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Episcopal leader defends gay bishops
Associated Press ^ | January 1, 2008

Posted on 01/02/2008 7:11:40 AM PST by Zakeet

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1 posted on 01/02/2008 7:11:41 AM PST by Zakeet
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Sounds like the Anglican Church is in the process of rejecting the Ten Commandments and embracing the Ten Suggestions.
2 posted on 01/02/2008 7:17:39 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (Wanna see how bad it can get? Elect Hillary and find out.)
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To: sionnsar

Ping to you.


3 posted on 01/02/2008 7:19:32 AM PST by ConservativeMind
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To: Huber

Anglican ping


4 posted on 01/02/2008 7:22:13 AM PST by Fractal Trader (.)
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To: Zakeet

Typical response from a Bishopette


5 posted on 01/02/2008 7:22:43 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: AppyPappy

Does anyone else think that this position might have configured in the mind of Tony Blair and that is why he converted to Roman Catholic?


6 posted on 01/02/2008 7:24:33 AM PST by rovenstinez (,)
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To: Zakeet
You shall not lie with a male as with a woman; it is an abomination.

If a man lies with a male as with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination;

Yea, I mean how dare the people condemn this blashpemous church for its actions, its not like these people we are consecrating are engaging in acts that violate the word of God...... Well not the word of God we decide we will pay attention to this week, if we feel like it... maybe...

7 posted on 01/02/2008 7:24:39 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Gay State Conservative

she sounds like a little kid caught wrongdoing, “but others (names unrecalled) are doing it so it must be OK, Mom.”


8 posted on 01/02/2008 7:26:25 AM PST by elpadre
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To: Zakeet
Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says her church has been unfairly singled out for criticism because it is honest about consecrating gay bishops

No, it is because if we want PC Secularism, there is a Unitarian church down the street. You are only being crticized by people who were once your membership, and that is the fairest critcism one could expect.

Regards to the "Queen of Canterbury".

9 posted on 01/02/2008 7:27:55 AM PST by Gorzaloon
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To: Zakeet

She’s probably right, but neither she nor the Archbishop of Cantebury have sense enough to keep their mouths shut.


10 posted on 01/02/2008 7:31:27 AM PST by altura (Go, Fred!)
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To: Zakeet

“Gay partnered bishops”: homosexual bishops who are shacking up. Please dispense with the euphemisms.


11 posted on 01/02/2008 7:31:52 AM PST by windsorknot
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“He is certainly not alone in being a gay bishop; he’s certainly not alone in being a gay partnered bishop,” Jefferts Schori said in an interview broadcast Tuesday. “He is alone in being the only gay partnered bishop who’s open about that status.”

We all sin. But the intent is not to ADVOCATE it. Appointing a representative of a church should entail someone who at least attempts to live by the most basic principals and teachings of what is preached. Stating that there are more who are gay makes about as much sense as me saying “Well their are many who commit adultery and pedophilia.” Just like it would be inappropriate to pick a skirt chaser who lives out his fantasy of getting laid as much as possible, so is it inappropriate to pick someone living a gay “lifestyle.”

It is a choice! This man chose to live with another man and be gay. Bottom line, the Episcopal church is embracing people who choose to live out deviant sexual, morally objectionable, and Christian incompatible behavior. Bestowing people like this with titles and allowing them to teach others about the very values they choose to not uphold is simply put, stupid.


12 posted on 01/02/2008 7:33:12 AM PST by Red6 (Come and take it.)
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What next? Openly pedophile bishops? Openly adulterous bishops? Unrepentant theif bishops? Where does one draw the line?

They claim to be teaching and promoting the Bible. The Bible says the sexual acts they engage in are sinful. It is like hiring a Geography teacher who thinks the earth is flat and the sun circles it; IT MAKES NO SENSE.

13 posted on 01/02/2008 7:33:38 AM PST by allmendream ("A Lyger is pretty much my favorite animal."NapoleonD (Hunter 08))
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To: windsorknot

Dump the wife and kids and move in with your lover. Great behavior for an Episcopal Bishop


14 posted on 01/02/2008 7:34:00 AM PST by AppyPappy (If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem.)
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To: Zakeet

I suppose the lesson is that man has feet of clay and is in constant struggle against sin. We are all sinners, much to our personal shame. Some do better than others in refusing temptation. Admitting one’s sin is an important towards redemption. But flaunting one’s sin? Embracing one’s sin and laying open claim to it for the world to see? Trying to make one’s sin acceptable? Cannot that Bishop see the difference?


15 posted on 01/02/2008 7:37:24 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: Red6

GMTA .. I guess I was channeling you as I typed.


16 posted on 01/02/2008 7:38:30 AM PST by NonValueAdded (Fred Dalton Thompson for President)
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To: AppyPappy

How about, USE the wife and kids to further you climb up the hierarchy, then dump them when they are no longer useful? That’s what passes for honesty in the Episcopal Church.


17 posted on 01/02/2008 7:46:22 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: rovenstinez
Well, it certainly influenced my change to the Catholic church, and I suspect that Tony might have realized the Anglican church was in the process of dying off.
18 posted on 01/02/2008 7:55:53 AM PST by alarm rider (Why should I not vote my conscience?)
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To: allmendream
"IT MAKES NO SENSE"

Yet 2000 years ago the Apostle Paul told us it was going to happen.

19 posted on 01/02/2008 7:58:31 AM PST by joebuck
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"Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori says her church has been unfairly singled out for criticism because it is honest about consecrating gay bishops."

I may be wrong, but I'd almost be willing to bet that Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori would say that it was wrong for some bishops in the Roman Catholic church to have had sex with underage boys.

I wonder, though, if she would have given the Roman Catholic bishops a pass if they had been honest about what they were doing.

20 posted on 01/02/2008 8:08:00 AM PST by chs68
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