THE WASHINGTON TIMES Jon Ward
Planned Parenthood should target “people of faith” to promote abortion rights and comprehensive sex education, the Episcopal Church’s first openly homosexual bishop told a gathering in the District yesterday.
“In this last election we see what the ultimate result of divorce from communities of faith will do to us,” New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson said during Planned Parenthood’s fifth annual prayer breakfast.
“Our defense against religious people has to be a religious defense. … We must use people of faith to counter the faith-based arguments against us,” he said.
Another Gem from Gene, Exodus Not Inclusive with Respect to Heterosexuals
According to the Washington Times VGR claims that the Exocus story belongs to gays
and non-gays “can’t have it.” See quote copied below.
“We have allowed the Bible to be taken hostage, and it is being wielded by folks who would use it to hit us over the head. We have to take back those Scriptures,” he said. “You know, those stories are our stories. I tell this to lesbian folk all the time: The story of freedom in Exodus is our story. … That’s my story, and they can’t have it.
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I think that VGR should be encouraged to speak in public as often as possible. He keeps coming up with gems like these. Bound to gain him all sorts of support. Wonder if the Jews know about this interpretation.
Speaking of gems, this one’s a beauty: “We have allowed the Bible to be taken hostage, and it is being wielded by folks who would use it to hit us over the head. We have to take back those Scriptures,” he said. “You know, those stories are our stories. I tell this to lesbian folk all the time: The story of freedom in Exodus is our story. … That’s my story, and they can’t have it.”
We should make a DVD with this man and distribute it widely to anyone still wondering which side their are on. This should wake them up reall quick. It should also help make some magnificient TV commercials for the 2008 presidential campaign. Just super-impose Hillary’s face over his voice and you’ll have a winner!!! 😉
Kansas City Star and Gene Robinson
The Kansas City Star, which should be named the Kansas City Filter, wrote a fairly lengthy article about a large Episcopalian Church in the Johnson County, Kansas area that voted to withdraw from ECUSA. Helen T. Gray, wrote an entire article about the withdrawal from ECUSA without ever mentioning the name of Gene Robinson. She made some vague references about “difference in Scriptural interpretation.” If you had not been following religious events in the United States through other sources, you would have had no idea that Gene Robinson was the immediate, direct and proximate cause. Kansas City is also home to a Orthodox congregation headed by a former Episcopalian priest who pulled out of ECUSA along with a fairly large group of his former parishioners. This occurred prior to Gene Robinson but it reflects the loss that ECUSA is suffering daily.
Shame, I came upon the old Book of Common Prayer and although I am not qualified to evaluate the theology contained in it, the Book of Common Prayer certainly contained some very beautiful, powerful and reverent passages. Very moving language, left behind by ECUSA. Shame.
In the defence of Anglicans, a good many of us are resisting the trend to soften and follow the world. Unlike many of those who’ve gone liberal, we remember that at our baptism we were charged to ‘fight valiantly under the banner of Christ against Sin, The World, and the Devil’ People like Robinson, Jeffreys, and so forth have failed in this duty, and failed spectacularly.
It is not altogether surprising that Robinson should try to re-write history and scripture by taking Exodus as a story of homosexual deliverance from oppression. For an excuse for a man like him, it follows logically, if one can call such twisted thinking logical.
And that’s what brings me to the really important point here. The nub, if you like. It’s twisted logic that they’ll use to take Christianity down. Oh, they’ll call their new idol Christianity, and they’ll talk about the Spirit of Christ (by which they’ll probably mean something those heretics over at the Jesus Project came up with during a lunchbreak) but it won’t be anything like true Christianity.
The answer, as far as I can see at present is to keep things simple. Once the opposition’s logic begins to tell you that ‘fair is foul and foul is fair’, you know you’re in trouble. Hold fast to what is good, and give no quarter to those who would deceive and trick you.
Not so Dumb Brit
Apologies, I should have been less sarcastic. I wasn’t raised in the Anglican tradition but I have looked at the traditional Book of Common Prayer and I just wanted to mention that I found its language very beautiful and very powerful. I know that there are many truly wonderful Christians in the Anglican church. Certainly Bishop Akinola is an example of a very principled and courages person, I am sure there are many, many more. The American Anglicans have been leaders in the Institute for Religion and Democracy which gathers orthodox believers in three American Prostestant denominations.
My primary criticism was of the reporting of the Kansas City Star, which should be known as the Kansas City Filter, when it comes to religion. Its religion writers are extremely PC. Never a bad word about Islam, Muslims or Islamic practice. I consider them to be tacit supporters of VGR. The Kansas Episcopalian Church left ECUSA because of Gene Robinson, the Kansas City Star managed to write an entire article without mentioning this. I consider this to be a subtle effort to cover up the damage that Gene Robinson is doing to ECUSA. Entire congregations are leaving ECUSA on a daily basis and Gene Robinson is the proximate cause. The Kansas City Star doesn’t want people to make that connection, they are in fact protecting Gene Robinson from truthful assertions that he is splitting his Church up and weakening it.
Best wishes to you.
Not to worry, I never thought you were attacking the CoE, though it certainly deserves it. I was, I suppose, apologising for it, more than anything else. We’ve a long way to go before we can get to the state of a Church deserving respect, though.
Free Speech Horror Stories from UK
Hey, Brit, on this side of the pond, we hear a alot of “free speech” horror stories. It is true that one has to be very careful to avoid comments which are considered “insulting” to one group or another? Can you be prosecuted? What is the straight scoop? You read so many things that it is difficult to sift out what is believable.
Well, not being a reporter myself, I don’t get access to lots of news stories 1st hand. But the Internet (thank God for technology’s good uses) provides me with thousands at 2nd hand. I recommend http://www.nannyknowsbest.com and http://www.anenglishmanscastle.com for keeping an eye on the UK. http://www.fmft.net is excellent, where the former two are just very very good.
Recent stories about not wanting to offend people include hot cross buns being pulled from school canteens so that muslims don’t get upset, and a muslim girl spouting propaganda til she was allowed to wear the full get-up. In doing this, she went against most muslims’ opinions at her school, including her headmistress, another muslim.
I just found this, which might give you an idea of things over here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/4463541.stm
Dark days for England.