Yes, you do or you're going to continue to make a fool of yourself.
OK. this conversation started in post 2220 here....
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2811552/posts?page=2200#2200
with you saying:
"Hey, how about that infallible Episcopalian clergyman, he's just fine and wonderful like the Presbyterian lesbian pastor, and the Baptist queer couple, and on and on. All anyone has to know about who cannot do anything other than whine and repeat total untruths is to look at what this whole series of comments started over. A Catholic priest who may get away with allowing an ordained Episcopalian queer preach in a Catholic Church. Forget that the guy preaches in his own church or if still an Episcopalian Bishop, many churches, forget the fact that Protestant churches by the thousands are ordaining queers, marrying one faggot to another, preaching that abortion is fine, forget all of that and attack the Catholic Church."
To which I responded in post 2210
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2811552/posts?page=2210#2210
You then replied with post 2217 which said, (Rashputin)"didn’t read that, didn’t need to. Why do you like Episcopalian queers but hate Catholics?"
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/2811552/posts?page=2217#2217
I replied with 2219 which was mm: "Do you have reading comprehension issues? Reread the first few sentences again. I don’t justify it for ANY clergy or anyone in the ministry of anyone in any position of responsibility within any church."
to which you responded with post 2225 .....
"didn't read that, didn't need to Do you ignore Hebrews, James, Jude, and Revelation like Luther did or do you just redefine parts of those books to suit yourself? When your're ignoring and revising various chapters and verses to suit your own personal interpretation of Scriptures, do you insert whole pages of revised replacements you came up with or do you go verse by verse with Post-it notes layered one over the other?"
Now, God and you alone know where that came from and what it could possibly have to do with gays in the clergy.
It appears that you have lost track of the conversation because I can't for the life of me figure out what you're arguing with me about and how that relates to my statement that there is no excuse for anyone being in leadership position in the church who is living in that kind of blatant immorality.
Tell me, how is one to otherwise interpret verses in Scripture that condemn immorality in the person who calls themselves a believer?
When the elders get together to have a hankie prayer party because so many fellow believers have sent in their ten hankie bucks, and none of the elders has sinus congestion, do the elders still pay a junkie with chronic post nasal drip to blow his nose on each one so it won't be considered an icon or have they gone to just having an elder salivate on each one? Or, do some infallible interpreters of Scriptures who have their own personal interpretation of Scriptures not know about the prayer hankie ritual?
If one infallible interpreter of Scripture knows about the hankie ritual and another infallible interpreter of Scripture doesn't, do the interpreters who don't know the ritual still open their chest of drawers and find soiled hankies after a hankie prayer party so that they won't think their hankies are icons?
If someone sends their own hankie in to have it prayed over, and the hankie is lavender with "Chuck loves Bubba" on it, do the infallible interpreters of Scripture send it back, blow their nose on it and send it back without praying over it, or go ahead and both blow their nose on it and pray over it because they know an fellow infallible interpreter of Scripture sent it in along with ten bucks so even if they're queers they're infallible queers?