I got out in the early 80s.
I know nothing of Bishop Love beyond this piece but for him to have stayed in this PECUSA (Protestant Episcopal Church of the USA) for this long strikes me as being very dedicated to his call to his congregations and strength in his faith. He probably will be removed from his position soon and it will break his heart but strengthen his faith!
God Bless!
Let’s do a little scientific experiment, shall we? Take one young married man and women and put them in an enclosed environment for a year or two. Take a homosexual couple (male or female) and put them in the same environment as well. At the end of two years the normal (male+female) couple emerge with a beautiful baby; the result of their God designed intimacy. The only thing the same sex couple can bring out is a bucket of putrefied feces and piss. That’s the Truth. Sex, as designed, is Life creating, and Life affirming. It flourishes at the very core of the cosmic order, and it therefore lives at the seat of all authority and power. The One who occupies that throne has blessed us with sexuality and He has warned us, as a loving Father that you cannot violate the natural order without terrible consequences. God has said, “They who hate me, love Death.”
Straight from Bizarro World.
An Catholic acquaintance’s wife chided me recently for criticizing the current Pope’s accepting same sex marriage with the comment that the Pope is following Jesus in blessing same sex marriage under his command: “thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.” I merely sighed and shook my head, because of the situation I didn’t want to get into an argument, but my unsaid reply was “Jesus wanted us to ‘love the sinner but not the sin.’ This pronouncement means that the Pope now wants us to love the sin as well.”
And I could have reminder her that Jesus also told the prostitute he saved from being stoned to “go and sin no more.” He didn’t say “go and I hope you have a lot more customers for you body.”
All the “liberal” Protestant denominations have evolved into organizations whose primary concern is promoting sodomy. Reform Judaism has gone that route, too.