Sweden appoints lesbian bishop

PinkNews.co.uk ^ | June 1, 2009 | Jessica Geen

[Bushwacker777]

"The Church of Sweden has appointed a lesbian as the Lutheran bishop of Stockholm.

Eva Brunne, who is in a registered partnership, is believed to be the world's first lesbian bishop.

She won the post by 413 votes against 365 votes and will succeed Bishop Caroline Krook, who is to retire in November.

Brunne, 55, has a three-year-old son with her partner Gunilla Linden, who is a priest."

[RichInOC]

No pictures, please.

[JHL]

Brunne, 55, has a three-year-old son with her partner Gunilla Linden

This is biologically impossible.

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well the Church of Sweden must be proud to be so very very liberal. Lesbian bishop is partners with a lesbian priest? How special (sarcasm)

Where did their son come from? I have heard that a number of lesbian females had their children while married to men, before they realized that they were really lesbian. So of course that would have happened because of our racist, sexist, bigoted society which pressures women to marry men. (more sarcasm)

[dfwgator]

Eva Brunne

Guess that relationship with Hitler didn't work out.

[Bushwacker777]

And there’s another HUGE problem with lesbian marriage — here you have two women and one kid. That averages out to a birthrate of .5 per female — such a partnership would have to produce at least 4 kids just to come close to biological replacement. Maybe this is why the New World Order is pushing homosexual acceptance so much.

[sionnsar]

Now TEC has to play catch-up.

[ak267]

When the anti-Christ comes, it will be churches and organizations such as this that will gleefully lay down and submit to Satan.

[Bushwacker777]

Like they have not already?

[mikrofon]

Krook Replaced by Lesbian in Swedish Church

[bdeaner]

Wow -- what a shame what is happening to the Lutheran Church. An openly gay woman as a bishop?

Perhaps Lutherans might want to consider coming home.

[Cicero]

World’s first lesbian bishop. What on earth is wrong with the Episcopal Church? How’d they let themselves get beaten out by a bunch of Swedish Lutherans? Good grief.

[Dallas59]

Aren’t priests supposed to take vows of celibacy? Aren’t they supposed to be unaffected by worldly things like sex and only be concerned with the soul and afterlife?

[Charles Henrickson]

Brunne, 55, has a three-year-old son with her partner Gunilla Linden. . . .

No, not possible.

[Charles Henrickson]

The Swedish word präst, "priest," is used in Sweden for all ordained ministers, whereas we Lutherans in America would use the word "pastor." Being a "priest," in Swedish Lutheranism, does not carry with it the requirement of mandatory celibacy that medieval Roman Catholicism came up with.

Jag är präst, "I am a pastor," a Swedish-American Lutheran pastor.

[Charles Henrickson]

Lutheran ping.

[RichInOC]

There are pictures of them on Google image search. Don’t be so sure.

[Charles Henrickson]

On this, the 6th of June, Sweden's national day, a sad ping--mourning the homeland's long slide into secularism and moral dissolution--to the Swedish Ping List.

[Charles Henrickson]

It's bad enough they have women pastors, in violation of God's Word, but they even allow lesbian women pastors. Well, come to think of it, that's often the case with the pastorettes.

[Nosterrex]

The Church of Sweden is a state church. Clergy are simply civil servants of the government. In a state church the parliament decides the practice, not the Scriptures. Europe has rejected the Scriptures as the basis of moral law. Its morality is based upon cultural/political relativism. It will not be long before all of Europe will be part of Islam, and this will be God's judgment against all of them for their apostasies. They brought it upon themselves, and God will allow them to suffer the consequences of their own actions.

[WashingtonSource]

They have already gleefully laid down for Satan. They are preparing the way for the anti-Christ.

[Charles Henrickson]

"Biskop" Eva Brunne and "the little woman," Gunilla Lindén:

Yuk.

[Marathoner]

Well, there went my lunch.

[Bushwacker777]

Actually. the one thing one may notice about many lesbian couples today, especially in Sweden, is that they can actually be quite attractive. I know a really good-looking Swedish gal who looks a lot like the woman on the right of this picture:

http://www.sweden.se/upload/Sweden_se/english/articles/SI/2009/same_sex_marriage/gay-wedding.jpg

I actually know quite a few Swedish college students and the absolute knockouts all identify themselves as bi-sexual. I think that trend is evolving in the USA too. The problem is, that a woan willing to identify as bi-sexual can wind up quite easily in a lesbian relationship and marriage. If only it were only the ugly ones that became nuns, lesbians or childless career women.

[lightman]

Lutheran Ping!

Veni, Sanctae Spiritus!

Worth noting: The late Rev. Kristen Stendahl, a retired Bishop of the Church of Sweden attended and participated in the consecration of the openly homosexual Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire Vicke Gene Robinson. He was the only Lutheran to participate in the 2003 ceremony.

[Charles Henrickson]

The Church of Sweden is a state church.

Well, kinda sorta, but not officially, not since the church was disestablished in the year 2000. But effectively, the societal and cultural ties are still there. And the Church of Sweden has been taken over by extreme social-political-theological liberalism, and increasingly so, for decades. It's like the ELCA on steroids.

[lightman]

Well, there went my lunch.

Lunch, nothing. There went my libido.

[wafflehouse]

LOL you know the rules

[wafflehouse]

Eva = GUILTY
Gunilla = red x

[Charles Henrickson]

Guilty. Guilty. (Although the “wife,” if she trimmed her eyebrows and put on some makeup and dolled up a bit, might get her sentence reduced.)

[RichInOC]

That particular rule doesn’t apply to women whose pictures cause both men and women to curl up in a fetal ball, shrieking in pain and trying to hold in their melting eyes.

[Redleg Duke]

Well, the ELCA can’t be far behind.

[Bushwacker777]

Any pics of the bishop taken when she was like 30 rather than in her mid-50s?

[Charles Henrickson]

Lock 'em all up!

[section9]

First to be beheaded after the Muslims take over.

Allahu Akbar!

Best,

Chris

[big'ol_freeper]

Sky’s the limit when one can make one’s own rules based on one’s very own interpretation of Sacred Scripture. Yippee!

[Jeff Chandler]

Is she left-handed?

[Vaduz]

Brunne, 55, and her partner Gunilla Linden also believe they can buy breeder mules.

[haroldeveryman]

“Is she left-handed?”

Now that’s where I draw the line!

[litehaus]

On this, the 6th of June, Sweden's national day, a sad ping--mourning the homeland's long slide into secularism and moral dissolution--to the Swedish Ping List

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AMEN!

[jmaroneps37]

A google search shows just 7% of Sweden attends church regularly. This might have been a PR stunt to remind people there is a church in Sweden.
My S/L grandmother is rolling in her grave.

[RobinOfKingston]

Brunne, 55, has a three-year-old son with her partner Gunilla Linden, who is a priest."

That little boy doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of a normal life. Not even by 21st Century Swedish standards.

[WKUHilltopper]

“She has been praised for her natural authority, enthusiasm and sense of humour, telling one reporter who asked about her hobbies: “I read crime fiction. And I carve. The things you do to conform to Jesus, huh?”

Yeah, you’ll be laughing it up at the Bema seat of judgment...

Lady, you’d better drop to your knees in repentance before it’s too late—

1 Corinthians 6

9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

[Jacob Kell]

That’s more the result when a society is as secularized and influenced by left wing thought as Sweden is. So don’t blame Protestantism.

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[Jacob Kell]

It’s not Lutheranism but rather what happens when a country is as secularized and as influenced by leftist thought as Sweden is. As Charles Hendrickson pointed out, the “Church of Sweden has been taken over by extreme social-political-theological liberalism, and increasingly so, for decades. It’s like the ELCA on steroids.” Basically, we Lutherans don’t need to “come home”, but rather return to the truths in the Bible, and to clean up the liberal churches or buttress the conservative ones so as to offer a alternative.

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[bdeaner]

It’s not Lutheranism but rather what happens when a country is as secularized and as influenced by leftist thought as Sweden is. As Charles Hendrickson pointed out, the “Church of Sweden has been taken over by extreme social-political-theological liberalism, and increasingly so, for decades. It’s like the ELCA on steroids.”

I appreciate the clarification. So, this is not something one could possibly see in the United States in a Lutheran Church? Ever?

Basically, we Lutherans don’t need to “come home”, but rather return to the truths in the Bible, and to clean up the liberal churches or buttress the conservative ones so as to offer a alternative.

Well, before I say anything further, let me say as a Catholic, that I think of Lutherans first and foremost as Brothers and Sisters in Christ. The similarities outweight the differences by a large margin, and considering the secular world we are faced with, we sure better work together if we are both going to survive.

At the same time, as a Catholic, of course, I believe Holy Scripture, read within context, ultimately favors the doctrines of the Catholic Church. If you were ever interested in an ecumenical, friendly conversation on that, I would certainly be up for it -- though I wouldn't assert myself obnxiously in that direction if it was not wanted.

God bless.

[lightman]

Well, before I say anything further, let me say as a Catholic, that I think of Lutherans first and foremost as Brothers and Sisters in Christ. The similarities outweight the differences by a large margin,

That was already the case in AD 1530 when the Confession of Augsburg was presented to the Emporer Charles V.

Of the 30 articles in the document, 21 were held in common between the Lutherans and Cathoics, including definitions of Justification, the Sacraments, and Pennance.

Some of the disputed articles have slowly been resolving, such as distributing both species in the Eucharist and allowing for (granted, as exceptions, not the general rule) married Priests.

There is still a long way to go; but the commonalities greatly exceed the differences.

Unfortunately, situations like this one in Sweden move us rapidly backward.

[NYer]

Being a "priest," in Swedish Lutheranism, does not carry with it the requirement of mandatory celibacy that medieval Roman Catholicism came up with.

The biblical foundation of priestly celibacy