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1st U.S. gay bishop remembers Tutu’s generosity, kindness
AP ^ | Dec 26 | By HOLLY RAMER

Posted on 12/26/2021 3:16:55 PM PST by RandFan

CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — In 2008, when the Right Rev. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire was excluded from a global Anglican gathering because of his sexuality, Desmond Tutu, who died Sunday, came to his defense.

“Gene Robinson is a wonderful human being, and I am proud to belong to the same church as he,” Tutu wrote in the foreword to a book Robinson published that year.

Robinson, who in 2003 became the U.S. Episcopal Church’s first openly gay bishop, said Sunday he has been trying to live up to those words ever since.

“It was quite surreal because I was taking grief from literally around the world,” he said in a phone interview. “There was probably at that time, and maybe still, no one better known around the world than Desmond Tutu. It was an astounding gesture of generosity and kindness.”

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To: SES1066
In a normal male with such an adulterous affair, he would have been dropped as a Bishop and lucky to keep his ordination! As a homosexual, he was avant-garde and protected! Why I am an Anglican, not Episcopalian!

As my paternal grandmother said during the mid-1970s: "I didn't leave the Episcopal Church. It left me." I walked out of ECUSA in NOV 2003 after 48 years when VGR was consecrated bishop of the Diocese of NH.

Very recently I was considering checking out an ACNA parish nearby, then I read this ...

Ex-SBC Beth Moore Joins Anglican Church

Some bishops ordain women as priests and commission them as church planters.
Some bishops only ordain women as deacons.
Some bishops do not ordain women but will license a woman to serve in a particular church that requests it.
Some bishops do not receive women in Holy Orders at all.

This is especially dangerous because apart from existing no such thing biblically as a woman priest or pastrix, it creates a ready-made rift that is rife to exploit, particularly because the same scripture twisting used to allow for the ordination of women is employed to push a liberalizing position on sodomy. You’ll never find a church that is pro-LGBTQ but also doesn’t ordain women.

21 posted on 12/26/2021 4:25:38 PM PST by MacNaughton
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To: RandFan

There have been Gay bishops for centuries, most famously in the US Cardinal Spellmann. Should be first OPENLY gay bishop.


22 posted on 12/26/2021 4:27:59 PM PST by Clemenza (I have no tolerance for tolerance)
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To: libertylover

^^ this. You can’t be that far out of bounds with G-d’s natural law and have a spiritual lesson for others other than a ‘what not to do’ message.


23 posted on 12/26/2021 4:35:02 PM PST by Levy78
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To: RandFan

STFU faggot. You are neither a bishop, elder, or pastor according to God’s Word, the only thing that matters.

You are disqualified from holding such office.


24 posted on 12/26/2021 5:06:33 PM PST by Salvavida (Even now, come Lord Jesus!)
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To: RandFan

Luke 17:28-30
King James Version

28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A28-30&version=KJV

Luke 17:32
King James Version

32 Remember Lot’s wife.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%2017%3A32&version=KJV


25 posted on 12/26/2021 5:27:54 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: RandFan

Communism is great , to these people.


26 posted on 12/26/2021 6:06:45 PM PST by Aut Pax Aut Bellum (What did Socialists use before candles? Electricity)
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To: aberaussie; Aeronaut; aliquando; AlternateViewpoint; AnalogReigns; Archie Bunker on steroids; ...
In August of 2001 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) estabalished a "Full Communion Partnership" with The Episcopal Church through the adoption of "Called to Common Mission".

Therefore:



Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Christ is Born, Glorify Him!

27 posted on 12/26/2021 6:32:13 PM PST by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: servantboy777

Besides being a queer Robinson is an arrogant self-righteous jackass.


28 posted on 12/26/2021 9:21:49 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox )
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To: Clemenza

As was the late great Bishop Fulton K Sheen. Both were unashamed patriots and strong friends of the US military.


29 posted on 12/26/2021 9:35:47 PM PST by robowombat (Orthodox )
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To: RandFan

God accepts those who may be inclined towards perversion but abstain from it...so should His Church.


30 posted on 12/27/2021 3:17:42 AM PST by Wpin ("I Have Sworn Upon the Altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny...")
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To: servantboy777; lightman

......Vicki Gene Robinson......

You mean “Selfish Gene” Robinson!!!!

https://www.nature.com/articles/529462a


31 posted on 12/27/2021 10:16:14 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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