Posted on 08/10/2003 10:18:23 AM PDT by churchillbuff
This is exactly right. This is a moral issue that can split the democrat party and make them the effing pariahs that they should be. I do not however, share Pat's belief that the issue is "split" - polls show overwhelmingly that people have had enough and that they are against gay marraige.
Hey, the man makes sense more often than not. Maybe you're just not listening with an open mind.
Oh, and Bump!
Pat isn't a Reverand. He is a consistent social conservative and a vocal practicing Catholic.
It's a pity you don't know when you're reading Buchanan or Robinson. it would lend so much more more to your argument.
Disclaimer: I am not a Catholic and I don't play one on TV.
The vote says more about those voting than it does about the 'reprobate'. Time for a 'protestant' revolt among the Episcopal faithful.
Pat hits another one out. The more one reads what Pat actually says the closer we will be to the truth.
I have to say that this close relationship between the Anglican Church is not long, but a fairly recent development. It began with the Oxford Movement in England in 1833. There was great resistance in the Anglican Communion to this reforming of religious practice and doctrine to follow that of the Catholic Church.
The Episcopal Church of the USA used to be have the official name of the Protestant Episcopal Church. Dropping the Protestant qualifier didn't happen until the last half of the 20th century. Morning prayer used to be the most typical form of Sunday worship. Now it is Holy Communion, but that is a change that happened only within the last 50 years.
I don't know many Episcopalians who think of themselves as Anglo-Catholics, althouth there are certainly some. And there has been a trend in the chuch to move in a Catholic direction in many respects. But certainly the ordination of women is not part of this tendency.
I was meaning it in a reverence sense, but since you had to me so arrogant in your assessment, let me clarify for you.
I rearely agree with Pat Robertson, who has attended Seminary, but for once, we are in agreement.
Better? Happy I made the statement factually correct?
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