"He complains too much." "You'd complain too if you sucked!"
Posted on 07/22/2008 12:19:38 PM PDT by Schnucki
The gay bishop of New Hampshire should resign in order to save the Anglican Communion, a senior African archbishop said today.
The call came from the Rt Rev Dr Daniel Deng, the archbishop of Sudan, and followed a strongly worded statement that accused the US Episcopal church of exposing Anglicans to ridicule and damaging their credibility in a multi-religious environment.
African bishops who signed the statement rejecting homosexual practice said they could not accept it as part of their church. They reiterated their opposition to developments in the US and Canada, where gay clergy are ordained and where same-sex relationships are blessed.
"This has not only caused deep divisions within the communion but it has seriously harmed the church's witness in Africa, opening the church to ridicule and damaging its credibility in a multi-religious environment."
The statement was endorsed by more than 150 bishops attending Lambeth, who represent 17 of the 38 provinces in the Anglican Communion.
Deng said: "He [Robinson] should resign for the sake of the church. The people who consecrated him should confess to the conference because they created an outcry in the whole Anglican world. God is not making a mistake creating Adam and Eve - he would have created two Adams if he wanted. If he was a real Christian he would resign."
There was already a breakdown in the Anglican Communion, with around 230 bishops boycotting the conference because of Robinson's election, he said.
"Can he not resign to allow the 300 bishops to come back to the house? The norms of the communion have been violated. We're asking them as Christians to keep the Anglican world intact."
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
Standing O for the Rt Rev Dr Daniel Deng.
“We’re asking them as Christians to keep the Anglican world intact.”
One problem.
They’re not.
Must be one of the Butt Brothers.
“There’s a gay bishop on the landing, Dad.”
Doesn’t quite have the same “ring” as the original...
"He complains too much." "You'd complain too if you sucked!"
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That would be getting off rather light. Back in the old days he could have been burnt at the stake.
Duuugh.. gayness is not about sacrifice and giving, its about getting.. and receiving..
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Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15
One prays that even he, in the words of the 1928 BCP, would "turn from his wickedness and live."
I have a soft spot for Mr. Morley, because he was organist and choirmaster at St. Giles-without-Cripplegate, where my gggg grandfather was baptized in 1795.
First, I agree with the sentiment entirely. When people complain about including a public or ecclesiastical official whose policies they dissaprove of in the Prayers for the People, I ask “But then who needs our prayers more?”
Secondly; thanks for the link. My choir has sung that ourselves. I’m the only tenor, so it’s tough because if I make a mistake there’s no one to cover.
Kudos for the Archbishop for speaking up, although some of his phrasing, like “Robinson is an error” is unfortunate and obviously will be twisted by the gay activists. People need to make it clear that it is “homosexual activity” that is the sin, and not the person’s existence. He should have been more careful to spell out that “making Robinson a bishop was an error”, although of course that is what the Archbishop meant.
Amen.
Africans in particular are so close the AIDS epidemic, and the African church is so anxious to help its people escape the virus, that African clergy cannot understand why white Westerners would endorse and condone and reward the very behaviours that have brought nothing but death and pestilence to families in Africa. In Africa, the church is where people are educated and Africans actually can appreciate the benefits of a Christian civilization—unlike spoiled white Westerners.
Our choirmaster doubles on tenor from the organ bench . . . (he IS that good!)
Can't you get a contralto to sing with you? I'm a deep contralto -- from about a C or C# in the bass clef up to an G# or A above the treble clef, so tenor is well within my range. And it ought to be in the range of any true alto.
Don't you love the way the alto and tenor lines clash on "Father, behold my painful smart" - right on "painful"? Talk about marriage of tune and text!
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