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From New President of Episcopal Divinity School: 'Abortion is a Blessing'
Catholic Online ^ | 4/3/09 | Randy Sly

Posted on 04/01/2009 6:17:02 PM PDT by tcg

These are the two things I want you, please, to remember – abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Let me hear you say it: abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done. Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done...

The announcement on Monday, March 30 that The Rev. Dr. Katherine Ragsdale was appointed as the sixth and newest president of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, MA, has orthodox and pro-life Episcopalians shaking their heads.

Ragsdale, who is an outspoken advocate of abortion and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) rights, was the unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees and will begin her duties on July 1, 2009.

In addition to the press release and public letter concerning the appointment, the EDS website also has a link to Rev. Ragsdale’s sermon blog. There, the first sermon is entitled, “Our Work is Not Done.” The content has been cited and circulated on a large number of pro-life and conservative Christian blogs. An excerpt follows:

“When a woman wants a child but can’t afford one because she hasn’t the education necessary for a sustainable job, or access to health care, or day care, or adequate food, it is the abysmal priorities of our nation, the lack of social supports, the absence of justice that are the tragedies; the abortion is a blessing.

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KEYWORDS: abortion; ecusa; episcopal; highereducation; homosexualagenda; homosexuality; religiousleft; seminary
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To: aquila48
Well, then why stop at abortion - why not infanticide, too?

Other gays are actively trying to roll the Presbyterians and Methodists (the UMC has a real problem -- one of their bishops dropped a bomb by suddenly dying of AIDS a few years ago), and even Reform Jewish congregations are getting rolled, as witness the output of corrupt Judaic teachings like "Kaiser's Teshuva" (q.v. on the Net), despite Maimonides's having extended the Levitical prohibitions against sodomy by specifically condemning lesbianism as "rebellion" (against God) and "practices of Egypt" centuries ago.

41 posted on 04/02/2009 3:44:21 AM PDT by lentulusgracchus ("Whatever." -- sinkspur)
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To: lentulusgracchus

I don’t fit in.


42 posted on 04/02/2009 5:23:59 AM PDT by mamelukesabre (Si Vis Pacem Para Bellum (If you want peace prepare for war))
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To: tcg

Words fail me.


43 posted on 04/02/2009 6:36:30 AM PDT by al_c (Avoid the consequences of erudite vernacular utilized irrespective of necessity)
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To: tcg

God help us.


44 posted on 04/02/2009 11:36:17 AM PDT by Jvette
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To: mamelukesabre

Christ’s people will be taken off the planet before the anti-Christ can actually make his appearance. He can’t appear while the Holy Spirit is on earth, and the Holy Spirit indwells believers. So we have to be gone.


45 posted on 04/02/2009 11:40:36 AM PDT by MrB (Go Galt now, Bowman later)
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To: tcg

Why are gays and lesbians so concerned about abortion> It would seem to me that they are the last folks woo\ho would need it, or care about it.

Serious answers only, please!


46 posted on 04/02/2009 1:01:41 PM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
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Evidently, folks at this particular church have never read about the letters to the Churches in the Book Of Revelations. I would wager they've never attempted to read their Bibles at all.

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47 posted on 04/02/2009 4:14:28 PM PDT by DirtyHarryY2K (The Tree of Liberty is long overdue for its natural manure)
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To: yarddog

Oh yes, and another I recall about leading “My” flock astray.


48 posted on 04/02/2009 4:18:20 PM PDT by gidget7 (Duncan Hunter-Valley Forge Republican!)
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To: DirtyHarryY2K

“Divinity” meaning “satanic”, and “blessing” meaning “curse”.

It’s a crazy time, Harry.


49 posted on 04/02/2009 4:36:45 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Asato Ma Sad Gama Tamasi Ma Jyotir Gama)
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To: sionnsar

Sad Anglican ping


50 posted on 04/02/2009 7:06:07 PM PDT by Fractal Trader
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52 posted on 04/03/2009 3:42:14 AM PDT by Chode (American Hedonist - Obama is basically Jim Jones with a teleprompter)
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