Posted on 02/09/2005 4:14:17 PM PST by newheart
News Analysis
WEST CHESTER, PA (2/9/2005)--Episcopal Church leaders reiterated again this week that they would not change their minds about the consecration of an openly homosexual bishop to the Episcopal Church, nor do they have any intention of reversing themselves on the church's present direction.
In a nationally syndicated televised news broadcast with Jim Lehrer, Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold told a reporter that while he regretted the pain he caused by consecrating V. Gene Robinson to the episcopacy and the rift it was causing, he went on to say, "I think the regret we can offer wholeheartedly and as a unified body is regret for the consequences our actions have had in other contexts. But that does not mean that we necessarily regret the action itself. Certainly, I, having participated in the ordination of the bishop of New Hampshire, do not regret having done so, though I recognize the complexities that that action has had in other places and regret the pain that it's caused other people."
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Akin to the murderer NOT repenting for killing you, but repenting that you are dead..
Just more double-minded nonsense from the master of pluriform truths. Come to think of it, that description fits both Satan and Griswold. How apt.
I can't wait to walk apart from these hate-filled, puffed up libertines.
I must remember: Be still and see the power of the Lord.
"clarifying (???) his position"
I think it did clarify his position. And he is clearly going to accept scripture when it supports his side and ignore it when it disagrees with his own capitulation to the culture.
That is how I read it.
That is how I read it.
God doesn't think he's Frank Griswold.
My take: "Here's 50 cents. Go call someone who gives a damn."
Griswold has no fear of the living God of the Bible. At least not for now, but how many human souls will he take down with him?
I think a better analogy would be the murderer regretting that the victim's survivors are upset over what happened, but expressing pride in his workmanship in the killing.
Yes, indeed. Much more apt.
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