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{ V. Gene Robinson } Gay Bishop Out of Anglican Summit
AP via SFGate ^ | 3/11/8 | RACHEL ZOLL, AP Religion Writer

Posted on 03/11/2008 9:39:15 AM PDT by SmithL

The first openly gay Episcopal bishop announced he will have no official role in a meeting this summer of world Anglican leaders, saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him "considerable pain."

New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson had been told last year that he could not fully participate in the once-a-decade gathering in England, called the Lambeth Conference, as the world Anglican Communion sat on the brink of schism over his 2003 election.

Still, Episcopal leaders had been negotiating with the Anglican Communion Office to allow him to join the event in some capacity. The Episcopal Church is the Anglican body in the U.S.

At a Texas meeting Monday night of the Episcopal House of Bishops, Robinson said that the final offer to include him was in effect a "non-offer," and he had declined it.

Anglican leaders said Robinson could "be present" in the conference Marketplace, or convention hall, where exhibitors and church agencies set up stalls, and that he could participate in one "high profile" event, such as a news conference, at the 20-day summit. The exhibit hall is open to the public, while the Lambeth discussions are private.

Robinson told the bishops in Texas that ever since he got word of the proposal late last Friday, "I have been in considerable pain." He said he had hoped to participate in Bible study and small group discussions with other bishops.

"I am dismayed and sickhearted that we can't sit around a table, as brothers and sisters in Christ, and study Scripture together," he said. "It makes me wonder, if we can't sit around a table and study the Bible together, what kind of Communion do we have and what are we trying to save?"

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TOPICS: Mainline Protestant; Moral Issues; Other non-Christian; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: anglican; ecusa; episcopal; generobinson; homosexualagenda; homosexualbishop; keepowt; lambeth; narcissism; nonchristiancult; playingchurch; schism; uk; vgenerobinson

1 posted on 03/11/2008 9:39:16 AM PDT by SmithL
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To: sionnsar; Huber

fyi


2 posted on 03/11/2008 9:40:33 AM PDT by SmithL (That's my story & I'm sticking to it!)
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To: SmithL

But don’t they know that he is of the Master Race?


3 posted on 03/11/2008 9:41:14 AM PDT by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: SmithL

I am dismayed and sickhearted that this pervert is a bishop in my church. He is a self-absorbed putz.


4 posted on 03/11/2008 9:59:20 AM PDT by Dems_R_Losers (Waiting for 2012 to vote for an actual Republican)
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To: Dems_R_Losers

He’s getting married after the conference..he said he always wanted to be a JUne bride...


5 posted on 03/11/2008 10:15:32 AM PDT by ken5050
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To: SmithL
he has done more to denigrate a once influential and meaningful instrument of Christ’s work in the world than any one person in modern history. Like all of us, there is a judgment awaiting him.
6 posted on 03/11/2008 10:46:25 AM PDT by elpadre
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To: SmithL
The first openly gay Episcopal bishop announced he will have no official role in a meeting this summer of world Anglican leaders, saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him "considerable pain."

Geez, homosexuals are such narcissists.

7 posted on 03/11/2008 11:07:53 AM PDT by MEGoody (Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.)
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To: MEGoody
And crybabies
I am dismayed and sickhearted . . .

8 posted on 03/11/2008 11:10:10 AM PDT by SmithL (That's my story & I'm sticking to it!)
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To: SmithL

Why, it makes me so upset I could just stamp my little feet and pout.


9 posted on 03/11/2008 12:09:19 PM PDT by kaehurowing
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To: SmithL

“...restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him “considerable pain.”

Yeh! Like the “No after hours gay orgies” restriction.


10 posted on 03/11/2008 3:22:20 PM PDT by PetroniusMaximus
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To: SmithL

So he’s out of rehab at the moment?


11 posted on 03/11/2008 5:13:16 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: SmithL
>>saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him “considerable pain.”

Alrighty then. How bout the pain that shot down the central nervous system of the 70 million member Anglican communion when you were consecrated.

Talk about self centered.

12 posted on 03/12/2008 1:48:06 PM PDT by servantboy777
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>>He’s getting married after the conference”

Are you serious? Hopefully it'll happen in the church.

That should wake a few up to the blatant hypocrisy of the Episcopal church.

13 posted on 03/12/2008 1:50:33 PM PDT by servantboy777
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To: ahadams2; jpr_fire2gold; Tennessee Nana; QBFimi; Tailback; MBWilliams; showme_the_Glory; ...
Thanks to SmithL for the ping. (Interestingly, in Sumter SC last evening I passed by a church that advertised itself still as "Episcopalian" but the logo lacked the St. Andrew's cross of crosses on blue background one finds in the the Episcopal logo -- it appears to be a CANA church.)

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14 posted on 03/12/2008 7:58:31 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: SmithL
. . . . saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his involvement had caused him "considerable pain. . . . "

Hey, Vicki Gene baby! You caused us considerable pain until we had an attack of good sense and went Straight Over to Rome.

Where they have adult leadership and acknowledge the concept of Sin.

One of my best friends in our old ECUSA church had a cousin in NH who sat on committees with the Bishop of New Hampster. She said, "It's always about Gene. Has always been all about Gene."

15 posted on 03/12/2008 8:12:27 PM PDT by AnAmericanMother ((Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment)))
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To: SmithL; sionnsar

All that is Bishop Robinson needs to do to receive a full invitation is repent and desist in his extramarital relations and his encouragement of similar sins in others.


16 posted on 03/13/2008 4:30:10 PM PDT by Huber (And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not. - John 1:5)
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To: sionnsar
but the logo lacked the St. Andrew's cross of crosses on blue background

Since the St. Andrew's cross has additional meaning in the South, it's absence could also signify a hyper-liberal church.

17 posted on 03/13/2008 4:47:05 PM PDT by PAR35
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To: PAR35

I doubt that a CANA church would be hyper-liberal.


18 posted on 03/13/2008 7:20:55 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: SmithL

Let me guess...

“Rule One: NO POOFTERS!”


19 posted on 03/13/2008 7:23:37 PM PDT by RichInOC (...William Frank Buckley, Jr., November 24, 1925-February 27, 2008, R.I.P.)
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