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Gay Anglican Bishop Says He'd Like to Marry
Reuters Oddly Enough News ^ | 16 Mar 04 | Reuters

Posted on 03/16/2004 11:35:12 AM PST by AreaMan

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop said on Monday he would like to marry his longtime partner, but only if it becomes legal in New Hampshire, where they live.

Gene Robinson, who became the ninth bishop of New Hampshire last week, said he and partner Mark Andrew hoped they could wed someday, but they did not plan to go to parts of Canada or to Massachusetts -- if same-sex marriage became legal there -- to get married.

"If the civil right of marriage were to become legal in New Hampshire, I think we'd be married in a minute," Robinson told reporters at New York University, where he received an award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (news - web sites).

For now, "I've got too much to do as the bishop of New Hampshire," he said. "I've taken on enough for the moment."

Robinson, a 56-year-old divorced father of two, has lived with Andrew for 14 years.

Robinson's consecration as bishop in November sparked fury among conservative Anglicans both within the United States and around the world, and threatened a rupture within the 70 million-member church.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Miscellaneous; US: New Hampshire
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If every day a PETA member sits and eats a steak while wearing a fur coat he/she would be called a hypocrite.

If a Greenpeace idiot thinks it is ok to have a "Nuke the Gay Whales" sticker on his Volvo he would be called a hypocrite.

This man is a hypocrite and not a Christian. Christianity denotes a particular philosophy and conduct not compatible with this kind of behavior.

Anyone who falls, i.e. sins, is not automatically a hypocrite or no longer a Christian. But a person who consistantly does the opposite of what Christianity teaches is not a Christian.

1 posted on 03/16/2004 11:35:16 AM PST by AreaMan
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To: AreaMan
Why are Episcopals no good at chess?

Because they can't tell the Bishops from the Queens.

2 posted on 03/16/2004 11:38:09 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: AreaMan
Looks like Gene Robinson has become the leader of the "If it Feels Good Do It" sect of the "Church of What's Happenin' Now."

I was about to say that this should push the Episcopalians over the edge, but I doubt it.

3 posted on 03/16/2004 11:39:07 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: AreaMan
This man is much less at fault than the denomination.
4 posted on 03/16/2004 11:39:54 AM PST by biblewonk (I now pronounce you man and husband...and dog.)
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To: Semper Paratus
damn semper that is good. anyway he might as well get married....he is already blastphemous. heck his congration should endorse it, they let him be bishop
5 posted on 03/16/2004 11:40:54 AM PST by Kewlhand`tek
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To: ladtx
makes you wonder how many of these homosexuals view the priesthood as just a job and are in attion, actually atheists.
6 posted on 03/16/2004 11:41:28 AM PST by longtermmemmory (Vote!)
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To: AreaMan
Exactly! For non-evangelicals, religion is nothing more than a tool to push their liberal politics on the rest of us. As a bible-believing Christian, nothing makes me sicker than to see scum like this "bishop" politicizing the word of the Lord.
7 posted on 03/16/2004 11:41:50 AM PST by jojodamofo
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To: little jeremiah
Ping


What We Can Do To Help Defeat the "Gay" Agenda


Homosexual Agenda: Categorical Index of Links (Version 1.1)


The Stamp of Normality

8 posted on 03/16/2004 11:43:00 AM PST by EdReform (Support Free Republic - All donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you for your support!)
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To: AreaMan
Gay Anglican Bishop Says He'd Like to Marry

He should have thought of that before he went off and got himself all gay.

9 posted on 03/16/2004 11:45:54 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: Kewlhand`tek
Makes me long for the days of the Inquisition where you could flog the Bishop.
10 posted on 03/16/2004 11:46:05 AM PST by Semper Paratus
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To: AreaMan
Gay Anglican Bishop Says He'd Like to Marry

Wow! I didn't see that coming...

NOT!

11 posted on 03/16/2004 11:49:25 AM PST by bondjamesbond (Judge Roy Moore is our Ralph Nader. If you want to live under Sharia Law, support Roy Moore in 2004)
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To: ahadams2
ping
12 posted on 03/16/2004 11:55:00 AM PST by Eala (Sacrificing tagline fame for... TRAD ANGLICAN RESOURCE PAGE: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican)
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To: Semper Paratus
Makes me long for the days of the Inquisition where you could flog the Bishop.

Robinson might go for that.

13 posted on 03/16/2004 11:56:15 AM PST by ladtx ( "Remember your regiment and follow your officers." Captain Charles May, 2d Dragoons, 9 May 1846)
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To: AreaMan
Robinson already has scorned God's laws--why is he concerned with man's laws?
14 posted on 03/16/2004 11:57:20 AM PST by exit82 (Toll free number for the Capitol switchboard:1-800-648-3516--let your reps in DC know what you think)
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To: AreaMan
Romans I-27
15 posted on 03/16/2004 11:58:41 AM PST by kellynla (U.S.M.C. "C" 1/5 1st Mar Div. Viet Nam 69&70 Semper Fi "KERRY IS A LYING TRAITOR!")
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To: AreaMan
"Robinson's consecration as bishop...threatened a rupture within the 70 million-member [Anglican] church."

The rupture (unfortunately, not "the rapture") already has ocurred. The revisionist, Socialist sodomites have caused this schsim. Now we tradtional/conservative Epsicopalians are forming our own Anglican Network that is and will remain in communion with the worldwide Church.

16 posted on 03/16/2004 12:00:23 PM PST by quark
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To: AreaMan
He already did marry.

Then he left his wife and started a perverted relationship with another man.

What he needs is not marriage; it is the three R's.

Regeneration.

Repentance.

Redemption.

Dan
Biblical Christianity web site

17 posted on 03/16/2004 12:01:08 PM PST by BibChr ("...behold, they have rejected the word of the LORD, so what wisdom is in them?" [Jer. 8:9])
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To: AreaMan
Openly gay Episcopal bishop.... wants to marry his male lover.... if it becomes legal.... but for now he's got enough on his plate.... says he, receiving an award from the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force.

Surreal cannot begin to describe it.

18 posted on 03/16/2004 12:07:59 PM PST by workerbee
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To: Eala; AreaMan
More discussion on this topic can be found at

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1091738/posts
19 posted on 03/16/2004 1:58:42 PM PST by ahadams2 (Anglican Freeper Resource Page: http://eala.freeservers.com/anglican/)
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To: *Homosexual Agenda; EdReform; scripter; GrandMoM; backhoe; Yehuda; Clint N. Suhks; saradippity; ...
Homosexual Agenda Ping - aka as The Tsunami of Sewage(tm).

Many excellent comments on this thread already, and a link or two.

I wonder if some Episcopalian Churches will get like the Metropolitan Community Church and have seminars in the use of electricity during sex, bondage, S&M and so on?

Let me know if anyone wants on/off this pinglist.
20 posted on 03/16/2004 2:41:36 PM PST by little jeremiah (...men of intemperate minds can not be free. Their passions forge their fetters.)
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