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Saint Gene?
Stand Firm ^ | 1/17/2007 | Greg Griffith

Posted on 01/17/2007 5:26:12 PM PST by sionnsar

[If you're holding any beverages I recommend one last sip or swallow, then set the container down somewhere far away from the violent reaction that will ensue when you finish reading this post. You have been duly warned. --sionnsar]

No need to check your calendar. It is not April 1st.

I already checked:

When King was assassinated in April 1968, the nation believed that another person with his moral conviction and social gospel ethic would not come along.

And in light of today’s queer civil rights struggles with members of King’s own family—like his niece Alveda King saying queer civil rights are special rights, and his daughter Bernice stating that her father did not take a bullet for same-sex marriage—the LGBTQ community must ask: Who is our Martin Luther King Jr. today?

However, much of the reason the question is necessary is because King's vision of justice and moral leadership is often gravely limited by others and misunderstood. As a matter of fact, too many people thought then, and continue to think now, that King's statements regarding justice and moral leadership were only about race and the African-American community. They fail to see how King's vision of justice and moral leadership was far wider and challenging than we might have once imagined.

For King, justice was more than a racial, legal, or moral issue; justice was a human issue and had to be addressed anywhere it was being denied. And this was evident in King's passionate concern about a broad range of concerns. "The revolution for human rights is opening up unhealthy areas in American life and permitting a new and wholesome healing to take place," King once told a racially mixed audience. "Eventually the civil rights movement will have contributed infinitely more to the nation than the eradication of racial injustice."

Moral leadership played a profound role in the justice work that King did. As the nation looks for a new King, the LGBTQ community need not look any further, because he is right among us—the Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson.



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1 posted on 01/17/2007 5:26:13 PM PST by sionnsar
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2 posted on 01/17/2007 5:27:04 PM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: sionnsar

Can dash-board statues, fridge magnets and holy cards be far behind?


3 posted on 01/17/2007 5:29:44 PM PST by Gman (AMiA Priest.)
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To: sionnsar

Has the Rev. King hit oil yet?


4 posted on 01/17/2007 5:29:50 PM PST by MAexile (Bats left, votes right)
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To: sionnsar
They fail to see how King's vision of justice and moral leadership was far wider and challenging than we might have once imagined.

Abraham Lincoln suffered the same fate.
5 posted on 01/17/2007 5:31:36 PM PST by Man50D (Fair Tax , you earn it , you keep it!)
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To: sionnsar

Not being a fan of King's, I have no trouble with the comparison.


6 posted on 01/17/2007 5:37:49 PM PST by PAR35
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To: sionnsar

Maybe the Episcopalians will make a silly fake icon of Robinson like the one they have of MLK.


7 posted on 01/17/2007 5:52:38 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
Maybe the Episcopalians will make a silly fake icon of Robinson like the one they have of MLK.

Ummm, K... Okay....

I was not at all familiar with icons until the past couple of years (call it my "low-church" upbringing?). To what are you referring?

8 posted on 01/17/2007 7:18:35 PM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com†|Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: sionnsar
This:


9 posted on 01/17/2007 7:57:05 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: sionnsar
As the nation looks for a new King, the LGBTQ community need not look any further, because he is right among us—the Right Reverend V. Gene Robinson.

What an epiphany! All along I thought that VGR was a Queen.

10 posted on 01/17/2007 8:41:52 PM PST by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised)
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To: Kolokotronis; Bokababe; lightman
Looks like a fakey Episcopal "icon" to me. (I have seen it before.)

Thanks to my prayer addition at my Lutheran church last Sunday (I was serving as Assisting Minister), St. Sava stole the limelight from M.L. King. It was St. Sava's Day in the Gregorian calendar, so I added a commemoration of St. Sava before the one for King. I called St. Sava "the first apostle of the Serbs and a saint of both East and West". I was not allowed to get away with the title "equal to the Apostles", which is "too Orthodox" for our Lutheran congregation.

As for "Selfish Gene" Robinson, I mention him as little as possible. And for those of you who still don't get why I give him that moniker, look up "Selfish Gene" on Google!!

11 posted on 01/18/2007 8:02:09 AM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: Honorary Serb
" I added a commemoration of St. Sava before the one for King"

Go HS! Thanks!

12 posted on 01/18/2007 12:00:27 PM PST by Bokababe ( http://www.savekosovo.org)
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To: Honorary Serb
I called St. Sava "the first apostle of the Serbs and a saint of both East and West".

Dr. Pfatteicher, in his book on LBW Commemoratins, uses "apostle to the north" in describing St. Angsar.

13 posted on 01/18/2007 12:30:13 PM PST by lightman (The Office of the Keys should be exercised as some ministry needs to be exorcised)
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To: lightman; Bokababe; Kolokotronis

St. Ansgar (Sweden) is an Orthodox saint as well as a Western one.So are Sts. Boniface (Germany), Olaf (Norway), Aidan (Britain), Patrick (Ireland), and many others.

St. Sava stands out as a saint of both East and West who lived AFTER both the Great Schism and the brutal 1204 Frankish conquest (called a "crusade") of Constantinople. It seems he was an Orthodox bishop who was nice to the papists in Serbia, too.

Among Lutherans, the "micro-Lutheran" Evangelical Catholic Church has St. Sava in its Kalendar. With the cockeyed elimination of commemorations of Russian saints in the ELCA's feminazi and anti-O/orthodox new hymnal, it's DOUBLY important to remember St. Sava!!!!


14 posted on 01/18/2007 12:42:57 PM PST by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: sionnsar

We need a new national holiday.


15 posted on 01/18/2007 7:51:10 PM PST by kaehurowing
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