New Hampshire Episcopalians Choose Gay Bishop, and Conflict

The New York Times ^ | 6/8/03 | Laurie Goodstein

[ppaul]

Totally reprobate apostacy.

[Paleo Conservative]

He should be burned at the stake. It would set a good example.

[FormerLib]

Would the last Christian to leave the Episcopal Church please turn out the lights.

What? He already has? Well, that explains it then.

[Bogey78O]

"Everybody is going to be making a lot of the fact that he's gay, but that's not the point," Mr. Coolidge said. "The point is, he's well qualified."

What are the qualifications?

[oldironsides]

The qualifications? He left his wife and 2 children for a man. He cares about others and is a nice person. No wonder people are backing away from organized religion.

[Hebrews 11:6]

LOL

Actually, when the last Christian has left that church, he's taken the Light of the World with him.

[Credo]

He still has to be approved by the Diocesan Standing Committees and Bishops of the rest of the Episcopal Church. Which is probably likely.

Assuming he's approved, will the parts of the Anglican Communion that actually believe in the Bible - Africa, Asia and South America - stand for this? Time will tell.

Soon Episcopal Churches will be empty only kept going by old Foundation Money. They claim 2 Million. I would postulate there are less than 1 million people going to Episcopal Churches on any given Sunday.

[Non-Sequitur]

What are the qualifications?

Sixteen years service in the diocese.

[miner89]

The Rev. David P. Jones, rector of St. Paul's Church and co-chairman of the search committee for the next bishop, said, "Ten years ago I would not have been happy about this because I would have felt it's clearly contrary to the Bible, contrary to the traditions of the church.

Rom 1:26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: 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.

1 Cor. 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. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.

Heb 13:4 Marriage is honourable in all, and the bed undefiled: but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.

"It's all because I've experienced the ministry of this man and a couple of others that I think I was mistaken," Mr. Jones said.

Acts 20:30 Also of your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away disciples after them.

Eph 5:11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.

[sirchtruth]

"Everybody is going to be making a lot of the fact that he's gay, but that's not the point," Mr. Coolidge said. "The point is, he's well qualified."

Well qualified, meaning ignoring parts of scripture this B.S. Church doesn't agree with, nor like!

[EdReform]

Bump & Ping

[Eala]

"Everybody is going to be making a lot of the fact that he's gay, but that's not the point," Mr. Coolidge said. "The point is, he's well qualified."

Sheesh. When they elected their first black woman bishop they made much of her black and a woman -- while ignoring the fact that she was totally unqualified.

[centurion316]

If confirmed, he will not be the first homosexual bishop. In fact, he will probably not be the only serving homosexual bishop. He will, however, be the first acknowledged, opening practicing homosexual bishop. And one who abandoned his wife and children to boot.

What this says about the Episcopal Church of the United States is profound. It has been for some time a church that has abandoned the beliefs, doctrine, creed, and liturgy of its tradition. It has embraced secular humanism and moral relativism. It has abandoned God. I doubt that a majority of its clergy believe that there is a God. Certainly the bishops don't. This is why many, including myself have walked away. The institution will hang on because of the property that it owns and its endowments - but it is already dead as a House of God.

[Eala]

the Episcopal Church and the Anglican communion worldwide are divided by lots of things," he said to the delegates.

And he's just supplied one more big division.

How interesting that members of the worldwide Anglican communion (from Africa and Asia) now have missions in the United States - the Anglican Mission in America.

[Osage Orange]

From the piece:

"But he urged the delegates who elected him to be "kind and sensitive and gentle" to believers who "will not understand what you've done here today.""

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Wow....there's a Freudian..if there ever was one.

[Kuksool]

The American Episcopalians have turned their back on God's Word, and instead chosen to follow the Gospel of John Spong. Where is church discipline when you need it?

[txzman]

"Everybody is going to be making a lot of the fact that he's gay, but that's not the point," Mr. Coolidge said. "The point is, he's well qualified."

I can't get over these nitwits - they base their faith on a book that they dismiss whenever it says something inconvenient - like the fact that homosexuality is immediate and final grounds for preventing one from serving in a position of Church leadership.

These "Christians" need to face the truth and call their group something else.

[Vaduz]

Will they will renamd the church the house of fudge?

[RobbyS]

If one rejects both Scripture and Tradition,or the universal belief of mankind that homosexuality is wrong then on what principle does one stand? The obvious answer is, none whatsoever: simply the shifting tides of public opinion.

[Rome2000]

What do you expect from heretics?

They reap what they sow.