PITTSBURGH: Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson Encourages LGBT Presbyterians
PITTSBURGH: Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson Encourages LGBT Presbyterians
By Bart Gingerich
JUICY ECUMENISM
The Institute on Religion & Democracy
http://juicyecumenism.com/author/bgingerich/
July 1, 2012
More Light Presbyterians, radical LGBT caucus for the PCUSA, welcomed homosexual Episcopal bishop and Center for American Progress fellow Gene Robinson to address their General Assembly dinner in Pittsburgh. MLP Executive Director and Field Organizer Michael Adee introduced Robinson as "one of the great innovators of Christianity" (after which he shared pro-LGBT slogans such as "Jesus had two dads, and He turned out okay").
After receiving his standing ovation, Bishop Robinson chirped, "The work I think you have done creates much confusion in the Presbyterian church. And let me tell you that confusion is a huge step forward from certainty." He complained of his supposed sufferings from his ordination, i.e. Biblical and orthodox Anglicans across the world thrown into outrage, causing a rift not only with Global South dioceses but also a split within the Episcopal Church (USA). Now the Anglican Communion faces what to do with the EPUSA as a result of its abandonment of sexuality standards. Robinson likened the Archbishop of Canterbury to a father and the EPUSA as a son coming out to his parents. "It is in those moments that the father has to ask how deep and how wide is his love for his son," the bishop mused.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
By Bart Gingerich
JUICY ECUMENISM
The Institute on Religion & Democracy
http://juicyecumenism.com/author/bgingerich/
July 1, 2012
More Light Presbyterians, radical LGBT caucus for the PCUSA, welcomed homosexual Episcopal bishop and Center for American Progress fellow Gene Robinson to address their General Assembly dinner in Pittsburgh. MLP Executive Director and Field Organizer Michael Adee introduced Robinson as "one of the great innovators of Christianity" (after which he shared pro-LGBT slogans such as "Jesus had two dads, and He turned out okay").After receiving his standing ovation, Bishop Robinson chirped, "The work I think you have done creates much confusion in the Presbyterian church. And let me tell you that confusion is a huge step forward from certainty." He complained of his supposed sufferings from his ordination, i.e. Biblical and orthodox Anglicans across the world thrown into outrage, causing a rift not only with Global South dioceses but also a split within the Episcopal Church (USA). Now the Anglican Communion faces what to do with the EPUSA as a result of its abandonment of sexuality standards. Robinson likened the Archbishop of Canterbury to a father and the EPUSA as a son coming out to his parents. "It is in those moments that the father has to ask how deep and how wide is his love for his son," the bishop mused.
Read the full story at www.VirtueOnline.org
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