The Bishop's Boss.
Posted on 08/23/2007 1:27:48 PM PDT by NYer
London, Aug 23, 2007 / 10:49 am (CNA).- The openly homosexual Episcopal bishop, Bishop V. Gene Robinson, has planned to enter into a civil partnership with his long-term partner just weeks before next year's Lambeth Conference, reports the Church of England Newspaper.
Robinson, whose consecration as bishop of New Hampshire in 2003 has placed the Anglican Communion on the brink of schism, unveiled his intention during an interview to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 next week, in a program entitled Choice.
In an interview with Michael Buerk, the bishop denied that his plan to hold the ceremony next June had been chosen to be deliberately provocative.
He said he and his partner decided to take advantage of the new civil union law that will come into effect in New Hampshire on Jan. 1 and were looking for a three-day weekend that would allow people to travel more easily.
"That happened to be the fifth anniversary of my election as the Bishop of New Hampshire and [we] thought that would be an appropriate date,” he elaborated. "I think the fact is my critics would find any date impermissible."
He told the interviewer about his love for the Anglican Communion, but said he would never step down, as it would go against God's call for his life.
He said his election was the result of his community’s vote and that he is not sure that they necessarily did the right thing. “That community tried its very best to discern the will of God, and we may be wrong, I am ready to admit to you that I cannot be sure that this is the right thing or the right time or the right way.”
He also said he believes Episcopal Archbishop Peter Akinola of Nigeria “is following his call from God as best as he can” in leading the campaign against gay bishops.
“I just wish he could believe I am following my call from God as best I can," Robinson reportedly said.
Bishop Robinson - hah! - has a calling from God to be a rump-ranger. The hypocrisy, narcissism, and egoism is astounding!
I still can’t understand how a Church that vows to do the will of God has a Bishop that is clearly in violation of that by living in and promoting sin. How can this Church venture to give moral guidance, especially in telling kids to practice abstinence, when their own Bishops aren’t?
I still can’t understand how a Church that vows to do the will of God has a Bishop that is clearly in violation of that by living in and promoting sin. How can this Church venture to give moral guidance, especially in telling kids to practice abstinence, when their own Bishops aren’t?
If a heterosexual Episcopal bishop had a live-in girlfriend, I think he would receive more criticism than Vicki the Eminent.
The Bishop's Boss.
The Bishop Robinson.
He was unqualified for the office on the first two counts (apparently there were people aware of his alcohol problem even before his election).
And of course, politics turned his third "disqualifying property" into the reason for his election.
It's still amazing to me, the depths to which politics will drag groups of people.
So much to say.... so little bandwidth.
Is there anyone left who wonders why pedophilia/child abuse is rampant? One abomination leads to another . . .
Romans 1:27 And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Too bad for the Episcopalian church. It's not surprising. Their founder (Henry VIII) was a mere mortal who left the true church so he could get divorced and beget a son. In the end, a daughter ruled and the entire "new church" was FOR NOTHING. All the acrimony, death, suffering and hardship he caused was FOR NOTHING.
Now the Episcopalians, scions of the Church of England, are getting "married" open homosexuals as their priests and priestesses.
They must have a different Scripture than other Christians.
This is a sad case of "what goes around....."
We hear about whole congregations that are swimming the Tiber, or heading East.
God bless them all; may He give clarity to their minds, determination to their hearts, and wings to their feet.
Methinks that is wisdom to desert the ship that is sinking in the mud formerly occupied by Sodom and Gemorrah.
In 2004, the son of a Maronite Catholic family was enrolled in the First Grade at a public school in the state of MA.
NEWTON, Mass. — L. George Chedid wants his eldest son to learn about math and science and all the rest of the academic subjects that children learn in elementary school. But he draws the line at his boy learning about same-sex “marriage” — especially at the impressionable age of 7.Chedid’s son was in first grade at Burr Elementary School in Newton, Mass., last spring when the principal announced over the intercom that the state was officially recognizing same-sex “marriages.” The school then sent several of its homosexual teachers to various classrooms — from kindergarten through fifth grade — to explain what this meant and to herald the law as a wonderful civil-rights advancement, said Chedid, an engineering professor at Wentworth Institute of Technology in Boston.
It's still amazing to me, the depths to which politics will drag groups of people.
This is just the beginning!
Its all about him, isn’t it. No question about Vicky Gene being Satan’s agent, forget about repentance. I wonder what his ex-wife and children think about this?
Homosexuals openly practicing in the priesthood seems to be one of the first signs of a failing denomination, after women preaching. To see this pattern happen time after time, and watching once-Christian denominations falling into the same traps of liberality and heresy is getting almost routine.
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