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Gene Robinson, first openly gay Episcopal bishop, announces his divorce
Religion News ^ | May 3, 2014 | Sarah Pulliam Bailey

Posted on 05/04/2014 4:50:35 AM PDT by Gamecock

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To: AppyPappy

Gene Robinson recently wrote that conservative Christians were behind the times on gay marriage. With great condescension, he said that their world was changing fast and they felt disoriented and confused.

Well, maybe we are old-fashioned, Gene, but at least we treat marriage with more reverence than you do. A truly God-centered marriage will never go out of style.


41 posted on 05/04/2014 9:56:16 AM PDT by heye2monn (MO)
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To: Gamecock

Perhaps an annulment is in order...


42 posted on 05/04/2014 10:08:05 AM PDT by Iscool (Ya mess with me, you mess with the WHOLE trailer park...)
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To: Gamecock

I guess the saying is true:

“Nobody loves you when you are old and gay.”


43 posted on 05/04/2014 10:39:15 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (WoT News: Rantburg.com)
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To: Gamecock

HAHAHAHA, ya can’t make this stuff up. Ok, so now he wants to marry a goat? Or a 10-year-old?


44 posted on 05/04/2014 11:26:14 AM PDT by SgtHooper (This is my tag!)
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To: dfwgator

Ok, ok, I’ll bite. I just gotta know what you bought!


45 posted on 05/04/2014 11:30:04 AM PDT by SgtHooper (This is my tag!)
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To: Walrus; Mean Maryjean
Johnny is recently "divorced" from its "husband," who got into something in Sochi that was detrimental to the "union."

46 posted on 05/04/2014 11:55:28 AM PDT by Genoa (Starve the beast.)
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To: Savage Beast
35 I thought the Episcopal Church refused to recognize divorce... At least a good friend, a life-long Episcopalian, was not allowed to marry in the Episcopal Church, in the 21st century, because one of the parties was divorced... and I thought this odd, considering the Founding Father of the Church of England... and I'm an Episcopalian. I'm sure it's just me. I'm confused. I'm sure that if if understood I would understand...or something like that...

Not sure how to take your post, so I'll choose black & white. Your close friend may well have been tyring to marry in 1 of the "continuing Anglican churches" which broke away from ECUSA/TEC. Some of them are very orthodox and will not marry a divorced person.

47 posted on 05/04/2014 1:05:35 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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To: trebb

That’s a great story. Are you still attending that non-denominational church?


48 posted on 05/04/2014 1:20:23 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Ouchthatonehurt

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49 posted on 05/04/2014 1:22:16 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Gamecock

“In the past decade, the Episcopal Church followed the decline in other mainline Protestant denominations and lost about 10 percent of its members.”

Boy, the embracing of theological liberalism, abortions, priestesses and homosexual behavior has sure worked out well for them hasn’t it?/sarc


50 posted on 05/04/2014 1:25:27 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: Gamecock

IIRC, at one time being divorced was a disqualification from being an Episcopal bishop.

But then this guy was divorced before. From his real wife.


51 posted on 05/04/2014 1:36:36 PM PDT by Salman
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To: MacNaughton

I haven’t been able to keep all the factions straight. It’s a very conservative congregation all right.


52 posted on 05/04/2014 1:45:36 PM PDT by Savage Beast (Hubris and denial overwhelm Western Civilization. Nemesis and tragedy always follow.)
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

Regress would be a better term. A regress towards paganism.


53 posted on 05/04/2014 3:12:01 PM PDT by ReformationFan
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To: St_Thomas_Aquinas

I wonder how they will divide their joint property? One gets the Preparation H, the other gets the Lysol . . .


54 posted on 05/04/2014 3:26:44 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obamacare: You can't make an omelette without breaking a few eggs.)
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To: Gamecock

Has he introduced the world to his new 18 year-old boyfriend yet?


55 posted on 05/04/2014 5:52:39 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: Gamecock; Impy; BillyBoy; NFHale; sickoflibs; GOPsterinMA

I guess he’s literally tired of his $hit.


56 posted on 05/04/2014 7:38:43 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: fieldmarshaldj; All

Good one!!!


57 posted on 05/04/2014 7:55:01 PM PDT by GOPsterinMA (Khent is not stable... be advised...)
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To: Savage Beast
>> I thought the Episcopal Church refused to recognize divorce... <<


You don't say!

58 posted on 05/04/2014 8:04:59 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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To: MacNaughton
>> "continuing Anglican churches" which broke away from ECUSA/TEC. Some of them are very orthodox and will not marry a divorced person. <<

"A continuing Anglican" church refusing to marry a divorced person is an oxymoron, given how Anglicanism came into existence. They should trade places with the "Catholic" congregations promoting abortion and gay marriage.

59 posted on 05/04/2014 8:26:08 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Looking at the weather lately, I could really use some 'global warming' right now!)
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To: Gamecock

Robinson is a heretic. I heard a rumor in the old days, heretics were warm for the rest of their lives...


60 posted on 05/04/2014 10:15:50 PM PDT by Michael1977
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