Posted on 06/24/2009 7:36:16 AM PDT by NYer
Episcopalian Priest, the Rev. Nina Churchman wrote a letter to Episcopal Life Online saying that women shouldn't have to ask for forgiveness for aborting a child. In fact, Rev. Churchman then goes one step further and says God rejoices in the woman's choice to abort. Here's the text in full:
After reading the 3 June article, "Pregnancy-loss Prayers", I found the text for Rachel's Tears online and was sickened to discover that the rite for abortion is couched wholly in terms of sin and transgression. The Episcopal Church, by resolution, has long held that women have the freedom to choose an abortion. It is not considered a sin. That this new rite begins with the words, "I seek God's forgiveness..." and includes "God rejoices that you have come seeking God's merciful forgiveness..." is contrary to the resolution. Women should be able to mourn the loss of an aborted fetus without having to confess anything. God, unlike what the liturgy states, also rejoices that women facing unplanned pregnancies have the freedom to carefully choose the best option - birth, adoption or abortion - for themselves and their families. No woman makes this decision lightly or frivolously. But each needs the non-judgmental and non-coercive support of her faith community to make the best decision for her circumstances.Firstly, the question of sin being based on resolution seems strange to me. I wonder if before that resolution passed, did Churchman believe abortion was a sin. I'd bet not. What if at some future date the Episcopal Church reinstates abortion as a sin, do some people in Heaven then have to go to Hell?
The wording of this liturgy focuses solely on guilt and sin instead of the grief and healing that may accompany a very difficult but appropriate decision to terminate a pregnancy. If anyone is paying attention at the General Convention, this rite should not be approved.
Deuteronomy 19:10 That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Psalms 94:21 They gather themselves together against the soul of the righteous, and condemn the innocent blood.
Psalms 106:38 And shed innocent blood, even the blood of their sons and of their daughters, whom they sacrificed unto the idols of Canaan: and the land was polluted with blood.
Proverbs 6:17 A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
Isaiah 59:7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths
Joel 3:19 Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land.
Free Republic apparently had a seizure when I submitted my post! lol
“How much lower can one sink and still proclaim to serve God?”
Can’t get any lower than this so-called “Priest/Priestess”.
As a former cradle Episcopalian, I say that the former Episcopal “Church” is hopeless.
The problem is that the Radicals and degenerates who have infiltrated and taken over the Church have siezed an organization that controls a huge amount of assets that have accumulated over the years. They will leverage these assets to use them to further try to destroy orthodox Christianity and traditional values throughout the Country and internationally as well.
This is going on in other Churches as well, incuding the Southern Baptists and Catholics. It’s an organized plan. Until people realize that they will have an extremely hard time combatting it!
I don't think so!
Has he not heard of the Commandment: Thou shalt not kill."?
Anglican ping
You would be right to call her a priestess despite what she calls herself. There is no such thing as a “woman priest”, just like there is no such thing as a “man priestess”. The women who call themeselves priests do so for wacked out feminist reasons, and the fact that the word “priestess” is associated with paganism. And at least for this priestess that association would be right on, paganism circa 10,000 BC.
Freegards
Well *she* isn’t scripturally qualified to be a clergyman anywise....
We were warned that evil would be called good one day.
Unfortunately, she is not the only nominally religious person who has this problem.
The God they serve is the God of Lies. There is one lower station: Hell.
This dame walks with the Devil.
"Forgiveness without demanding a change in conduct is making the grace of God an accomplice to evil." --Pastor John Hagee
Yeah, and all the people she helped catapult into Hell as well.
Of course, this is the spirit of anti-Christ.
The heaven/hell argument, though, is irrelevant.
It’s a straw man. Christ is the compelling factor,
not behavior.
this woman has a rude awakening coming when she stands face to face with Jesus.
Right on! But a more direct translation from Hebrew is “Thou shalt not MURDER.”
And they wonder why many of us are fleeing the Episcopal church.
Any way you put it, attributing violence and murder to God comes down to blasphemy. Wouldn’t want to be her at Judgement Day.
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