http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/episcopalchurch/ en-us Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:01:30 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417015/posts I have been looking for God my whole life. I first recognized Him in the black foster parents I worked with who manifested Christ-consciousness. I then found him four years ago, when my parents died three weeks apart and I was carried by a force stronger than myself. And more recently, as I’ve gone from left to right, I have discovered him in the many conservatives guiding me, such as AT readers. American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2417015/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 17:01:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401205/posts BREAKING: Diocese of Los Angeles Elects Non-Celibate Lesbian As Suffragan Bishop Stand Firm http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2401205/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 22:56:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385981/posts Planned Parenthood Director Who Quit Now Rejected by Episcopalian Church Bryan, TX -- The religious denominations that embrace abortion do so supposedly because they are tolerant and welcoming of people who disagree on issues like abortion. Yet, that is not proving to be the case for Abby Johnson, the former Planned parenthood director who quit after converting to the pro-life perspective. http://www.LifeNews.com/state4578.html LifeNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2385981/posts#comment Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:17:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305497/posts Government: Regulate this! The homosexual bathhouse Steamworks -- an anonymous sex club for men who have sex with men that operates in Berkeley, Chicago, Seattle, Toronto and Vancouver — offered “student discounts” during Spring Break 2009 ($5 off to 18-and-older young men who presented a student ID). Why is the government allowing the open promotion — even to youth — of behavior that is a causative factor in a number of sex diseases including HIV? “Gay” web sites are blasting AFTAH for calling for a comprehensive federal study into the health risks of homosexual sex. Folks, as we could have... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2305497/posts#comment Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:39:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2304666/posts In November 1987, two Gay Activists penned an article published in a Gay Magazine titled THE OVERHAULING OF STRAIGHT AMERICA, which was essentially the outline of “a propaganda campaign to confuse and deceive the American people about their objectives.” Tactics mentioned include “intimidation, lies, and fear to silence opposition.” Nowhere is then seen any better than in California after passage of their Proposition 8, overturning the legislative action allowing same-sex marriage in that state. It can also be seen quite vividly today in Washington State as a measure allowing Domestic Partnerships legal standing, laughably referred to as “Everything but marriage,”... Right In A Left World http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2304666/posts#comment Thu, 30 Jul 2009 19:36:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303973/posts Only You. And You. And You. Polyamory—relationships with multiple, mutually consenting partners—has a coming-out party. Terisa Greenan and her boyfriend, Matt, are enjoying a rare day of Seattle sun, sharing a beet carpaccio on the patio of a local restaurant. Matt holds Terisa's hand, as his 6-year-old son squeezes in between the couple to give Terisa a kiss. His mother, Vera, looks over and smiles; she's there with her boyfriend, Larry. Suddenly it starts to rain, and the group must move inside. In the process, they rearrange themselves: Matt's hand touches Vera's leg. Terisa gives Larry a kiss. The child,... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2303973/posts#comment Wed, 29 Jul 2009 23:05:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295500/posts Durham, N.C. — Duke University has fired an employee who faces federal child sex charges. Frank M. Lombard, 42, of 24 Indigo Creek Trail in Durham, was let go from his position as associate director of the Center for Health Policy at Duke, a spokesman said. Duke Vice President for Public Affairs Michael Schoenfeld said Lombard was placed on unpaid leave at the time of his arrest June 24 and was fired Monday. Schoenfeld added that the university was cooperating with the investigation. Lombard faces extradition to Washington, D.C., to face charges that he solicited an adult to have... http://www.wral.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295500/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:52:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295540/posts The leader of a pro-family organization says families across the nation need to contact their U.S. senators now to try to derail a legislative plan that already has passed the U.S. House and is being awaited by President Obama – after a Democrat confirmed it would protect "all 547 forms of sexual deviancy or 'paraphilias' listed by the American Psychiatric Association." WND columnist Janet Porter, who also heads the Faith2Action Christian ministry, today cited S. 909, dubbed the "Pedophile Protection Act," as an extreme danger to America. As H.R. 1913, the House version of the Local Law Enforcement Hate Crimes... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2295540/posts#comment Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:43:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233064/posts The first openly gay Episcopal bishop told a Studio City gathering today that the church should begin mending divisions over the issue of same-sex marriage by getting out of the civil marriage business altogether. During a visit to St. Michael & All Angels Church this morning, the Rev. V. Eugene Robinson said he favored the system used in France and other parts of Europe in which civil marriage – performed by government officials – is completely separate from religious vows. In the U.S., the civil and religious ceremonies are often combined with the cleric signing the government marriage license. "In... LAT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233064/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 00:46:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228338/posts The announcement that the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA, has chosen a lesbian, pro-abortion president to lead the seminary has sent shock waves around the Anglican Communion. The appointment of Katherine Hancock Ragsdale highlights a week that also saw TEC bishop-elect Kevin Thew Forrester replace a reading from the New Testament with a reading from the Quran at St. Paul's Marquette, Michigan. One wonders what Episcopal boundaries and barriers have yet to be crossed that the dying embers of historic Christianity could possibly fan into life. That the Diocese of Massachusetts has a functioning transgendered priest complete with a... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2228338/posts#comment Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:24:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215113/posts It's a subject that can cause nervous snickering, a little uneasiness and even a few bad jokes. But many in the southeast Alaska community of Klawock, population 800, weren't laughing last April after a 26-year-old registered sex offender was accused of molesting a local family's pet dog. The man was spotted by a local woman coaxing the Labrador retriever into the woods near a ball field. There he allegedly tied it to a tree, taped its muzzle shut with duct tape and had sex with it, witnesses told police at the time. The man had been twice convicted of raping... http://www.wctv.tv/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2215113/posts#comment Thu, 26 Mar 2009 11:57:39 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2210211/posts The act of bestiality is a step closer to becoming illegal in Florida now that a Senate committee voted to slap a third-degree felony charge on anyone who has sex with animals. Florida is one of only 16 states that still permit bestiality -– a fact that animal-rights activist and Sunrise Sen. Nan Rich learned to her horror when a Panhandle man three years ago was suspected of accidentally asphyxiating a family goat with which he was copulating. “There’s a tremendous correlation between sexually deviant behavior and crimes against children and crimes against animals,” said Rich, a Sunrise Democrat. “This... The Buzz Florida Politics News from the Times Staff http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2210211/posts#comment Thu, 19 Mar 2009 21:10:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1771558/posts Documentary on beastiality premieres at Sundance Film Festival By Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times Posted January 21 2007, 6:39 PM EST PARK CITY, Utah -- "Zoo" is a documentary about what director Robinson Devor accurately characterizes as "the last taboo, on the boundary of something comprehensible." But remarkably, an elegant, eerily lyrical film has resulted. "Zoo," premiering before a rapt audience Saturday night at Sundance, manages to be a poetic film about a forbidden subject, a perfect marriage between a cool and contemplative director (the little-seen "Police Beat") and potentially incendiary subject matter: sex between men and animals. Not graphic... Sun sentinel http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1771558/posts#comment Mon, 22 Jan 2007 14:20:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2211059/posts The atheists and humanists must have been eyeing the benefits of Christian congregations because they now want a piece of the action. To accomplish this, they are establishing God-free, um, church-type places. They want all the benefits of a Christian church without the Christian part. I can save them a great deal of trouble in starting this God-free denomination. All they need to do is find their local mainline Protestant church. Why reinvent the wheel? These atheists, agnostics and humanists will feel right at home on Evolution Sunday, listening to lectures about the glories of man, and they can have... Slice of Laodicea http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2211059/posts#comment Fri, 20 Mar 2009 21:50:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209381/posts Bestiality Soon to Be Outlawed in Florida Lawmakers Consider Felony Charges For Sex With Animals By  BRIAN HAMACHER Updated 2:00 PM EDT, Wed, Mar 18, 2009   Florida lawmakers are trying to make it harder to violate goats and any other defenseless creature.   It looks like man and dog are going to legally remain best friends if the state of Florida has its say.The State's Senate agriculture committee, in a long overdue measure, has voted unanimously to charge anyone who has sex with animals with a third-degree felony.Amazingly, Florida is one of 16 states that still permits bestiality,... NBC Miami http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2209381/posts#comment Wed, 18 Mar 2009 20:24:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164889/posts US President-elect Barack Obama has invited gay bishop Gene Robinson to lead prayers at the opening of celebrations next Sunday leading up to his inauguration next week. The invitation will go some way to placate liberal critics in the US who condemned his invitation to the anti-gay evangelical pastor Rick Warren to deliver the invocation at the inauguration itself. Bishop Robinson was himself among those who attacked Mr Obama over the choice of Rick Warren, describing it as a "slap in the face". Bishop Robinson, whose consecration in 2003 was met with worldwide protests from the conservative wing of the... The Times Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2164889/posts#comment Thu, 15 Jan 2009 09:15:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2152682/posts The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness did not overcome it (John 1:5). The world settles into winter, at least in the northern hemisphere, and life to many seems increasingly bleak. Foreclosures, layoffs, government bailouts and financial failures, continuing war on two fronts, terrorist attacks, murders of some identified only by their faith -- this world is in abundant need of light. We know light that is not overcome by darkness, for God has come among us in human flesh. Born in poverty to a homeless couple, to a people long under occupation, Jesus is human and divine... Episcopal News Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2152682/posts#comment Mon, 22 Dec 2008 16:25:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145181/posts RIVERSIDE, Calif. - The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has joined seven other dioceses in passing a resolution asking the church to let lesbians as well as homosexual men become bishops. The vote at the diocesan convention rejected the Episcopal Church's de facto moratorium on electing homosexual bishops since its 2003 consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, who lives with his same-sex partner. The resolution will be considered at the Episcopal Church's national convention next July. The Los Angeles diocese also expressed support for homosexual "marriage" with the creation of the "Sacramental Blessing for a Life-long Covenant." OneNewsNow http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2145181/posts#comment Tue, 9 Dec 2008 00:04:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131118/posts At the end of the day, that might be the only place pansexual behavior is accepted. The culture seems to be on a march away from the gadarene slide towards the sexual abyss. If The Episcopal Church continues on its present pathway, it may find itself all alone galloping over the cliff edge... Catholic Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2131118/posts#comment Thu, 13 Nov 2008 01:07:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2120291/posts JOHN SHELBY SPONG, whose books have sold more than a million copies, was Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Newark for 24 years. His admirers acclaim him as a teaching bishop who makes contemporary theology accessible to the ordinary layperson. A longtime champion of progressive Christianit y, Spong is a visionary voice in the religious communit y, calling people to step beyond boundaries of tribe, prejudice, gender and even religion to create a new humanit y. He is a committed Christian who has spent a lifetime studying the Bible and whose life has been deeply shaped by it. Now he... Countryside Community United Church of Christ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2120291/posts#comment Fri, 31 Oct 2008 01:56:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2025613/posts Police -- Stonington Pastor Provided Alcohol For Minors http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=bd09de68-90d0-408b-aa22-6d3f42ec354e http://tinyurl.com/6jdj56 Priest arrested during party after 2 girls hospitalized for intoxication Published on 6/3/2008 By Joe Wojtas Stonington - Police arrested the Rev. Mark Robinson of Calvary Episcopal Church Monday and charged him with hosting a graduation party at his Barnes Road home Sunday night that resulted in two 17-year-old girls being taken by ambulance to The Westerly Hospital for treatment for intoxication. The 50-year-old Robinson, who has led the borough church since 1993, was charged with delivery of alcohol to minors, second-degree reckless endangerment and permitting minors to possess alcohol.... The Day http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/2025613/posts#comment Wed, 4 Jun 2008 01:38:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024141/posts I’m not going to name any presidential candidates in this column. But it is true that the question of whether or how we should conduct a war against terrorism is a part of the national debate now going on. Nor am I talking just about politicians. There is a discussion group in my church (Episcopalian) who read with favor the works of an Irish theologian who believes that Christianity’s purpose is the creation of a pacifist, secular government on Earth. This, however, is not a new concept. The same idea, that all war is “unChristian,” was present at the time... Apecial to FreeRepublic http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2024141/posts#comment Sat, 31 May 2008 21:28:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1996524/posts "The Court agrees that it was major divisions such as those within the Methodist and Presbyterian churches that prompted the passage of 57-9. However, it blinks at reality to characterize the ongoing division within the Diocese, ECUSA, and the Anglican Communion as anything but a division of the first magnitude..." Stand Firm In Faith http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1996524/posts#comment Fri, 4 Apr 2008 06:43:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987300/posts Plots by Communists to infiltrate America. The disintegration of borders and rural areas. Citizens mobilizing and rising up against government agencies and big business. It all sounds like the plot for a summer blockbuster, but it's something that could be happening in your own backyard. These were just a few of the topics addressed in the "How to fight the TTC" workshop, held Monday at the Pitser Garrison Civic Center in Lufkin. The conference served as an informational meeting aimed at informing citizens and local government officials how they can unite in trying to stop the proposed Trans-Texas Corridor project.... The Lufkin Daily News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1987300/posts#comment Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:19:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985284/posts A Piney Woods retreat that has hosted national church conferences on controversial issues, celebrated the consecration of bishops and provided summer memories for thousands of teens now faces another kind of challenge. The nearly two square miles of forest, hills, fields, lakes and buildings that make up Camp Allen Conference & Retreat Center, 15 miles southeast of Navasota, lie in a two-mile-wide strip listed in state documents as the preferred route for the planned Interstate 69/Trans-Texas Corridor. Proposed by Gov. Rick Perry in 2002, the corridor plan has drawn heated opposition at town hall meetings and public hearings throughout Southeast... Houston Chronicle http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1985284/posts#comment Thu, 13 Mar 2008 22:33:58 GMT