Get this. A gay Episcopalian Bishop is accusing African bishops of acting like racist slaveholders. I know. You can’t make this stuff up.
Here’s the particulars: Gay American bishop Gene Robinson on Tuesday gave this wonderful quote:
“It’s very painful for me. Coming out of the experience of the United States, where we treated people from Africa as less than human, where we used scripture to justify their slavery and their continued bondage … it’s very very painful to have those people in Africa in some sense using the same thinking against gay and lesbian people and against me.”
I think it’s the “against me” part that really has Robinson mad.
Robinson, oddly enough, is planning a wedding to his boyfriend of 18 years to take place just weeks before the upcoming Lambeth conference. 18 years together and the wedding is planned for right before the conference? There have been reports that fully 6 of 10 Bishops might boycott next year’s conference unless there is an unequivocal common covenant that the bishops will not authorise any Rite of Blessing for same-sex unions.
Robinson insists the two have nothing to do with each other. And if you disbelieve him that means you’re a racist slaveholder. If you do believe him that probably means you’re an idiot.
August 29, 2007 at 3:23 am
Well… since you put it that way, it’s a tough call, but I’m going to go with being a racist slaveholder. It’s something you can fix. But you can’t fix being an idiot.
August 29, 2007 at 5:40 am
18 years and not married? So, even with him assuming that homosexual acts are not a sin, he was STILL living in sin?
Are there bishops anywhere else that are claiming the moral high group while openly maintaining a live in lover for 18 years?
And that even before we deal with the intrinsic dissorder of same sex acts!
August 29, 2007 at 2:37 pm
I think the Anglicans could really be in trouble next year.
August 29, 2007 at 7:03 pm
With the Keystone Cops, a.k.a., ECUSA, It gets to the point of “what’s it going to be this week?”
All I can say, is what I read in a book called “Exodus.”
Paraphrasing …everytime celebrity heretics make headlines they also make Catholics; and very good Catholics at that.
August 29, 2007 at 8:20 pm
I’ve learned more from former Protestants who became Catholic (like Scott Hahn) than any CCD teacher I ever had.