Chad Fairbanks (Te audire no possum. Musa sapientum fixa est in aure.)
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To: UnklGene
God urging me on, says 'gay' bishop...

This poor pervert has developed the "Benny Hinn Syndrome". God, angels, and Kathyn Kuhlman visit him at night and say: "You go, 'gay' guy! Disregard the Scriptures and do the "loving" thing.

4 posted on 10/19/2003 8:55:39 PM PDT by UnklGene
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To: UnklGene
Hmm. I'd be awfully suspicious about a sudden change in God's attitude toward homosexuality. Seems to violate the never changing part.
5 posted on 10/19/2003 8:56:18 PM PDT by WinOne4TheGipper (I see dead (?) people with flashing heads. www.paul-is-dead.com Links page)
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To: UnklGene
God is calling. Necrophiliacs, please apply at Window 2. Pedophiles, at Window 3. Bestiality-aficionados, at Window 4.
6 posted on 10/19/2003 9:00:19 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: Chad Fairbanks; xzins; drstevej; CCWoody; Gamecock
BWAHAHAHAHAHA! More likely Screwtape or one of his infernal bretheren is encouraging the poofter.
7 posted on 10/19/2003 9:00:31 PM PDT by CARepubGal
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To: will1776
Exactly. God has no need to judge a thing twice.
8 posted on 10/19/2003 9:00:52 PM PDT by Cultural Jihad
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To: will1776
God's urging him to read his bible, confess and repent.
9 posted on 10/19/2003 9:01:11 PM PDT by Taiwan Bocks
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To: UnklGene
God urging me on, says 'gay' bishop -

Bud, I hate to have to tell you, but that isn't God.

Anglican leaders, representing 77 million members worldwide, say homosexuality is "contrary to Scripture". Mr Robinson says that is outweighed by the Scripture's call for love and acceptance of all.

Oooo Lets play madlibs shall we?

Anglican leaders, representing 77 million members worldwide, say murder is "contrary to Scripture". Mr Robinson says that is outweighed by the Scripture's call for love and acceptance of all.

Anglican leaders, representing 77 million members worldwide, say kleptomania is "contrary to Scripture". Mr Robinson says that is outweighed by the Scripture's call for love and acceptance of all.

Anglican leaders, representing 77 million members worldwide, say pedophilia is "contrary to Scripture". Mr Robinson says that is outweighed by the Scripture's call for love and acceptance of all.

Isn't this fun?

10 posted on 10/19/2003 9:01:23 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (It's none of your business what I do in the woods nosy Humans!)
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The sad part is not the homosexual deviant --he's living the bankrupt life one would expect of an unrepentant deviant, it is that there are prominent Episcopalians who are leaders in the Church (I'm an Episcopalian) that agree with this deviant demonservant! It is indicative of how far from the Gospel the Episcopal Church has strayed without a clue as to their location or direction. Can we say, "The Mystery Of Iniquity"?
11 posted on 10/19/2003 9:10:27 PM PDT by MHGinTN (If you can read this, you've had life support from someone. Promote life support for others.)
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To: UnklGene
He is not blameless. He does not care for the office of a bishop. He is an abomination.
12 posted on 10/19/2003 9:12:27 PM PDT by AD from SpringBay (We have the government we allow and deserve.)
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To: UnklGene
but believes God wants him to go forward.

Uh...that ain't God, buddy. Look again.

13 posted on 10/19/2003 9:13:01 PM PDT by concerned about politics (What have you done with your life? Have you donated to the Salvation Army this week?)
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To: UnklGene
God calls it an abomination.

What he is hearing is not from God, but could be from god.
14 posted on 10/19/2003 9:13:39 PM PDT by A CA Guy (God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
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To: CARepubGal; ahadams2
If we assume that God is urging this man to pose as a bishop of a Christian church after he left his wife and kids, after he started living with a man, after he admitted to a continuing homosexual relationship with that man, and after he vows that he thinks it is a perfectly moral and christian relationship, then we must....


Throw away the Bible
Throw away 2000 years of church history


Which is exactly what this man is shooting at.

His INTENT is to injure Christianity. And I think he KNOWS it.
15 posted on 10/19/2003 9:13:48 PM PDT by xzins (Proud to be Army!)
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To: UnklGene
I do feel that's coming from God and not my own ego."

Sure. Start a war in Gods house for your own self indulgence. Oh no. That's not an ego at all - NOT!!!

16 posted on 10/19/2003 9:15:13 PM PDT by concerned about politics (What have you done with your life? Have you donated to the Salvation Army this week?)
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To: UnklGene
Since when did God's voice sound like Mark Morford?
17 posted on 10/19/2003 9:15:56 PM PDT by Loyalist
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"I do have this sense I'm supposed to go forward, and I do feel that's coming from God and not my own ego."

He is blaming God for his actions??

18 posted on 10/19/2003 9:16:17 PM PDT by Mo1 (http://www.favewavs.com/wavs/cartoons/spdemocrats.wav)
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To: UnklGene
This guy is seriously misinterpreting the Temple Mount.
20 posted on 10/19/2003 9:19:20 PM PDT by byteback
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