Posted on 03/11/2008 9:39:15 AM PDT by SmithL
The first openly gay Episcopal bishop announced he will have no official role in a meeting this summer of world Anglican leaders, saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him "considerable pain."
New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson had been told last year that he could not fully participate in the once-a-decade gathering in England, called the Lambeth Conference, as the world Anglican Communion sat on the brink of schism over his 2003 election.
Still, Episcopal leaders had been negotiating with the Anglican Communion Office to allow him to join the event in some capacity. The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the U.S.
At a Texas meeting Monday night of the Episcopal House of Bishops, Robinson said that the final offer to include him was in effect a "non-offer," and he had declined it.
Anglican leaders said Robinson could "be present" in the conference Marketplace, or convention hall, where exhibitors and church agencies set up stalls, and that he could participate in one "high profile" event, such as a news conference, at the 20-day summit. The exhibit hall is open to the public, while the Lambeth discussions are private.
Robinson told the bishops in Texas that ever since he got word of the proposal late last Friday, "I have been in considerable pain." He said he had hoped to participate in Bible study and small group discussions with other bishops.
"I am dismayed and sickhearted that we can't sit around a table, as brothers and sisters in Christ, and study Scripture together," he said. "It makes me wonder, if we can't sit around a table and study the Bible together, what kind of Communion do we have and what are we trying to save?"
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But don’t they know that he is of the Master Race?
I am dismayed and sickhearted that this pervert is a bishop in my church. He is a self-absorbed putz.
He’s getting married after the conference..he said he always wanted to be a JUne bride...
Geez, homosexuals are such narcissists.
I am dismayed and sickhearted . . .
Why, it makes me so upset I could just stamp my little feet and pout.
“...restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him “considerable pain.”
Yeh! Like the “No after hours gay orgies” restriction.
So he’s out of rehab at the moment?
Alrighty then. How bout the pain that shot down the central nervous system of the 70 million member Anglican communion when you were consecrated.
Talk about self centered.
Are you serious? Hopefully it'll happen in the church.
That should wake a few up to the blatant hypocrisy of the Episcopal church.
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Hey, Vicki Gene baby! You caused us considerable pain until we had an attack of good sense and went Straight Over to Rome.
Where they have adult leadership and acknowledge the concept of Sin.
One of my best friends in our old ECUSA church had a cousin in NH who sat on committees with the Bishop of New Hampster. She said, "It's always about Gene. Has always been all about Gene."
All that is Bishop Robinson needs to do to receive a full invitation is repent and desist in his extramarital relations and his encouragement of similar sins in others.
Since the St. Andrew's cross has additional meaning in the South, it's absence could also signify a hyper-liberal church.
I doubt that a CANA church would be hyper-liberal.
Let me guess...
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