BROKEN CLOCKS
Episcopal radicals like Susan Russell and Jim Naughton regularly hang the “bigot” label on anyone who disagrees with them about any aspect of The Issue, from homosexual bishops to homosexual marriages. But guess which prominent Episcopalian thinks that Naughton’s and Russell’s attitude is actually kind of stupid. Here’s a hint: he’s the recently-retired Episcopal bishop of a diocese whose name rhymes with Blue Thrampshire:
Christians who oppose gay marriage are sometimes described as “haters.” Is that characterization fair?
No. I’m concerned about the escalating violent language and overstatement. We can’t have a civil discussion about much of anything. I do not believe that everyone who opposes gay marriage hates gay people. There are many principled faithful people who oppose it based on what they have been taught to believe and do believe. We do not move forward by asserting that the other side is hating us.
Credit where it’s due. If Gene Robinson thinks people need to dial down the bigotry blasts, where does that leave Naughton and Russell? And if more people in the Episcopal Organization agreed with Robbie, might the last twelve years of the Current Unpleasantness have been somewhat less unpleasant than they turned out to be?
Nah.
Be that as it may, seeing as how reasonable Gene Robinson suddenly seems, are you going to start attending an Episcopal Organization outlet again, Chris? Not a chance. The fact of the matter is that homosexual bishops and homosexual marriages don’t even scratch the surface of what’s wrong with TEO and really had nothing to do with why I should have been out of TEO long before anyone ever heard the name Gene Robinson.
Figuring a Biblical way past the gay thing only brings you to the nooner-with-Unitarianism “theology” of the current Episcopal prayer book, TEO’s enthusiastic embrace of abortion and groups like Murder, Inc. and the [Pseudo] Religious Coalition for Ripping apart Children, the hard leftist politics and the fact that the first commenter to this story was Susan Russell who applauded it (didn’t read it all the way to the end, did you, Susie Q?), proving once again that Episcopalians don’t seriously believe much of anything.
Robbie was only a symptom. The disease had set in long before him.
Christians who oppose gay marriage are sometimes described as “haters.” Is that characterization fair?
No. I’m concerned about the escalating violent language and overstatement. We can’t have a civil discussion about much of anything. I do not believe that everyone who opposes gay marriage hates gay people. There are many principled faithful people who oppose it based on what they have been taught to believe and do believe. We do not move forward by asserting that the other side is hating us.
Credit where it’s due. If Gene Robinson thinks people need to dial down the bigotry blasts, where does that leave Naughton and Russell? And if more people in the Episcopal Organization agreed with Robbie, might the last twelve years of the Current Unpleasantness have been somewhat less unpleasant than they turned out to be?
Nah.
Be that as it may, seeing as how reasonable Gene Robinson suddenly seems, are you going to start attending an Episcopal Organization outlet again, Chris? Not a chance. The fact of the matter is that homosexual bishops and homosexual marriages don’t even scratch the surface of what’s wrong with TEO and really had nothing to do with why I should have been out of TEO long before anyone ever heard the name Gene Robinson.
Figuring a Biblical way past the gay thing only brings you to the nooner-with-Unitarianism “theology” of the current Episcopal prayer book, TEO’s enthusiastic embrace of abortion and groups like Murder, Inc. and the [Pseudo] Religious Coalition for Ripping apart Children, the hard leftist politics and the fact that the first commenter to this story was Susan Russell who applauded it (didn’t read it all the way to the end, did you, Susie Q?), proving once again that Episcopalians don’t seriously believe much of anything.
Robbie was only a symptom. The disease had set in long before him.
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