US gay bishop asks for blessing -

WorldNetDaily ^ | July 20, 2003

[UnklGene]

US gay bishop asks for blessing

Canon Robinson said leaving his wife was his greatest risk United States clergyman Canon Gene Robinson - the first openly gay Anglican bishop to be elected - has called on the Church of England to bless his appointment. "Relationships that are mutual and loving, relationships that are monogamous, life-long intentioned and faithful - that's what the church is about to bless I hope," he told the BBC Radio 4's Today programme.

The Church of England threatened to split over the recent appointment to the post of Bishop of Reading of the gay priest Canon Jeffrey John, who was forced to step down.

But Canon Robinson of New Hampshire said even if Archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams did not give his personal blessing, his appointment would go ahead.

"I would hope some day that he would acknowledge this as a good and positive step in the right direction...[but] I don't believe that his blessing is prerequisite to us taking action here," he said.

Practising homosexual

Unlike Canon John, Canon Robinson says he is not celibate.

"I think it's important to understand that celibacy is a gift given to some but certainly not to all," he told the BBC.

GAY BISHOP ROW

Where does Anglican balance of power lie? "I would say it's not God's intention for all gay and lesbian people to be celibate, just as it's not that gift given to all those who are heterosexual."

Canon Robinson says he left his wife when God called him to acknowledge himself as a gay man.

He describes that decision as the biggest risk of his life, but says he has been rewarded by the love of a wonderful partner with whom he has lived for the past 13 years.

Canon Robinson has served the diocese of New Hampshire for nearly 30 years and is considered eminently qualified to be a bishop.

But his election could have a major impact on the wider Anglican communion.

The Canon has been reportedly described as "the most dangerous man in the American church".

Some 24 conservative bishops in the US have threatened to join others in Asia, Africa and South America to break ties with the Episcopalian church if the appointment goes ahead.

[Lijahsbubbe]

God called him to acknowledge himself as a gay man....

Bwahahahahahaha! That's comedy!

[UnklGene]

Canon Robinson says he left his wife when God called him to acknowledge himself as a gay man.

God said: "Be 'gay,' leave your wife, don't multiply, go straight to Hell!" ( then collect $200. )

[AppyPappy]

I guess that vow he took with his wife was meaningless.

[Paul Atreides]

We witnessing an attempted takeover of churches? If churches keep giving in to homosexuals, I won't be a bit surprised to come on this site one day and see an article posted about how the new all-homosexual clergies will define marriage as an union of only people of the same sex.

[Lijahsbubbe]

Sorry, but I have to say it. He wants a blessing to stick his penis in another man's anus. (i.e. poop-sex)

[Paul Atreides]

Odd how God didn't tell him to come out of the closet BEFORE he destroyed his ex-wife's life.

[Paul Atreides]

He wants a blessing to stick his penis in another man's anus.

And, I'm sure his definition of who qualifies as a old enough to be a "man" will vary.

[I still care]

From Paul's instructions to the Corinthians:

"And if you are married, stay married. This is the Master's command, not mine. If a wife should leave her husband, she must either remain single or else come back and make things right with him. And a husband has no right to get rid of his wife."

"For the rest of you who are in mixed marriages--Christian married to nonChristian--we have no explicit command from the Master. So this is what you must do. If you are a man with a wife who is not a believer but who still wants to live with you, hold on to her. If you are a woman with a husband who is not a believer but he wants to live with you, hold on to him."

It seems to me that God is not so changable that he tells this man to do something that in his word he expressly tells Christians NOT to do. This man is supremely unfit to pastor over any Christians.

God will never tell you to "leave your wife" to fulfill a lust with another person.

[nightdriver]

I don't know if it's a flaw in the theological teaching of the Episcopal Church or not, but Gene Robinson is completely devoid of knowledge of God's purpose for mankind.

I suspect that it's just the logical end of the liberalism that has infected the organized church in general, i.e., "we're 'liberated' from God's absolutes."

[mrmeyer]

Somebody ought to tell Canon Robinson to read the Book of Leviticus.

[AngrySpud]

" ... read the book ... "

In an article posted yesterday, this same deviant claimed the Bible was "written for another time." Appalling.

[LiteKeeper]

INTREP

[VOA]

Canon Robinson says he left his wife when God called him to acknowledge himself as a gay man.

Some "clean comedian" from some church could have a field day with this one.
Something along the lines of Bill Cosby's routine about G-d giving Noah the message.

[Comus]

The Episcopal Church, like the Church of England, is dying, and the notion that adopting exotic gay mascots will make either more relevant is highly doubtful. Those congregational attendance statistics tell their own story: Nobody needs a religion that licenses one's appetites.

Mark Steyn

I can't say it any better.

[VOA]

I guess that vow he took with his wife was meaningless.

Maybe he thinks he has some sort of special revelation and the following passage
isn't relevant to his situation:

Romans 1
26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their
women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their
lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and
receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.

I can imagine the new bishop saying to G-d "...you say that like it's sort of a bad thing...
(to have same-sex adventures)".
These days I wonder if passages like this (and the one concering the millstone
around the neck) are not included in the Bibles at seminary.

Or if seminary students are allowed to "opt-out" of classes on morality and ethics.

[VOA]

just asking a favor...
comus, do you have a link to the Mark Steyn article with that text?
...thanks in advance