Gee, when did they have a vote on the matter in Sodom, Connecticut? (Its a real place, look below)
Posted on 04/10/2005 5:18:09 AM PDT by Koblenz
(Hartford-AP, Apr. 9, 2005 10:50 AM) _ Episcopal priests at six churches in Connecticut are being warned they may be removed from their parishes next week because they oppose the church's first openly gay bishop.
Bishop Andrew Smith says the priests have, quote, "abandoned the communion of the church." The Hartford Courant reported the story today.
The letters were sent to the Rev. Christopher Leighton at St. Paul's Church in Darien; the Rev. Ronald Gauss of Bishop Seabury Church in Groton, the Rev. Gilbert Wilkes of Christ and the Epiphany Church in East Haven, the Rev. Don Helmandollar of Trinity Church in Bristol, the Rev. Mark Hansen of St. John's Church in Bristol and the Rev. Allyn Benedict of Christ Church in Watertown.
Smith has been at odds with the priests since his 2003 vote to elect the Rev. Gene Robinson as the Episcopal Church's first openly gay bishop. The six priests have sought to break away from Smith's authority and be supervised by another bishop.
If the priests can't agree with Smith, they could be prevented next week from doing their duties. The finding may eventually lead to the priests being defrocked.
No, Bishop, they just abandoned sodomy. The last recorded vote on the matter took place in the town which gave the pratice its name. It was nearly the same result-- the whole town was for it except for Lot and his family.
So Lot and his family left town. Remember what happened next?
No, the church abandoned them, and along with it the teachings of scripture. My dear mother goes to a Missionary Catholic church in NC, and they are converting episcopalians to Catholicism at a fairly healthy clip, mostly over this insanity with the bishop. These men would be excellent candidates to become Catholic priests if that would be their wish.
Newark Episcopal bishop calls for supporting same sex unions, questions whether Anglican unity has become an idol
http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/index.php?p=4530
There are several threads on this incident over on the religion board. Like your experience with Episcopalians coming over to Rome, Orthodoxy is experiencing the same thing. There are a number of Episcopal priests who have become Orthodox priests. In our little parish, our immediate past president of the parish council used to be the senior vestryman at his former Episcopal parish and another fellow is reputed to have run an auto da fe for his then heretical female Episcopal bishop at his old church which he and his family left for Orthodoxy soon thereafter...probably a good move!
It is prophesied that the churches will become apostate - these priests would be well served (and serving) by changing religious denominations, or even forming non-denominational churches that stick with Biblical principles.
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Ummm... Rev. Gene Robinson turned into an erection of concrete??? ;-))
holy homo's...batman!
Ping to self for later pingout.
Looks like Croneberger is following the footsteps of the apostate Spong.
and people b!tch whine and moan about queers in the RCC...
“'The question of whether the Anglican Communion as constituted can continue to serve the world in the service of God’s mission is a deeper question worthy of time and conversation, but I would lay this question before you: Could there be a time at which point unity in the Anglican Communion becomes an idol?'”
"Yes; no doubt the Anglican Communion–together with the Trinity, the Incarnation, Christ’s atonement, etc., etc.—-has become an idol, a weak and pathetic god next to the beauty and power and omniscience of the true god: sexual libertinism. By all means, cast down the idols; and let’s be quite naked and open about which god truly commands our allegiance. Let us give ourselves completely to Baal, the beautiful god that led us out of the Egypt which is also called “the Anglican Communion,” that hostile, repressive fossil of the twisted religion that is Christianity."
Comment by Lee Cerling — 1/29/2005 @ 12:53 pm
Where are the names of these priests? They need support and reinforcement for standing up and speaking the truth.
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Samuel Seabury 1729-1796
Samuel Seabury, who in 1748 advocated Hempstead, Long Island as the site for what later became King's College in New York City, graduated from Yale in 1748. He then studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh, only to change professional direction by becoming ordained an Anglican minister by the Bishop of London in 1753. As the rector of the Anglican church in Hempstead, he sent tutored several boys who later went on to King's College.
Before the Revolution, Seabury produced many pamphlets in which he tried to convince Americans that their greatest freedom lay in submitting to the British government and securing change through peaceful appeals to the government. He joined the British lines on Long Island in the Fall of 1776. In 1785, he became rector of St. James' Church, New London, Connecticut, and served as bishop of Connecticut and Rhode Island until his death in 1796.
Eva Goldsmith
Bibliography: Concise Dictionary of American Biography, fourth edition, pp. 1027-8.
(taken from: http://beatl.barnard.columbia.edu/kingsv1/biosketches.htm )
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