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To: madprof98
Strikes me that the "cultural conditioning" in the Episcopal Church is affecting the people who want to write off the passages in the Bible our culture finds especially distasteful.

And it's laughable for Tim Solon to bewail the "selective use of Bible passages," when his side of the issue is demonstrably guilty of selective editing.

For example, the Book of Common Prayer lays out a set of daily readings. Over the course of the year, the BCP assigns all of Romans except for two verses. You can guess the ones: Rom. 1:26-27, which of course deal explicitly with homosexual relations. Nor, coincidentally, does 1 Cor. 6:9 appear, which says that "homosexual offenders," among many others, will not inherit the Kingdom of God.

Mr. Solon's comments are also highly misleading -- very nearly a lie, in fact. We're not talking about "selected Biblical passages," against which might found others that might lead to a different conclusion. No, the Bible is consistently against sexual immorality of any kind, and consistently counts homosexual relations among them.

12 posted on 08/21/2003 7:03:23 AM PDT by r9etb
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To: r9etb; hellinahandcart; Grampa Dave
Had anyone heard anything about yet another revision of the prayerbook aiming for 2012? Some of what I am reading is furthur confirming that the Episcopal church is badly derailed. Of course we already knew that, but it looks as if there are some who consider the 1979 version too exclusionary....
"...certain groups feel excluded by the 1979 Prayer Book, and those feelings will change only when new printed materials end up in worshipers' hands."

I think we all know what "groups" he's referring to. Here is that link if anybody is interested. This is the first I'd heard of this.

Prayer Book revision: 8,000 pages by 2012?

15 posted on 08/21/2003 7:55:18 AM PDT by sweetliberty ("Having the right to do a thing is not at all the same thing as being right in doing it.")
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