Posted on 05/21/2006 5:56:57 PM PDT by sionnsar
People choose to sin. People may not choose to be gay (just as many of us did not "choose" to be heterosexual), but we most certainly do choose to act. Being gay is not a sin; engaging in homosexual acts is. God forgives sinners (all of us are), HE DOES NOT ask us to "celebrate" sin and be happy for sinners while they are committing their sin.
If this woman was actually called by God, she's selective in her hearing. And if she's not comfortable with scripture, she should start her own church, instead (although she'll need lots of prayers!!!).
I never understood this.
Traditional Anglican ping, continued in memory of its founder Arlin Adams. "two women" "ordained" that's where the problem began.
Well, the problem really began long before that -- but it's all a difference in where you set the threshold.
I was going to read it before pinging you, and then it got very long. So I never did get to the main point!
Someone who can LIE to herself so well is either sick, evil or stupid. I do doubt that she is stupid....after all, a YALE graduate. Mymymy, that leaves only two other alternatives.
How CAN such smart, educated people talk themselves into such evil or sickness?
I NEVER did either.
As I wrote above, she is either evil or sick.
A bishop can place people such as this in parishes till kingdom come, and the press can also write these poor-little-me pieces till they run out of ink, but they cannot force sincere Christians - and particularly people who willingly pay up on a generous pledge every week - to continue membership in these parishes where they will be forced to sit and listen to this heretical, gnostic, Da Vinci Code type of Gospel week in and week out. That is what the administrators and the social-tinkerers do not seem to understand.
<< I never understood this. >>
If evil is but the absence of Truth all that is required of us is that we recognize evil, not that we understand it.
The suggestion is offered elsewhere in this thread that the subject of the piece is "either evil or sick."
She is of couse, both sick and evil.
The evil includes that the truth about her and about the mental illness of every other "homosexual" has been called a lie. And that from that false premise descends the compounding insanity that every "homosexual's" every insane lie is called "truth" and his every perverted and degenerate and abnormal and sad action and activity is called "normal."
And even, God forbid, "gay."
I see it as perverted individuals putting their own selfish wishes before the whole Church. They try to change the Church for their personal agenda, and when the Church kicks back they claim it's unjust.
When you join a club, you accept the rules. If you don't like the rules, then join a different club.
"How CAN such smart, educated people talk themselves into such evil or sickness?"
Pride, the oldest sins of all.
Correction to last post
sins should have said sin
Sorry.
When schism comes, and the churches in Canada and the US are booted out of the Anglican Communion, they can then join together, and rename themselves...Episcopal Church and Anglican Church of Canada..ECACA...sounds apt, doesn't it..?
One of the seven deadly sins, as I remember.
Yes, it does.
They can join the gay parades around the world, with an ECACA entry of homosexual priests marching embracing their same-sex partners, with children probably. "All it takes is l-o-v-e" and "legalize love" banners can top their march, hand in hand, with a cross and Anglican banner, of course.
They could march right behind the traditional parade starters here in San Francisco: 1. dykes on bikes (motorcyles) and 2. fags on nags (bare buttock men, with chaps and boots, that is ALL). That disgusting, vile parade is coming up next month.
The homosexual voice in America downplays the re-showing of the parade in sound bites because the "voice" desperately tries to "normalize" their abyssmally abnormal lifestyle....which is REAL hard to do with images of "dykes on bikes" and "fags on nags." Harhar. When they first held the parade, YEARS AGO, they were DESPERATE for air time, until they realized how that air time was used against them.
There once was a group of obese lesbians who marched en masse and I do mean en masse in the parade. I called them the Liavathonn Lesbians. They were all 400-pounders. Homo-blubbos on the march. They only did it one year. I think they lacked the stamina to be on their feet, without food for that long.
I know I'm imagining a horrible scenario. You'd think they would have too much dignity for such a disgusting display, but I don't put it past them. Their homosexuality seems FAR MORE important to them than their calling. Otherwise, we wouldn't even know about their homosexuality because they would be CHASTE, UNMARRIED and faithful to the teachings of Jesus.
Here in the San Francisco bay area there's a sick, vile, hell-bound group called the "Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence"....but you don't want to get me started.....
These women were/are insurgents.
My sentiments exactly...I could not have stated it better!
More evidence of how Satan softens up the world for attack, by confusing the minds of men.
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