Posted on 04/11/2020 6:20:43 AM PDT by rochester
Plans to turn the Cathedral of St. John the Divine into a vast coronavirus field hospital were abruptly shelved on Thursday, with public health officials saying that a leveling off in virus-related hospitalizations in New York City had made them reassess the need for the project.
But behind the scenes, Episcopal leaders said they were upset by the role played in the project by Samaritan’s Purse, an evangelical humanitarian organization whose approach to L.G.B.T. issues runs counter to that of the Episcopal Diocese of New York, which is based out of the cathedral.
Samaritan’s Purse is led by the Rev. Franklin Graham, who has been criticized for anti-Muslim and anti-L.G.B.T.Q. rhetoric and whose organization is based on a statement of faith that includes a belief that “marriage is exclusively the union of one genetic male and one genetic female.”
The Episcopal Church did not realize that Samaritan’s Purse would be involved in the project when it offered the use of the cathedral to Mount Sinai Health System last month, and the slowing rate of hospitalizations might have created an opportunity for all parties to step back from a fraught situation, officials said.
Dean Clifton Daniel III, the cathedral’s leader, said he thought Samaritan’s Purse would not be back.
“The cathedral and Samaritan’s Purse have very different creeds and very different core beliefs and commitments,” Dean Daniel said......
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The Cathedral has been turned into a demonic house of worship by Satan.
Shame on the Episcopal Leaders. SHAME
Title of the article should say fake christians upset at real Christians adherence to scripture
Let the dead bury the dead.
Ridiculous
Politics over genuine humane and free offers to ease suffering.
If this doesn’t tell you what the Episcopal Church has become, nothing will
Because their views on gays are what we should all be concerned about during a pandemic. I’d say unbelievable, but it’s to be expected from the left. They never put aside the politics.
John 3:19-20
This is the verdict: Light has come into the world, but people loved darkness instead of light because their deeds were evil. Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that their deeds will be exposed.
Samaritans Purse turns no one away.
The queer lobby is concerned because they cannot control what SP personnel think.
But they have no issue with letting a Muslim group that teaches real hate and murder as a way to deal with non-believers. Idiots.
How many millions of people have died because of HIV including infants?
Take your charitable work where it is appreciated Reverend In particular rural areas and red states
Because of income inequality and racism the virus has targeted blacks and browns, same garbage
This reminds me of the Alphabet People’s outrage of Chick-Fil-A. They have never claimed discrimination at the restaurants. They were outraged that the founders thought that marriage was exclusively between men and women. No one has claimed that Samaritan’s Purse Hospital has turned away anyone—doctors, nurses or patients. It’s the idea that real marriage is exclusively between men and women that is somehow controversial.
Note that they had to include the modifier ‘genetic’ in the statement. That is how far down the rabbit hole we’ve gone. And this change in view was determined by the votes of five unelected men and women.
In a global crisis, a New York Jewish hospital can team up with orthodox Christians, but the Episcopal Church can't. Says it all, really.
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