Posted on 05/08/2009 6:12:07 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The Rev. Katherine Ragsdale will soon become the first female president of Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Openly lesbian, the outgoing chief of a liberal think tank that monitored the Religious Right, and best known for her abortion rights advocacy through the Washington-based Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC), Ragsdale maybe the perfect icon for untrammeled liberal Episcopalianism.
But a rather vigorous two-year-old abortion sermon by Ragsdale, assertive even by her standards, has overshadowed her recent appointment. "Abortion is a blessing and our work is not done!" she repeatedly exclaimed at a rally in defense of an abortion clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, in 2007. Those "blessing" situations, according to Ragsdale, are when a woman is pregnant due to "violence," when the fetus has "anomalies," when the woman hasn't education or a "sustainable job," and even when a woman has a "loving, supportive, respectful relationship" with "every option open to her" but knows the child will compromise "one's education, life's work, or ability to put to use God's gifts." So basically, abortion, including even partial-birth abortion as Ragsdale admits, is a "blessing" just about any time it is desired.
In her Birmingham peroration, Ragsdale chastised medical personnel who declined to abort, comparing them to pacifists who join the military or animal rights activists who conduct medical research. They are in the wrong profession! She concluded her sermon: "I want to thank all of you who protect this blessing [of abortion] -- who do this work every day: the health care providers, doctors, nurses, technicians, receptionists, who put your lives on the line to care for others (you are heroes -- in my eyes, you are saints); the escorts and the activists; the lobbyists and the clinic defenders; all of you. You're engaged in holy work."
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
She will think it better a millstone were about her neck and that she was cast into the deep, than the judgment she will face.
It’s very clear from her own words that she is doing the bidding of her master, and that individual is not He to whom every knee will bow.
Ping.
Here we have the poster child for women’s ordination....
Sanctity of Life Sunday
Archpastoral Message of His Beatitude, Metropolitan Jonah (Orthodox Church in America)
http://www.oca.org/jonah-2009-0118.html
....Our life as human beings is not given to us to live autonomously and independently. This, however, is the great temptation: to deny our personhood, by the depersonalization of those around us, seeing them only as objects that are useful and give us pleasure, or are obstacles to be removed or overcome. This is the essence of our fallenness, our brokenness. With this comes the denial of God, and loss of spiritual consciousness. It has resulted in profound alienation and loneliness, a society plummeting into the abyss of nihilism and despair. There can be no sanctity of life when nothing is sacred, nothing is holy. Nor can there be any respect for persons in a society that accepts only autonomous individualism: there can be no love, only selfish gratification. This, of course, is delusion. We are mutually interdependent....
All you Episcopalians—it’s time to go home to Orthodoxy—the sooner the better!!!! An open servant of Satan has been elected—unanimously!—to the headship of one of your leading schools of “theology”. What more bad news do you need to show you that it’s time to go home?
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High priestess of Molech that is.
GUILTY!
Yes, but she’d be guilty no matter what she looked like. Beauty is only skin deep, but guilty is to the marrow.
I’m against women’s ordination, also, but let’s not extrapolate from one deranged lesbian to an entire gender. Ordaining a Lesbian is a wretched thing, because that person stands for the promotion of an evil act.
Priests must be men because they stand as representatives for Christ in laying down their own lives to make war against evil. It is an abomination to men to ask a woman to sacrifice her life so that a man should live.
Oh really..try cracking open the Bible sometime Rev.
"Before I formed you in the womb I knew you".. Jeremiah 1:5
" The Lord has called me from the womb; from the matrix of my mother He has made mention of my name".. Isaiah 49:1,b
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