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Episcopalians Against Equality (extreme media bias alert)
The Washington Post ^ | December 20, 2006 | Harold Meyerson

Posted on 12/20/2006 7:13:58 AM PST by WashingtonSource

Don't look now, but Virginia is seceding again. On Sunday nine Episcopal parishes in Virginia, including the one where George Washington served as a vestryman, announced that they had voted to up and leave the U.S. Episcopal Church to protest its increasingly equal treatment of homosexuals. In 2003 an overwhelming majority of the nation's Episcopal bishops ratified the selection of a gay bishop by the New Hampshire diocese. This past June the church's general convention elevated Nevada Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori to the post of presiding U.S. bishop. Jefferts Schori is the first woman to head a national branch of the Anglican Church. Worse yet, she has allowed the blessing of same-sex couples within her diocese (which includes the ever theologically innovative Las Vegas). . . . . .

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: comppost; episcopal; episcopalian; lies; marxism; queeniness; usec
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To: WashingtonSource
Don't look now, but Virginia is seceding again. On Sunday nine Episcopal parishes in Virginia, including the one where George Washington served as a vestryman, announced that they had voted to up and leave the U.S. Episcopal Church to protest its increasingly equal treatment of homosexuals.

The Church members are leaving because they do NOT want to desecrate the memory of the honorable past vestrymen such as George Washington, by the practice of heresy by the hierarchy of the Episcopal Church. Miss Meyerson and her ilk illustrate the difficulty the good Episcopalians face with not only the coersive threats by the corrupt bishops to take away their property, but the venom of leftists and other heretics like Meyerson, IMO.

21 posted on 12/20/2006 7:42:03 AM PST by olezip
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To: dimeadozen
real question is when did "equality" become the main governing law?

The real question is when did sexual perversion become a civil rights issue?

22 posted on 12/20/2006 7:44:36 AM PST by Alouette (Psalms of the Day: 140-144)
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To: bordergal
Sorry, not all of us are attraced by the "theological innovation" that goes on in Las Vegas.

Oh, come on! You couldn't get on board with pastor Elvis and the chior singing about Sodom and Gomorrah?

"It was a hunk a hunk of burnin' gays! Ooooo It was a hunk a hunk of burnin' gays!"

Well... perhaps they would sing something else.

23 posted on 12/20/2006 7:45:22 AM PST by 70times7 (Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
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To: WashingtonSource

The Episcopalian I know says their denomination is the most intelligent. He also says they have no problem with any sin and their doors are open because "no one is perfect".


24 posted on 12/20/2006 7:47:27 AM PST by DungeonMaster (Acts 17:11 also known as sola scriptura.)
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To: ahadams2; ex-Texan; ableLight; rogue yam; neodad; Tribemike; rabscuttle385; cf_river_rat; ...
Extreme media bias alert.

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25 posted on 12/20/2006 7:47:33 AM PST by sionnsar (?trad-anglican.faithweb.com?|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: WashingtonSource
Apparently it's Harold Meyerson who is theologically innovative.
26 posted on 12/20/2006 7:53:31 AM PST by Savage Beast ("Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, it became a butterfly.")
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To: ichabod1
Here's a useful story: apparently ECUSA and Canada have been censured, and that is the way it will remain until the next conference in 2008:
Anglican council censures Canada, U.S.
Solange De Santis
staff writer
Sep 1, 2005
Lynn Ross	

Nottingham, England:  The Anglican Consultative Council, which 
met June 18-29, voted to censure the Canadian and American 
churches for their more-liberal stand on homosexuality after
 listening to presentations from both churches.

The council, an international group that meets once every 
three years, also decided to allow the 38 primates, or 
national bishops, of the Anglican Communion to join.

The 70-odd members of the council met at the University of 
Nottingham in an auditorium that was physically hot, due to 
wobbly air conditioning and a heat wave, and emotionally 
tense.

Although the council discussed such matters as the Middle 
East and the United Nations' Millen-nium Development Goals, 
public interest focused on sexuality.

On June 22, the council decided to endorse a request from 
Anglican primates that Canada and the United States withdraw
 from the council at least until the 2008 Lambeth 
Conference, suggesting that the two churches "voluntarily 
withdraw" from two important council committees.
http://www.anglicanjournal.com/world/ecusa/013/article/anglican-council-censures-canada-us/
27 posted on 12/20/2006 7:54:04 AM PST by AFPhys ((.Praying for President Bush, our troops, their families, and all my American neighbors..))
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To: WashingtonSource
Miss Meyerson has her panties in a bunch....

The secular activists (even religious 'reformers' like PB Jefforts-Schori) and high perch commentators simply don't get it....

The Body of Christ is not an institution of man...
It is a movement of God....

The head of the Body is Jesus Christ --
And the Body is led and energized by the Spirit of the Living God...
Who does not change... or lie...

The same offer of mercies, compassion, healing, and transformation is available to all who choose to receive....

And the same ultimate judgments await those who refuse to acknowledge God and receive his offer of reconciliation purchase on the cross....

Jesus is the way the truth and the life...

Regardless of the opinions....

28 posted on 12/20/2006 7:56:36 AM PST by Wings-n-Wind (The answers remain available; Wisdom is obtained by asking all the right questions!)
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To: 70times7

LOL, oh don't get me started!


29 posted on 12/20/2006 7:57:56 AM PST by bordergal (There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of men bad enough for this treachery)
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To: bordergal

I thought that line was inserted as commentary by the FR poster. I had no idea that the author actually meant it. That explains A LOT!


30 posted on 12/20/2006 7:59:19 AM PST by piperpilot
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To: WashingtonSource

It really boils down to the homosexuals want no debate over choice.

Homosexuals push the notion that they have no choice in how they obtain sexual gratification. Their sexual gratification is to be judgment proof and not even "god" is allowed to dispute their method of orgasm.

The fact is there is NOTHING, ZERO, ZIP, in any credible science to support any posture of homosexuality as anything other than a learned behavior.

this is not about equal rights for homosexuals, this is about special rights for those with a particular sexual fetish. Homosexuality is only about the orgasm, nothing else.


31 posted on 12/20/2006 8:01:35 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: WashingtonSource; All

It really boils down to the homosexuals want no debate over choice.

Homosexuals push the notion that they have no choice in how they obtain sexual gratification. Their sexual gratification is to be judgment proof and not even "god" is allowed to dispute their method of orgasm.

The fact is there is NOTHING, ZERO, ZIP, in any credible science to support any posture of homosexuality as anything other than a learned behavior.

this is not about equal rights for homosexuals, this is about special rights for those with a particular sexual fetish. Homosexuality is only about the orgasm, nothing else.


32 posted on 12/20/2006 8:01:42 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: WashingtonSource

Legacy Media is still unhappy that they were ineffective in selecting a Pope of their own choosing.


33 posted on 12/20/2006 8:04:51 AM PST by SmithL (Where are we going? . . . . And why are we in this handbasket????)
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To: WashingtonSource

sorry about the 2x post


34 posted on 12/20/2006 8:05:25 AM PST by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: Portcall24
Usually, I'm the one to miss the subtle, cultural references.

But "screaming Queen" clued me in.

Alas, poor Freddie Mercury, I knew him, not, Horatio.

35 posted on 12/20/2006 8:06:55 AM PST by Calvin Locke
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To: 2banana
No bias in the media here...

Actually the opinion page is the appropriate place to register bias.

36 posted on 12/20/2006 8:09:15 AM PST by jimfree (Freep and ye shall find.)
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To: Calvin Locke

Poor Freddy Mercury. "Queen" was a big smash in the 1970s but nothing could save him from his lifestyle and the ravages of AIDS.


37 posted on 12/20/2006 8:24:39 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: longtermmemmory
It really boils down to the homosexuals want no debate over choice.

Actually, in the case of the Episcopal Church, it boils down to the presiding bishop and leadership wanting no choice (let alone debate over choice).

The homosexual issue is just the symptom, not the underlying problem. Bishop Schori, her predecessor Bishop Griswold and their cabal rule the Episcopal Church along the lines of a modern US university/authoritarian system: they preach "tolerance" and "diversity" - but permit none that contradicts their own ideology (even though their own ideology may contradict long-established theology and practice). The unpermissiveness is backed by a pattern of coercion and threats against parishes that don't toe the "party line". Don't like what the cabal wants you/your congregation to push? Well, you can either suck it up and keep your mouth shut, or kiss your assets goodbye ...
38 posted on 12/20/2006 8:29:27 AM PST by tanknetter
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To: DungeonMaster

Where there is NO law, there is NO sin.


39 posted on 12/20/2006 8:37:25 AM PST by tessalu
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To: AFPhys
It is my understanding that the Anglican Communion has effectively expelled the American Episcopal Church (ECUSA), and that ECUSA is no longer considered to be Anglican.

Bzzzt....false.

It's still under discussion...They are talking themselves to death while their church evaporates.

40 posted on 12/20/2006 9:13:53 AM PST by x_plus_one (Franklin Graham: "Allah is not the God of Moses. Allah had no son")
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