CORNELL UNIVERSITY: Gay bishop: Bible silent on gays
CORNELL UNIVERSITY: Gay bishop: Bible silent on gays
Mere tolerance not sufficient, Episcopal leader says
By Rachel Stern
http://tinyurl.com/3rgwjzf
April 7, 2011
Bishop Gene Robinson has a favorite bumper sticker: Guns don't kill people, religions do.
"That would be funny if it weren't true," he said. "I would argue that 95 percent of all the pain and prejudice we as LGBT people have experienced can be laid at the feet of religious people."
About 300 people gathered inside Sage Chapel on the Cornell University campus Wednesday to hear Robinson speak. He delivered the 2011 Frederick C. Wood Lecture sponsored by Cornell United Religious Work.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
Mere tolerance not sufficient, Episcopal leader says
By Rachel Stern
http://tinyurl.com/3rgwjzf
April 7, 2011
"That would be funny if it weren't true," he said. "I would argue that 95 percent of all the pain and prejudice we as LGBT people have experienced can be laid at the feet of religious people."
About 300 people gathered inside Sage Chapel on the Cornell University campus Wednesday to hear Robinson speak. He delivered the 2011 Frederick C. Wood Lecture sponsored by Cornell United Religious Work.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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