Fool Us Repeatedly, Shame On Us
By Bishop David
Anderson
May
our Lord bless you on this third Sunday in Advent.
The
news from around the world is mixed on Anglican issues, but court decisions in
the United States are continuing to abridge individual rights of freedom of
religion and speech. First, from the Church of England, we understand from Ruth
Gledhill that Dr. Jeffrey John, currently the Dean of St. Albans, has been
passed over as a bishop appointee for the conservative, evangelical diocese of
Exeter, and this is the tip-off that he has been deemed morally qualified to be
shortlisted on episcopal appointments throughout the church. Gledhill reminds
us that although John is in a civil partnership with the Rev. Grant Holmes, he
is supposedly in a celibate status. I'm sorry, but the conservatives have been lied
to by the ecclesiastical left for so long that my skepticism reaches to almost
hysterical fits of laughter. Is that a "wink, wink" or does someone
have an eye twitch? Fool us once, shame on you, fool us repeatedly, shame on us.
In the
USA, Colorado administrative law judge Robert N. Spencer has told the
Masterpiece Cakeshop, run by a Christian who believes in the Bible, that he
must violate his own religious beliefs and freedom of expression in order to
accommodate the wishes of a homosexual couple. The two men who were married in
Massachusetts wanted a cake in Colorado to celebrate. The Christian baker will
have to violate his own religious beliefs, pay fines and penalties or go out of
business. Where do we get these judges? One man's Constitutional freedom of
religious belief and speech has been suppressed by a judge in favor of
non-constitutional, recently invented rights, asserting that doing unnatural
things is not only all right, but protected behavior...Read more. Source: American Anglican Council
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