"500,000 American men now dead who smeared
themselves with excrement? Too bad! So what?"
Posted on 02/24/2005 7:26:20 PM PST by RFEngineer
LONDON (AP) -- Anglican primates agreed Thursday that the U.S. Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada would withdraw from a key body of the global Anglican Communion after failing to overcome internal church disagreements about the election of a gay bishop in the United States and the blessing of same-sex unions there and in Canada.
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What the admonition is really about is the then equivalent of due process. Unless we are without sin we cannot judge and punish without the process required by, in the particular case, Jewish law, which had specific requirements for the judgment of adultery.
"I don't think you're tolerant enough!"
"You backward hicks actually believe the Bible? How quaint!"
"Jesus never mentioned gay people, so homosexuality must be OK by him. Some people think he was gay too, you know."
Etc., Etc. ad nauseum.
I believe he also said that, if church members didn't like the "new" episcopal church, they could leave. The thought didn't seem to bother him, as it didn't seem to bother the [homosexual] rector of the church I left. However, now we'll see who is leaving what.
You're right--I remember him saying that.
Tonight on the McNeil / Leher report on PBS, they were in a snit about the decision of the Anglicans who actually believe what the Bible says.
Oh, c'mon. He looks FAB-B-B-u-lous in that color!
I hear that defense of homosexuality quite often, that "Jesus never specifically mentioned it." People who say that must not believe Jesus was God, as part of the trinity. Because God sure mentions homosexuality in both the New and Old Testaments. Further, Jesus spoke quite a bit about sin, and its consequences. Finally, Jesus said He came not to abolish the law, but to fulfill the law.
I suppose if we adopted the argument that Jesus is never quoted as having mentioned homosexuality in the Gospels, then nothing in the rest of the Bible that is not specifically reiterated by Him is null and void? Of coarse not, but that is what these people like Teddyros would have us believe.
Holy Scripture never mentioned abortion or counterfeiting, either. So supposedly abortionists and counterfeiters should be allowed to be bishops, according to the literalist moral-liberals who wanted God to do the devil's work and list every perversion there ever was or ever will be.
Excellent post. Well stated, thanks.
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