US Episcopalians celebrate defeat of Defense of Marriage Act

Spero News ^ | 6/26/2013 | Martin Barillas

[markomalley]

The bells at the National Cathedral of the Episcopal Church of the United States, located in Washington DC, pealed for an hour at noon on June 26 following the decision of the Supreme Court to overturn the Defense of Marriage Act. Bells tolled at other places of Christian worship, including those of other Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyterian, Unitarian and other Christian churches.

 

The National Cathedral, which has seen numerous solemn occasions in American history, has also scheduled a prayer service for male and female homosexuals, bisexuals, transgenders and their families for the evening of June 26.

 

The dean of the cathedral, Rev. Gary Hall said in a statement that the Supreme Court's decision rang his bells. He said that his church is glad “to celebrate the extension of federal marriage equality to all the same-sex couples modeling God’s love in lifelong covenants.” He added that the ruling should make Christian embrace same-sex marriage. 

 

The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church of the US, Bishop Katherine Jefferts Schori released a statement about the court's decision, saying "The Episcopal Church is presently engaged in a period of study and dialogue about the nature of Christian marriage.  This work is moving forward, with faithful people of many different perspectives seeking together to discern the movement of the Holy Spirit.  However, our Church has taken the position that neither federal nor state governments should create constitutional prohibitions that deny full civil rights and protections to gay and lesbian persons, including those available to different-sex couples through the civic institution of marriage."

 

Accordingly, I welcome today’s decision of the United States Supreme Court that strikes down the 17-year-old law prohibiting federal recognition of same-sex civil marriages granted by the states.  The unmistakable movement toward civil marriage equality in the states over the past decade reflects the will of the people in those states to grant equal rights and dignity under the law to all married couples and families, and today’s decision will appropriately allow those families to be recognized under federal law as well.  At the same time, the Court’s withholding of judgment on the ultimate constitutional question of whether a state may ban same-sex marriage reflects the fact that this conversation will continue to evolve in coming years." 

[John S Mosby]

“...discern the movement of the Holy Spirit”.... Really?
Try the Scripture, which the church long ago apparently selectively separated themselves from. Absolutely explains how far off the path.

The church also takes a political stand on this... since when does Scripture inform that.

[John S Mosby]

Almost Unitarians.... zero commit, made up Scripture. A “whatever” belief. Pop crap.

[Always A Marine]

"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths."
2 Timothy 4:3-4, ESV

[MarkBsnr]

A confirmation, as it were, of their descent through the nine levels...

[MestaMachine]

What is this episcopalians?

[kaehurowing]

They are a left-wing pseudo religious group that basically worships homosexuality. Another belief is that the Gospel has been replaced by the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, which even the U.N. doesn’t really believe in any more. Their “presiding bishop” believes Jesus is a woman (she prays to “Mother Jesus”), and she recently preached a sermon that it is a blessing to be demonically possessed. A totally whacked out cult.

[lightman]

In August of 2001 the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) estabalished a "Full Communion Partnership" with The Episcopal Church through the adoption of "Called to Common Mission".

Therefore:

Lutheran (EL C S*A) Ping!

* as of August 19, AD 2009, a liberal protestant SECT, not part of the holy, catholic and apostolic CHURCH.

Be rooted in Christ!

[lightman]

“...discern the movement of the Holy Spirit”.... Really?

Oh, it is a spirit alright, but a zeitgeist (spirit of the age) which is of the spiritus malignos ilk rebuked in the St. Michael prayer.

[Redleg Duke]

Another church that changed to a cult.

[Redleg Duke]

Pastor, when will the Episcopols and and ELCA can the traditional celebrations and just recognize “Festivus”?

[Cronos]

no, the UK is not leading, this was started by the Netherlands. We just see the UK’s fall as we are anglophone

[Jack Hydrazine]

I’ve read way too much where the UK takes the lead on various government and social movements and the US government adopts it.

[Mad Dawg]

Noi siam venuti al loco ov'i' t'ho detto
che tu vedrai le genti dolorose
c'hanno perduto il ben de l'intelletto

I watched this with naive and unbelieving trust -- trust that the church of my mother and the community in which I grew up could not possibly be so dead set against reason, tradition, and truth.

For all that I am sorrowful over their embracing so readily (and so dishonestly) what all the Christian world (or very nearly) rejected, I am even more astounded that now they have thrown admission to Holy Communion open to all, even to the unbaptized!

What Justin Martyr, what Saint Paul took as given, that the Blessed Sacrament was too great to be trifled with, that they exuberantly ignore in the name of hospitality, while they feed the consecrated Bread to dogs and pour the Precious Wine in the flower bed.

And in spite of that, some still pretend to be "catholic." But it is all of a piece. The proper use of the reason is to perceive the Truth; and the proper use of the will is to walk in the ways of Truth.

But all this means nothing to the new Episcopal Church. They see truth as their property, while we rightly belong to Him.

So, once again and still and forever, truth is chained, scourged, mocked, and killed in the sweaty couches of pagans and sodomites.

It is sad, but not surprising.

[MarkBsnr]

I mourn with you.

It is not of the intellect, but of the whim. It is not of reason, but emotion. It is not of the ages, but of the moment.

It is the worship of the god in the mirror.

[Mad Dawg]

It is the worship of the god in the mirror.

Yes. That is what it ends up being.