FOX NEWS: Rev. Gene Robinson Confirmed As Episcopal Church Bishop

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[Brian S]

Rev. Gene Robinson Confirmed As Episcopal Church Bishop

[Fifth Business]

I apologize for any offense given.

Accepted, of course. I know it wasn't your intent to offend. And thank you for accepting my apology for my initial response to you, a response which was both unfair and illiberal.

[PFKEY]

I guess I can say similarly. I was raised in the Catholic church. Baptized in the Catholic church. Attended Catholic schools for 9 years.

[RobbyS]

I was that to attend a CUF meeting last year. Nice church. I have been hoping to attend some Sunday, but it is forty miles from my house.

I am concerned about poue own priests. The bishop sent a nice note to me when I expressed my concern, promising that the Bishops would take up the issue of homosexuality last fall. Their silence on the issue seems omenous. Are they hiding a secret too terrible to reveal?

[tinamina]

I haven't read about this in a long time, but I thought it was Pope Gregory in England?

[longtermmemmory]

Newsflash: The leadership disregarded what parishoners think because they hold all the cards. They own the building and hold the pension controls. They are living by the golden rule: he with the gold makes the rules. (or is that silver, 30 pieces to be exact.) Prior objections were met with minimal actual reaction. When women were made fathers, for example.

This is about money, homosexuals don't want their own church because that would mean starting from scratch. The hostile takeover of this church means you have the ability to take the real estate and money in the pensions. There is also the added homosexual excitement of FORCING (ala raping) people of moral conscience into having to acknowledge what you reaaaaly do in the bedroom. Its exciting to them.

The real question is to see who does what in reaction. I have only heard there will be some form of meeting tommorow. Does anyone have any serious reaction details? The episcopal leadership is counting on only the irrelevant disenters leaving.

[Lady Heron]

The Roman Catholic Church is ready to welcome all orthodox Episcopalians back into the true faith

You might want to look up what the word Protstant means before you talk about who has the true faith. Good way to start a fight.

[TaxRelief]

Other Anglican Churches and Organizations

(many conservative)

The Anglican Catholic Church
The Anglican Catholic Church of Canada
The Anglican Church in America
Anglican Communion
Anglicans Online
Anglican Province of America
Anglican Province of Christ the King
American Anglican Council
The Anglican Mission in America
The Charismatic Episcopal Church
Lambeth Conference
Old Catholic Church of America
Order of St. Vincent
The Prayer Book Society (Ecusa)
Reformed Episcopal Church
The Traditional Anglican Communion
The Conference on Anglican Unity
Sodality of the Most Holy Rosary
Traditional Anglican Documents
Episcopal Missionary Church
Episcopal Orthodox Church
United Episcopal Church of North America

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The group leading the charge against the gay movement in the Episcopal Church is Episcopal Shield

[tinamina]

The Catholic Church has been ordaining homosexuals for years, they just haven't acknowledged it. Why else all the abuse scandals? My sisters, who have fairly recently become Roman Catholics (after a year of RCIA) have been through a sucession of foreign born priests, from India and from Africa...at least they haven't had to have a homosexual one yet. But they have no say in who is their priest unless they want to change parishes, which is not so easy in small town America.
They did have a problem originally because they grew up in the Baptist church, which will baptize you anytime you feel repentant or an evangelist comes to town, but you never have a Baptismal certificate. The Romans say there is only one baptism but you have to prove it. So they came up with "conditional baptism". You have to go to RCIA for a year, and you can't take communion for that year before they will accept you as "baptized". They won't accept your word for it. I don't like to go to church if I can't take communion, I feel rejected for some reason.

[Fifth Business]

You might want to look up what the word Protstant means before you talk about who has the true faith. Good way to start a fight.

The arrogance is astounding, isn't it?

[aberaussie]

"When the Episcopalians sneeze, the Lutherans catch cold." Our ELCA convention will be next week, with some expected gay-related action, but no fireworks as in the Episcopal convention. That will come in 2005--I fully expect the gays to get there way in the ELCA also.

I am an ELCA Lutheran as well. I have been leading a class presenting "the other side" of the homosexual issue using Dr. Strommen's video series. Our members are very concerned about where we are going, needless to say.

As for what will happen in 2005, there are already mutterings about putting the vote off until 2007 because they say the sexuality study will not be complete until then (how long does it take to study this issue?). I personally hope the vote is in 2005 because it is here in FL and I want to be there to protest....wonder if we could get a Freep going for the Lutherans?

[SerpentDove]

"Delightful news." - Satan

[Fifth Business]

The Anglican Mission in America, which is on your list, is a member of the world-wide Anglican communion. Yet they are evangelical and orthodox, because they are a mission of the African and Asian provinces of the Anglican communion. They are the only American alternative to the ECUSA that is in the world-wide Anglican communion.

[FlyingEagle]

The level of social and political discourse in this country has degenerated to rock bottom. Gay bishops and gay marriages make a mockery of Christianity. The court abolishes the Ten Commandments. The former president Clinton lies without batting an eye, sex with that woman does not include oval office blow jobs. Small wonder the Islamists claim the moral high ground and fight like hell to destroy our nation, institutions and economy. If they just leave us alone a while longer we will do it for them. No doubt about it now folks, the USA is rapidly approaching spiritual and moral bankruptcy. Apostacy has a very steep price and the Episcopal Church will pay for it with its very existence. The essential tenets of the faith extant for millenia cannot be destroyed by fiat from sodomite lovers. Spit in Gods eye and he will spit back.

[inchworm]

I'd like to join a Southern Baptist Church where at least it seams my family and I should always be safe and where the Bible will always be the Bible.

[PFKEY]

What can I say?

If someone places their trust and hope of salvation in a man-made institution and not in Christ then whom do they have to blame or complain to?

[Empireoftheatom48]

It seems like Gays rule everywhere!???

[Honorary Serb]

I say this from a secular rational point of view. I can't understand how you can read the New Testament and find approval for homosexuality. Even if you are not a Christian, just a scholar you can't find anything but condemnation for homosexuality. I mean this decision is for the Episcopalians to make alone-I am not of their creed-but what justification in scripture do they find to accept homosexuality?

Revisionists who make political correctness (or their own deviant desires,or those of their friends) trump everything else always find ways to explain things away, or to "prove" that they aren't "relevant". I've heard all their arguments, which are based on specious Biblical "exegesis", fifty-year-old genetics, and the "life stories" of gays and lesbians. It's all a bunch of garbage.

I am not a rationalist, but an Evangelical Catholic/Evangelical Orthodox Christian believer. What is happening in the Episcopal Church, and in my own Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, is not only a case of "bad logic", but is UTTERLY HEARTRENDING. If the ECUSA has left the one holy catholic and apostolic church, do I take communion in an Episcopal church? (ECUSA and ELCA are in full communion.) What if an Episcopal priest presides at communion in my own congregation? What if I know that the Episcopal priest is orthodox? What happens when the ELCA "goes gay"--as it almost certainly will--in 2005? Will I be able to take communion anywhere? It just gets worse and worse.

As an honorary Serb, I already attend an Orthodox church about once a month. So I do have options.

[Irene Adler]

"You are only without a church building right now. You are not without a Church."

Well, I am without a church I can join and attend which is sad for me. I am not in a metropolitan area and so have no recourse to the groups that have been mentioned on this thread such as the Reformed Episcopal Church, the Anglican with to thank those who have put them on this thread because I will look for parishes in cities which I can travel to.

[nmh]

Not surprised. If they even consider a homo for ANY position of authority they've thrown out the Bible. He represents the advasary of Christ; certianly NOT God!

[Belial]

You might want to look up what the word Protstant means before you talk about who has the true faith.

Isn't it amusing to watch all the ants scrabbling around declaring their small slice of knowledge the "word of god"?

So much seriousness about the infantile fantasy of a king up in the clouds to talk to when we're down.