Not content with merely tearing his own Church apart, openly homosexual Episcopal New Hampshire Bishop Gene Robinson is now meddling with ours.
Apparently back in 2005 or so, Robinson helped lead a secret retreat of gay Catholic clergy. I cannot help but wonder that if it was so secret, why is he talking about it now. Can nothing stay in the closet with this guy? But I digress.
Bishop Gene helped lead the hush-hush homosexual huddle by telling his comrades that the best way to fight for gay rights in the church is to advocate for female ordination. The root of our deep seated homophobia, you see, is deep seated misogyny. Yes, we hate women too.
About 75 Catholic clergy from around the U.S. participated without notifying their bishops or provincial leaders, Robinson said. In 2005, the Vatican issued a document affirming the church’s stance that men with “deep-seated” attraction to other men should not be ordained.
The retreat was held outside of New England, but Robinson would not say where…
…”at its root, the hatred of gays is driven by a hatred and second-class status of women,” Robinson said…
“I had said to them, ‘It’s too dangerous for you to come out as gay to your superiors, but I believe that if you work for the ordination of women in your church, you will go a long way toward opening the door for the acceptance of gay priests,” Robinson said.
Yes, let’s follow Bishop Gene’s advice and we can destroy our Church the same way he is helping to destroy his own. Or not.
See Gene, in the Catholic Church (although we certainly have our own problems) We are required to believe what the Apostles believed and what Jesus taught them. This has been faithfully handed down from generation to generation and is infallibly protected by the Holy Spirit. Sorry, but no amount of bath-house ecumenism is going to change that.
October 30, 2008 at 4:13 am
Has anyone, anyone at all piped up and offered that they attended?
75 people who disappeared for the same weekend… And no one has an idea about it otherwise?
Has anyone who tended the grounds, cooked the breakfast, made the beds, piped up?
Frankly, if it even did happen, I wish he had taken the opportunity to incardinate these boys into his “diocese”.
Let him have the mess.
October 30, 2008 at 4:20 am
Is it dishonesty or ignorance that leads people like Bishop Gene to call it “hatred?” That’s the mother of all straw arguments.
I’ll tell you what I hate: I hate it when people who disagree with me pretend that they have some kind of x-ray into my soul and pronounce my disagreement not one from reason, but from bigotry. THAT’S what I hate.
October 30, 2008 at 5:58 pm
From over here on the technically-still-Episcopalian-but-not-really side of things, this is pretty standard stuff for the Episcopal left. Think homosexual sex is a sin? Then you obviously “hate” homosexuals.
Why? Because the writers of Scripture didn’t know about long-term, committed same-sex relationships. Since we Christians believe, or at least we used to, that the writers of Scripture were inspired by the Holy Spirit, one wonders why God didn’t see fit to bring it up back then but Robbie’s just reading a script and he can’t be bothered with details.
October 30, 2008 at 10:13 pm
It’s good to keep in mind that when some Anglicans and journalists say “Catholic priest,” they mean to include “defrocked priest living with lover in San Francisco,” “woman ordained by Sinead O’Connor in St. Louis synagogue” and “Pope Michael I who lives in mom’s basement.”
October 31, 2008 at 2:12 am
kevin jones, you're right there. It's worse when it comes from a Catholic Paper:
http://www.adelaide.catholic.org.au/sites/SouthernCross/top-stories?more=9333&print=1
No mention that both Anglican "orders" and women's "orders" are absoutely null and utterly void. Rev Joan is simply an "Anglican priest" – no wonder so many people get confused.
October 31, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Any bets on whether Canon 908 was violated?
Can. 908 Catholic priests are forbidden to concelebrate the Eucharist with priests or ministers of Churches or ecclesial communities which do not have full communion with the Catholic Church.
October 31, 2008 at 2:38 pm
In a way, I agree with Mr. Robinson. If the barriers to women’s ordination fall, then the floodgates will be opened for sodomite clergy and worse. Which is just one of many reasons why women’s ordination and stealth pseudo-ordinations (appointing them as “pastoral associates” or whatever) must be opposed.
November 29, 2008 at 12:32 pm
dcs-
Please do not use the word ‘sodomite.’ It is an insulting and demaning term that is associated with beatings, torture, and burning, often at the behest of the Church throughout history. Gays find the word offensive, and since the “n” word is off limits because blacks find the word historically rooted in racism, so we, motivated by charity, ought to avoid the “s” word. Oh, that would apply to the “f” word as well.