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Gay Episcopal bishop says 'Holy Spirit led us'

V. Gene Robinson
V. Gene Robinson

 
The openly gay Episcopal bishop whose ordination threatens to fracture the worldwide Anglican Communion said Wednesday he "genuinely and deeply regrets" the pain this caused some believers, but he sees no need to repent because "the Holy Spirit led us."

New Hampshire Bishop V. Gene Robinson spoke out in response to a report on reconciliation issued Monday by an international commission of church leaders.

The report criticized the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada, where a diocese had begun blessing same-sex marriages, for failing to consult with their international brethren. It also rapped international bishops who branded the American actions as a "satanic attack" on the faith.

The commission that authored the report was made up of 17 leaders of the 77 million-member worldwide Anglican Communion. It told the U.S. and Canadian churches to hold off electing or ordaining any more openly gay bishops. They said the action had wounded the communion by failing "to offer an explanation to, or consult meaningfully with, the communion as a whole about the significant development of theology."

Robinson also said Wednesday that the "big news" in the report is that it "opens the door to worldwide discussion" about the roles of gays and lesbians in the church.

Robinson, 57, a divorced father who lives with his male partner, pointed out that the moratorium on ordaining gays is not a permanent ban. "Moratoria get lifted," he said.

He said he finds it "astoundingly important" that there was no call to repentance and that the report stresses the great value of remaining in communion — willing to meet and pray together."

"Unity is not in unanimity over a particular issue, but in Jesus Christ," he said. "The communion is about relationships, not about laws. The report is very Gospel-like in this way. Jesus was always breaking laws and finding ways to love someone and to do the right thing."

Conservative bishops are outraged. The leader of 800 dissenting U.S. parishes, Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh, said the Bible condemns homosexual behavior and has said there cannot be "unity in falsehood."

The report reflects "patronizing" efforts by North American churches to "subvert the Christian faith," said Bishop Peter Akinola, head of the 17 million-member Anglican Church in Nigeria and an outspoken critic of gay participation in church leadership. Liberals, he told Reuters news service, are "hell-bent on destroying the fabric of our common life."

The debate will be the burning topic next week at the first-ever continent-wide gathering in Nigeria of about 300 African Anglican bishops, virtually all vehemently opposed to ordaining gay clergy.

It's just the first in a series of potential showdowns ahead. Bishops from the U.S. church will meet in January. At their last meeting, dissenting conservative bishops refused even to stay at the same conference hotel as bishops who gave Robinson their blessing.

The leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion, 38 primates of national and regional churches, will meet in February. The next global gathering of all bishops is in 2008.

"'Do not lie with a man as one lies with a woman; that is detestable.
"'Everyone who does any of these detestable things - such persons will be cut off from their people. Keep my requirements and do not follow any of the detestable customs that were practiced before you came and do not defile yourselves with them. I am the Lord your God.'" [This is the Lord speaking to Moses]
Leviticus 18:22, 29-30

The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground. "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can wash your feet and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning."

"No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."

But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and they ate. Before they had gone to bed, all the men from every part of the city of Sodom - both young and old - surrounded the house. They called to Lot, "Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us so that we can have sex with them."

Lot went outside to meet them and shut the door behind him and said, "No, my friends. Don't do this wicked thing. Look, I have to daughters who have never slept with a man. Let me bring them out to you, and you can do what you like with them. But don't do anything to these men, for they have come under the protection of my roof."

"Get out of our way," they replied. And they said, "This fellow came here as an alien, and now he wants to play the judge! We'll treat you worse than them." They kept bringing pressure on Lot and moved forward to break down the door.

But the men inside reached out and pulled Lot back into the house and shut the door. Then they struck the men who were at the door of the house, young and old, with blindness so that they could not find the door.

The two men said to Lot, "Do you have anyone else here - sons-in-law, sons or daughters, or anyone else in the city who belongs to you? Get them out of here, because we are going to destroy this place. The outcry to the Lord against its people is so great that he has sent us to destroy it.
Genesis 19:1-13

Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator - who is forever praised. Amen. Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
Romans 1:24-26

Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolators nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor theieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. And that is what some of you were. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
1 Corinthians 6:9-11

God Hates Homosexuality
 
Homosexuality is a sin period!
Not only that but it is unnatural
The same as sex with an animal is unnatural!
 
The Bible does not speak much of Homosexuality?
It also doesn't speak of incest or bestiality much more neither?
Guess you want to make them legal and not a sin also!
 

What is worse then the sin of Homosexuality?
Teaching people it's ok to do so.

As it is written,
But whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble,
it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck,
and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

The word homosexuality in the dictionairy states nothing about the person's age, just same sex!
Anybody who is attracted to the same sex is a homosexual regardless of age differences.
So a 20 year old man who molest a 14 year old boy is a Homosexual!

We also know that the law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and sinful, the unholy and irreligious; for those who kill their fathers or mothers, for murderers, for adulterers and perverts, for slave traders and liars and perjurers - and for whatever else is contrary to the sound doctrine that conforms to the glorious gospel of the blessed God, which he entrusted to me [Paul].
1 Timothy 1:9-11

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