Posted on 06/20/2005 4:26:46 PM PDT by kerrywearsbotox
ANGLICAN leaders will hear for the first time tomorrow a theological justification by the heads of the Canadian and American churches for their actions over homosexuals, which have brought the Anglican community to the brink of schism.
The Primate of the US Anglican Church, the Most Rev Frank Griswold, will deliver a report to a meeting in Nottingham on why it was right to ordain the openly gay Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire. The Canadian Primate, the Archbishop of Montreal, the Most Rev Andrew Hutchison, will also lead a delegation to explain the actions of the New Westminster Diocese in authorising same-sex blessings.
The US report, To Set Our Hope on Christ, has been prepared by the liberal theologian Mark Mcintosh, of Loyola University, Chicago, and others. Although the Americans have expressed regret for the effects of their actions, they have not expressed repentance and are not expected to do so.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesonline.co.uk ...
Romans 1:26
Genesis 19
Ezekiel 16:49
Judges 19
1 Samuel 18, 1 Samuel 20
I have not even mentioned Leviticus.
Perhaps sin is too "last millennium" for him? Whatever the case may be, it is bad scholarship, and even worse pastoral work. What's next for him? A report about how adultery is okay, per the bible? I'm sure he can come up with inventive exegesis for that -- which can twist the words of scripture to mean the exact opposite of what actually do mean.
e-mail the dean of the theology faculty to complain about his fraudulent report on homosexuality and the church, jmccar1@luc.edu
Not even Fred Astaire was that great of a tap dancer.
Jesus said: "And he answered and said unto them, Have ye not read that he which made them at the beginning made them male and female, And said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife: and they twain shall be one flesh? Wherefore, they are no more twain, but one flesh. What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder." -from THE BIBLE: Matthew 19:4-6
I'd laugh, were it not so sad.....
Do they have to drag God into this too?
FYI..The Times of London's take ..
It is amazing to me, that even if Leviticus 18:22 meant nothing to them, that they would still move ahead with ordaining a sodomite with the full knowledge that it would provoke an all-out schism, not only with the worldwide communion, but also within the US itself. That act strikes me as a deliberate one with no other conceivable aim but to destroy the church.
Next week: theological justification of murder, adultery, stealing, and idolatry!
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. Yawn. Wonder what's on TV tonight?
Ought to be renamed 'The Hershey Highway First Pederastic Church'
You're what..7-8 hours behind them....you'll wake up with the news, and the first headlines...
"You're what..7-8 hours behind them....you'll wake up with the news, and the first headlines..."
Yup. Of course it remains to be seen if there will be any real headlines. Probably as Agrarian put it, "Yawn."
Sorry to be so cynical, but after the ABC's speechifying (stupefying?) attempt at bringing everyone together, I'm just a bit pessimistic. In fact, at this point I think what I would like most to happen is for the Nigerians to simply walk out and tell the ACC and the ECUSA to go to hell. Or rather, stay there.
Unfortunately, them being Episcopalians, it will be a whole lot of mush-speak which properly translated will mean: Because we said so, nyah, nyah, nyah!
A couple of questions for the Anglicans. What happens in the Anglican church if a priest gets divorced? Are there other divorced bishops?
Because he can't and so he won't. The Catholic Church, on the other hand, has taken a strong stance against homosexual unions.
Homosexual "Marriage"
True marriage is the union of one man and one woman. Legal recognition of any other union as "marriage" undermines true marriage, and legal recognition of homosexual unions actually does homosexual persons a disfavor by encouraging them to persist in what is an objectively immoral arrangement.
"When legislation in favor of the recognition of homosexual unions is proposed for the first time in a legislative assembly, the Catholic lawmaker has a moral duty to express his opposition clearly and publicly and to vote against it. To vote in favor of a law so harmful to the common good is gravely immoral" (UHP 10).
UHP Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Considerations regarding Proposals to Give Legal Recognition to Unions between Homosexual Persons
Catholic Ping
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a reading from the book of scott & stevie, chapter 4 verse 14:
And lo it seemed good to you that we not sniff the pickle, but in our hearts and minds we did thusly. And we spoke boldly therefore of the pickle that we had in fact, sniffed and proclaimed in not sin, but the narrow-minded heathen, bigoted and self -righteous amongst the crowds hurled thy injurious epithets and didst made us cry. Therefore we made prayer and supplication unto our god, phallus, and we realized, we too, could be ordained episcopalian priests and wear long flowing robes of silk and velvet and ooh, we were verklempt. Praise be!
Yup. Posted it yesterday. *\;-)
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