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New US church leader says homosexuality no sin
Reuters ^ | 6/19/6

Posted on 06/19/2006 1:10:35 PM PDT by SmithL

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.

Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, was elected on Sunday as the first woman leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church. the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. She will formally take office later this year.

Interviewed on CNN, Jefferts Schori was asked if it was a sin to be homosexual.

"I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said.

"Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender."

Jefferts Schori's election seemed certain to exacerbate splits within a Episcopal Church that is already deeply divided over homosexuality with several dioceses and parishes threatening to break away.

It could also widen divisions with other Anglican communities, including the Church of England, which do not allow women bishops. In the worldwide Anglican church women are bishops only in Canada, the United States and New Zealand.

Three years ago when the Church last met in convention, a majority of U.S. bishops backed the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history.

The Robinson issue has been particularly criticized in Africa where the church has a growing membership and where homosexuality is often taboo.

Jefferts Schori, who was raised a Roman Catholic and graduated in marine biology with a doctorate specialization in squids and oysters, supported the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history.

The 52-year-old bishop is married to Richard Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician. They have one daughter, Katharine Johanna, 24, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and a pilot like her mother.

Asked how she reconciled her position on homosexuality with specific passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions.

"The Bible has a great deal to teach us about how to live as human beings. The Bible does not have so much to teach us about what sorts of food to eat, what sorts of clothes to wear -- there are rules in the Bible about those that we don't observe today," she said.

"The Bible tells us about how to treat other human beings, and that's certainly the great message of Jesus -- to include the unincluded."


TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Religion & Culture; Religion & Politics
KEYWORDS: episcopal; homosexualagenda
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To: SmithL

GOD must owe Sodom and Gomorrah a big apology


41 posted on 06/19/2006 3:30:37 PM PDT by Paine's Ghost (Luv struck for Ann)
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To: SmithL
Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.

What a twisted logic this woman is using. Why would God create someone homosexual to condemn them for an act He deems an abomination? That would make God a pretty cruel entity.

I'm pretty tired of hearing liberal Christians spout the mantra "I believe that homosexuality is not a sin. I believe that God created them that way.. blah.. blah.. blah.. Who cares what you believe. It's what God says that is most important.

Speaking of which, looks like she's also ignoring Scripture that says she isn't to be a Bishop.

42 posted on 06/19/2006 3:37:31 PM PDT by FJ290
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To: SmithL

Asked how she reconciled her position on homosexuality with specific passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions.

"The Bible has a great deal to teach us about how to live as human beings. The Bible does not have so much to teach us about what sorts of food to eat, what sorts of clothes to wear -- there are rules in the Bible about those that we don't observe today," she said.

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Boy, I could post a bunch of scripture but it was written in a "a very different historical context by people asking different questions" so I won't belabor ya with it.

There is nothing new under the sun.. yada yada..

Methinks she is in for a big surprise when the fat lady sings.. jmho


43 posted on 06/19/2006 3:40:58 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (Semper Fi - Wanna help kick some liberal arse? It's not just a job here at FR, IT's an obsession.)
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To: NormsRevenge

Using the same reasoning that Schiori is using bestiality is not a sin because the primitive authors of the Bible were living in another less enlightened age. (sarcasm)


44 posted on 06/19/2006 4:09:58 PM PDT by pravknight (Liberalism under the guise of magisterial teaching is still heresy)
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To: Paine's Ghost

Leonard Ravenhill?


45 posted on 06/19/2006 4:15:33 PM PDT by fwdude (If at first you don't succeed .......... form a committee and hire a consultant.)
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To: Rome2000

Ooooooo...now that takes me back


46 posted on 06/19/2006 5:11:07 PM PDT by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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To: Haruka3

And, heterosexual sodomy is no less an abomination than homosexual sodomy - so if you're guilty of sexually abusing a woman in such a fashion...

KNOCK IT THE HELL OFF!!


47 posted on 06/19/2006 5:15:15 PM PDT by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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To: Zetman

No, you're on the money...He describes this in the Gospels when speaking of adultery...same concept for the homosexual lust as a heterosexual lust...


48 posted on 06/19/2006 5:27:54 PM PDT by phatus maximus (John 6:29...Learn it, love it, live it...)
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To: SmithL

Amen to your statement...My jaw dropped when I read the article...What can one say to this? So sad to see the souls of many being pulled in the absolute wrong direction...


49 posted on 06/19/2006 5:31:06 PM PDT by phatus maximus (John 6:29...Learn it, love it, live it...)
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To: Paine's Ghost
GOD must owe Sodom and Gomorrah a big apology

You beat me to it!
50 posted on 06/19/2006 5:34:50 PM PDT by VOA
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To: SmithL

What Church? The Church of Satan?


51 posted on 06/19/2006 5:38:16 PM PDT by ladyinred (Liberals are dangerous for America.)
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To: SmithL

Well, it's either God makes mistakes by putting male psyches in female bodies and vice-versa or some folks are whistling past the graveyard as hard as they can.


52 posted on 06/19/2006 5:41:48 PM PDT by stboz
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To: SmithL

Not to sound too judgemental, the Liberal Christian have wrecked the Episcopal Chuch in America,this is no longer a Church in the strictest sense of the word.


53 posted on 06/19/2006 6:04:24 PM PDT by GregH
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To: A Troop 1-14 Cav
1) Apparantly one of those gifts is for certain guys to place their genitals into the rectal orifice of another guy.

I'm reminded of when The Gay Gene (Robinson) said that he felt that penile-anal contact with his "partner" was tantamount to a sacrament.

54 posted on 06/19/2006 6:14:02 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: SmithL

Pending schism not withstanding--this denomination in reality is already split between goats and sheep.


55 posted on 06/19/2006 6:14:40 PM PDT by ViLaLuz (Stop the ACLU - Support the Public Expression of Religion Act 2005 - Call your congressmen.)
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To: ViLaLuz

There are still plenty of good people in the church that, in my opinion, have their heads in the sand. I had to go where I could worship honestly.


56 posted on 06/19/2006 6:21:19 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Let us not flinch from identifying liberalism as the opposition party to God.)
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To: GregH

Quite right. It is no longer a church. Anglicans & Episcopalians prayed for some clarity to come out of this General Convention. As the old saying goes...you have to be careful what you pray for. Sometimes God answers our prayers in ways we never could imagine &, although He always works for good, it doesn't always relieve our personal suffering.

Schori's election provides an important bit of clarity, not necessarily to the rest of the Anglican world, but to every Episcopalian who continues to sit on the fence...if they will only have ears to hear. By Schori's own words, the Episcopal Church USA has moved beyond heresy to apostasy. It is no longer a Christian "church" fulfilling its commision to spread The Gospel - it is, rather, a fully secularized institution whose "first priority" is to effect temporal socio-political change. Schori makes that clear in her statements to the press....

"Jefferts Schori told members of the press on Sunday, "One of the great actions of this General Convention has been to name 'Justice and Peace' as the first priority of this church." "Justice and Peace" includes promotion of the eight Millennial Development Goals of the United Nations, yet its prioritization makes evangelism a low priority for the already shrinking mainline church."

There it is, folks. The ECUSA has become nothing more than a political action group cloaked in the trappings of pseudo-Christian ritual - sort of a cross between the National Organization of Women & the Masonic Lodge! Sadly...tragically...most of the poor slobs warming the pews in their ECUSA "churches" haven't a clue that they have been co-opted by the radical left, who don't give a tinker's damn about their spiritual health in this life or their eternal salvation for the next. Is it any wonder that the Anglican Primates in Africa are now sending missionaries to the United States?


57 posted on 06/19/2006 6:22:49 PM PDT by torqemada ("Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!")
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58 posted on 06/19/2006 6:48:47 PM PDT by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† | Iran Azadi | SONY: 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0urs)
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To: SmithL

Why would a Christian belong to the Episcopal Church?


59 posted on 06/19/2006 6:51:12 PM PDT by kittymyrib
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To: torqemada

Well, we were warned in 2 Timothy 3(the Apostasy Predicted) that would happen during this age. Accepting homosexuality is just part of the whole stage of the so-called "Christian" church. Unfortunately, it will only get worse.


60 posted on 06/19/2006 6:55:19 PM PDT by nuclady
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