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To: mosby
"Where was the fierce condemnation, the righteous wrath in terms of Robinson acting as a PRIEST? Something missing in this church."

Apparently there was none.And you're right, it should have been dealt with at the parish level, however, his parish obviously just thought what he was doing was fine and dandy.

Correct me if I misunderstand your meaning about churches looking the other way and not stamping it out at the local level, but the thing with the Episcopal church is that there is an hierarchy of authority. For example, our parish in Colorado, where I lived when this problem first started rising to the surface, DID condemn it at a local level and no individual aspiring to the priesthood as a homosexual was supported. I did know of one who moved away as a result to seek support in another state. The point is, that although our own parish, and at that time, our diocese, stood very firmly against the ordination of homosexuals, we had no authority to chastise those of a parish in another diocese. Only by being approved at the national level did the issue become everybody's problem, at least insofar as the church hierarchy is concerned. Before that, our only valid role was to pray for them.

141 posted on 08/10/2003 8:21:24 PM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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To: sweetliberty
It would be useful to know the hierarchy for those of us not familar with this type of structure. Actually it would seem to me that it should be easier to impose doctrinal consistency in a hierarchical structure. Does the priest answer to a Bishop, and a Bishop to an Archbishop? Does the Archbishop answer to a Church council of some sort? Where were the Bishops and Archbisops and Church Councils up the chain from Robinson when he was living as a priest in an openly adulterous homosexual relationship? Silent apparently, to their everlasting disgrace. Could not an Archbishop from Texas or Colorado or South Carolina raise this issue? Those who did nothing (including the laity) are, it seems to me, complicit in this debacle.
144 posted on 08/10/2003 8:38:22 PM PDT by mosby
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