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Episcopal Church One Step Closer To A Gay Bishop
Episcopal Church ^ | 8-1-03 | Episcopal News Service

Posted on 08/01/2003 12:53:15 PM PDT by The Anti-Democrat

After listening to two hours of testimony from bishops, deputies and visitors Friday morning, the legislative committee on the Consecration of Bishops endorsed the ratification of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson, as bishop-coadjutor of New Hampshire. The measure now heads to the House of Deputies for a vote.

Robinson is the first openly gay priest to be elected bishop in the Episcopal Church.

“The committee has made its decision,” committee co-chair, the Rev. Karolyn Keil-Kuhr of the Diocese of Montana, told the ballroom packed with at least 500 attendees; some 200 more were in the lobby, and 100 more were in an overflow room.

Keil-Kuhr asked that the decision be “received with grace” by those in attendance. “We would appreciate no applause, no cheering. I remind you this is not the final action,” she said, announcing that the committee has “voted to adopt resolution C045.”

Bishops with jurisdiction in geographic areas of the church will also vote on the measure.

More on this story will be posted soon.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Philosophy
KEYWORDS: altarboysarescared; bishop; episcopal; generalconvention; homosexualagenda; schism; whataretheythinking
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Guess I'll be looking for a new church now.
1 posted on 08/01/2003 12:53:15 PM PDT by The Anti-Democrat
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To: The Anti-Democrat
There are Roman Catholic parishes which use the traditional Anglican Book of Common Prayer. They are generally more conservative than the average Catholic parish, and they are generally administered by pastors who split from the Anglican Church for the same reasons which anger you.
2 posted on 08/01/2003 12:57:25 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
And I wouldn't be surprised if there were much better Anglican parishes in Africa that have sister congregations in the US.
3 posted on 08/01/2003 12:58:21 PM PDT by wideawake (God bless our brave soldiers and their Commander in Chief)
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To: The Anti-Democrat
The Catholic Church is nice :)

You're certainly welcome . . .

Living in the South will turn ANYONE into an evangelist . . . I'm living proof!

4 posted on 08/01/2003 1:00:58 PM PDT by JohnnyZ (Bumper sticker: "Keep honking -- I'm reloading")
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To: wideawake
They already do. It's called the Anglican Mission in America.

For example, NEW YORK ANGLICANS INAUGURATE SECOND AMIA PARISH IN NEW YORK CITY

By Ken Okorie

On the heels of his initial and successful outing of June 29 to Atlanta, The Most Rev. Benjamin Nwankiti, retired Archbishop of Province Two and former Dean of the Church of Nigeria, inaugurated a second Anglican outpost in New York on Sunday, July 20, 2003.

His host, The Rev. Dr. M. Joe Omeokwe is an Anglican priest and professor and department head in the City of New York University system. He used to serve at the rectory of a local Episcopal church until he incurred the wrath of ECUSA for voicing his belief that homosexuality is unnatural, unchristian, unbiblical and has no place in the church.

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5 posted on 08/01/2003 1:06:50 PM PDT by Eala
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To: The Anti-Democrat
As an Episcopalian, I am ever so grateful that my children are grown and on their own.

All of them were smart enough as teenagers that they would have questioned why I would discipline them for any of their misdeeds which were ONLY of the "Thou shalt not" variety when an officer of the national church was a practicing, non-repentant of an abomination.

6 posted on 08/01/2003 1:08:47 PM PDT by N. Theknow
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To: The Anti-Democrat
There is no longer an Episcopal Church worthy of the name. It has been subverted and corrupted by the pagans and godless in its midst.
7 posted on 08/01/2003 1:10:21 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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To: goldstategop
As with so many mainlines. But then, our heavenly Father told us there'd be days like this.
8 posted on 08/01/2003 1:13:33 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: The Anti-Democrat
Send him to fond du lac he will be a poster boy there
9 posted on 08/01/2003 1:21:36 PM PDT by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: goldstategop
The Episcopal Church is pagan, Godless AND irrelevant.

The consecration of a homosexual Bishop should drive a stake through its heart. It will also eliminate an important prop that the royals use to maintain their throne. QE and her feckless brood have been as pagan, Godless and irrelevant as the Anglican church they have sworn an oath to support. It is time for them both to go.

10 posted on 08/01/2003 1:33:18 PM PDT by gaspar
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To: anniegetyourgun
Exactly right. The Bible clearly predicted this embracing of what is evil and immoral. It is painful nontheless. But God is will right this once and and for all.
11 posted on 08/01/2003 1:33:19 PM PDT by bluebunny
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To: lemondropkid56
Should be ~But God will right this once and and for all.~

12 posted on 08/01/2003 1:34:38 PM PDT by bluebunny
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To: anniegetyourgun
Almighty God is going to "clean house". It started years ago with the Evangelicals, then it moved on to and is still going on with the Cathholic Church and now comes the Anglican Church house cleaning.

I read a disturbing article about all the Anglican churches in England that are being sold to Muslims and converted into mosques..."the spirit of anti-Christ that is now in the world"...that does not mean "against-Christ" as much as it means "replace-Christ".

I believe that this "house cleaning" is also occuring in all the "main-stream" denominational churches that have become "liberal" in thei doctrine. You can see it in the dramitic drop in member numbers of all those denominations.

If any church body that does not hold to the truth of the "Godhood" of Jesus the Anointed One.

If any church body that does not hold to the truth that Jesus is the Only Begotten Son of Almighty God and that Jesus was God come in the flesh.

If any church body that does not hold to the truth that Jesus Christ is "the only way, the true way, the way to eternal life".

If any church body that does not hold to the truth that Jesus Christ is the Word of God made flesh and dwelt among us.

If any church body that does not hold to the truth of that the Holy Spirit of God is the Divine inspiration of the infallible scripture in the Bible.

Then, as it says in the book of Revelation "their candle shall be removed from their lampstand".

Only churches that are preaching the true, pure Gospel of Jesus Christ shall grow and prosper. And the good news is that there are many, and they are growing in every state, and even all over the world.

13 posted on 08/01/2003 1:39:17 PM PDT by KriegerGeist ("The weapons of our warefare are not carnal, but mighty though God for pulling down of strongholds")
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To: The Anti-Democrat
The Episcopalian church hierarchy circles the toilet bowl... soon to be followed by its new partner in crime, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Too bad, but at least it sounds like some African Episcopalian bishops will split off- if so, then good for them.

So what do you suppose most people will do? Talk or walk? My mother is reluctant to discard 70 years in the Lutheran church she was raised in, but maybe that is what the sodomites are counting on: calling everyone's bluff, because they know a lot of people won't leave... that would be too "hard." Well, in the end, Jesus Christ will do all the sorting out, and we had best believe that he will know each heart, and he will know exactly who had the courage and conviction to be true to His church and His word. He will probably not be pleased with this bunch of comfortable, worldly turds who are willing to turn His temple into a New Age bathhouse...

...nor will he be happy with the ones who stay in an apostate denomination, pretending it's not all that bad yet. The alternatives are out there, and they will rejoice when the faithful walk in the doors.

14 posted on 08/01/2003 1:43:30 PM PDT by niteowl77 (If you aren't still praying for our troops, then you had best take it up again.)
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So what do you suppose most people will do? Talk or walk?

I walked years ago. Sad. I was in the choir for years, and went on retreats to a Society of St. James monastary, etc., but saw what was happening long ago. I miss it, but it's gone, and it will not be back.

15 posted on 08/01/2003 2:15:14 PM PDT by Gorzaloon (Contents may have settled during shipping, but this tagline contains the stated product weight.)
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To: edskid
So what do you suppose most people will do? Talk or walk?

The Anglican Mainstream movement presents an alternative. Basically, we'll stay in the church, but ignore this convention. Our focus will shift to the Orthodox 90% of the Anglican Communion, with whom we'll do God's work according to His will. We will flourish.

A bishop who wants to put a stop to this must argue that homosexuality trumps all of that -- something even they wouldn't do. (And if they did, so what? They'll end up with an expensive church building that they can't fill, but have to support.)

God will make this work for the best, so long as there are faithful people willing to make it happen.

16 posted on 08/01/2003 2:23:02 PM PDT by r9etb
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To: The Anti-Democrat
Is this the one that dumped his wife and kids to run off with his gay 'lover'? If so, he should be fired whether the lover is gay or straight.
17 posted on 08/01/2003 2:36:29 PM PDT by Vinnie
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To: edskid
My mother is reluctant to discard 70 years in the Lutheran church she was raised in

She won't have to, if she finds a home in the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod or Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. This cross-pulpit exchange is one of the reasons I choose the LCMS church 30 miles away rather than the ELCA church two blocks away. I wish her success in finding a new church home.

18 posted on 08/01/2003 2:42:45 PM PDT by CanisMajor2002 (The more protection government provides one group, the more security is lost by everyone else.)
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To: Geist Krieger
True enough. The Body of Christ is growing outside the U.S. - esp. southern hemisphere. I hope they will send missionaries to this nation.
19 posted on 08/01/2003 3:16:30 PM PDT by anniegetyourgun
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To: Vinnie
One point that I have yet to see in the discussion about Robinson is found in 1 Tim 3:2 - an "overseer" is to be ...the husband of one wife. "Overseer" is the Greek word episcopos - look familiar?

"epi" = "over"
"scopos" = "to look, or see"
Therefore, an episcopos is an overseer.

And so Robinson fails the qualification twice:

* He is divorced from his wife
* He is living with another man, not a woman.

Therefore, he is twice disqualified. And I have not even spoken about the admonition in this passage to bring up his children to be godly (he has two daughters), or that the overseer must be "above reproach." And his lifestyle has brought great reproach to himself and the ECUSA.

Oh well. They aren't interested in what the Bible says.
20 posted on 08/01/2003 3:18:24 PM PDT by LiteKeeper
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