Here's the fruity old queer (Gene Robinson) with his infamous hat, and with his "husband", who he is now "divorced" from.
Posted on 05/31/2019 5:10:40 PM PDT by lightman
A chapel named for retired Episcopal Church Bishop Gene Robinson was dedicated Thursday as part of the consecration of a newly redeveloped Washington, D.C. church building.
St. Thomas’ Episcopal Parish chose to honor the former New Hampshire bishop who was the first openly partnered gay man to be consecrated a bishop in the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion. The chapel is envisioned as a pilgrimage site for youth who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender (LGBT). Robinson’s 2003 consecration as bishop was one of several contested actions fueling a broader Anglican realignment in North America and beyond.
The May 30 consecration service was led by Robinson, Episcopal Diocese of Washington Bishop Maryann Budde, and St. Thomas Priest-in-Charge Alex Dyer. Backed by twin windows of rainbow-hued stained glass and a metal Celtic cross, Robinson prayed “deliver your servants, when they draw near to you in this place, from coldness of heart and wanderings of mind, that with steadfast thoughts and kindled affections, they may worship you in spirit and in truth, through Jesus Christ, our Lord.”
Robinson, now divorced, resides in Washington and serves as bishop-in-residence at St. Thomas. He also serves as a senior fellow with the liberal think tank Center for American Progress.
Redevelopment of the St. Thomas parish church has been long in the making. Once regularly attended by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (who served on the church vestry while Assistant Secretary of the Navy in the Wilson Administration), the church was heavily damaged by arson in 1970, its main sanctuary destroyed. The parish, located in the Dupont Circle neighborhood, became closely associated with the LGBT community, still reflected today in its membership.
St. Thomas has declined precipitously in the past decade, shrinking from 350 to 140 members (-60%) and from a weekly attendance of 150 down to 50 (-66%). In 2018 Dyer cited the ongoing construction of the new church sanctuary and a purge of the parish membership rolls as contributing factors to the congregation’s diminished size. Asked about the decline in attendance, Dyer commented via Twitter “ASA is one measure. @StThomasDC is one of the most best parishes I have served. Check back in 5 years and the story will be different.”
The seven-story project was largely funded by an agreement with a property developer who turned the valuable urban parcel of land into residential units alongside the redeveloped church. The Dupont Circle Citizens Association and other neighborhood critics fiercely opposed the project, which was delayed by a court stop-work order. Dyer was briefly notable in 2017 on social media for wrapping banners around construction fences at St. Thomas in which an image of a face-palming Jesus was accompanied by political messages including the tagline “a progressive church for a progressive city.”
Despite the small size of its congregation, St. Thomas has had outsized influence upon the Washington Diocese. In 2018 Dyer submitted resolutions to diocesan convention to encourage all parishes to make “all gender-specific facilities and activities fully accessible, regardless of gender identity and expression” and “…eliminate, when possible, all gendered references to God and to replace them with gender neutral language.” Versions of both resolutions were adopted.
Church governing documents (pretty much true in every denomination except Southern Baptist) which state that the local congregation holds the property “in trust” for the larger denominational entity.
The situation was exacerbated in Virginia because The Episcopal Church was the Established Church into the early 19th century and enjoyed extra protection from the Commonwealth.
The only LGBT church I would recognize would be Liturgical, Godly, Biblical, and Traditional. The Episcopal Church is no longer Godly, Biblical or Traditional, and I understand they are rewriting their liturgy in horrible ways.
Maybe they will end up as a strange little cult of elderly gay and lesbian priests who do things like perform “blessings” at abortion clinics in blue states.
Actually it was extremely exacerbated in Virginia when the state Supreme Court corruptly ignored a statute which specifically recognized a congregation as owner of their property in case of a denominational split—reversing all the lower courts’ rulings.
The Episcopal Church “legally” stole tens of millions of dollars worth of real estate from congregations in Virginia. God will not hold them guiltless from their crimes.
How gay of you. I will never accept or condone any clergy that engages in anal sex and/or bestiality or tolerates it in any way and only sees it as sin.
The only LBGT church I would recognize is none of them! As long as sin is permitted, there is no church! Let the gay support their church of sodomy and gonorrhea. They only way they will be accepted is when they give it up!
The real truth is that church is dying because the Episcopal church went far left. It at one time was the most Conservative church out here, now it has been destroyed by Liberals.
I grew up Episcopal but I don’t claim them now. I have been considering converting to Judaism, I might be happier there.
OK, Dupont Circle. Gay mecca for the past century.
You evidently don’t know how to read very well.
I thought Liturgical, Godly, Biblical, and Traditional was a clever play on words but evidently people have a reading comprehension problem.
Yea, verily, yea.
Not just clever: CLASSIC!
Now THAT requires a Barf Alert!
Q - Why are Episcopalians so poor at chess?
A - Because they can’t tell their Bishops from their Queens.
Can you come up with something for Q?
That’s a good question. What would be a good, wholesome word for Q? And not a celebration of sin that the world wants.
There are some good “churchy” words for “Q” including just that letter by itself, which some New Testament scholars use to label a no longer extant, anonymous source for material common to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke but absent from Mark.
“Quoheloth” is the name sometimes used for the “preacher”/author of Eccelsiastes.
“Quobono” is the Arabic word used for the Eucharistic bread and the Divine Liturgy itself but in English it has poor homonym associations.
The two source hypothesis is a Johny-come-lately thing that has some major theological problems.
As a Catholic, I guess I can go with Queen of Heaven.
Good be on you and God be with you!!
..... In 2018 Dyer submitted resolutions to diocesan convention to encourage all parishes to make “all gender-specific facilities and activities fully accessible, regardless of gender identity and expression” and “…eliminate, when possible, all gendered references to God and to replace them with gender neutral language.” Versions of both resolutions were adopted.....
Oh my, that means that it is possible to get through an entire Episcopal liturgy without one mention of “Father, Son, and Holy Spirit”! Just like in the ELCA! Surprise, surprise!!
And I thought that it was customary to name churches and chapels after Saints who have passed from earthly life into Life Eternal. But no, this parish names their new chapel after “Selfish Gene” Robinson, who even gets to preside over its dedication!!!!
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