• Anglican, Episcopal Church Elects Lesbian Bishop
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Source: [url]http://wjz.com/national/episcopal.lesbian.bishop.2.1352313.html[/url] [quote] LOS ANGELES (AP) ― The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles elected a lesbian as assistant bishop Saturday, the second openly gay bishop in the global Anglican fellowship, which is already deeply fractured over the first. The Rev. Mary Glasspool of Baltimore needs approval from a majority of national church leaders before she can be consecrated as assistant bishop in the Los Angeles diocese. Still, her victory underscored a continued Episcopal commitment to accepting same-sex relationships despite enormous pressure from other Anglicans to change their stand. The head of the Episcopal Church, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, has said she would consecrate any elected bishop as long as church rules for selection were followed. The Episcopal Church, which is the Anglican body in the United States, caused an uproar in 2003 by consecrating the first openly gay bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire. Robinson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Breakaway Episcopal conservatives have formed a rival church, the Anglican Church in North America. Several overseas Anglicans have been pressuring the Anglican spiritual leader, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, to officially recognize the new conservative entity. The Rev. Kendall Harmon of the theologically traditional Diocese of South Carolina, which recently voted to distance itself from the national church, said Saturday's vote would further damage relations among Episcopalians, their fellow Anglicans and other Christians. "This decision represents an intransigent embrace of a pattern of life Christians throughout history and the world have rejected as against biblical teaching," said Harmon, an adviser to the diocesan bishop. The 77-million-member Anglican Communion is a family of churches that trace their roots to the missionary work of the Church of England. Most overseas Anglicans are Bible conservatives. In 2004, Anglican leaders had asked the Episcopal Church for a moratorium on electing another gay bishop while they tried to prevent a permanent break in the fellowship. Since the request was made, some Episcopal gay priests were nominated for bishop, but none was elected before Glasspool. Last July, the Episcopal General Convention, the U.S. church's top policy making body, affirmed that gay and lesbian priests were eligible to become bishops. Jim Naughton of The Chicago Consultation, a group of Episcopal and Anglican clergy and lay people who advocate on behalf of gays and lesbians, called Glasspool's election "a liberation." "We've been around this issue for 30 years," said Naughton, an adviser to the Episcopal bishop of Washington. "It's unreasonable to expect us to refrain from acting on the very prayerful conclusions that we've reached, especially when we think there are issues of justice involved." Glasspool, 55, an adviser, or canon, for eight years to the Diocese of Maryland's bishop, said in an essay on the Los Angeles diocese Web site that she had an "intense struggle" while in college with her sexuality and the call to become a priest. "Did God hate me (since I was a homosexual), or did God love me?" she wrote. "Did I hate (or love) myself?" She said she met her partner, Becki Sander, while working in Massachusetts, and the two have been together since 1988. When a colleague recently asked for permission to submit Glasspool's name as a candidate in Los Angeles, she agreed because she believed it was time "for our wonderful church to move on and be the inclusive church we say we are." A graduate of Dickinson College and Episcopal Divinity School, Glasspool was ordained in 1981, and has led parishes in Annapolis, Md., Boston and Philadelphia. The Los Angeles diocese had openings for two assistant, or suffragan, bishops. In the election for the first vacancy Friday, the winner was the Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector of St. Clement's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church in San Clemente. She will be the first female bishop in the diocese. The Los Angeles diocese has 70,000 members and covers six Southern California counties. [/quote] People never cease to amaze me. Doesn't make any sense to me given what the Bible says about homosexuality.
Lol they're going to scissor
Does this mean that they're becoming tolerant?
[QUOTE=faze;18756371]Source: [url]http://wjz.com/national/episcopal.lesbian.bishop.2.1352313.html[/url] People never cease to amaze me. Doesn't make any sense to me given what the Bible says about homosexuality.[/QUOTE] Doesn't the bible only speak of sleeping with another man anyways?
[QUOTE=Hamsterman;18756422]Doesn't the bible only speak of sleeping with another man anyways?[/QUOTE] No, speaks of homosexuality. [quote=Bible] 1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor male prostitutes nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God." [/quote]
It's okay because all lesbians are [i]smokin hot[/i]
[QUOTE=faze;18756429]No, speaks of homosexuality.[/QUOTE] that quote is in context of paul visiting the greek temple at Corinth, he saw all of their statues and started to tell them to stop worshiping pedophiles.
Haaaaawt! :catholic:
[QUOTE=faze;18756429]No, speaks of homosexuality.[/QUOTE] Depends on translations maybe, mine doesn't mention anything homosexual there and all words about sexual stuff except for adulterers are aimed at males.
I think this is a good thing. A step toward religion accepting progression.
[QUOTE=Hamsterman;18756586]Depends on translations maybe, mine doesn't mention anything homosexual there and all words about sexual stuff except for adulterers are aimed at males.[/QUOTE] read my post good god
[quote=Bible]1 Corinthians 6:9-10 - "Do you not know that the wicked will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: Neither the sexually immoral nor idolaters nor adulterers nor [b][i]male[/i] prostitutes[/b] nor homosexual offenders nor thieves nor the greedy nor drunkards nor slanderers nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God."[/quote] I see what God did there...
Guess I'll be going to church now.
I call fake
[QUOTE=Figgis Fiddis;18756434]It's okay because all lesbians are [i]smokin hot[/i][/QUOTE] Oh dear lord no. Most of them are ugly butches and with mullets and a deep voice that puts the movie trailer guy to same.
This is bad news because the church accepting homosexuality is one less thing we can use to destroy religion with i.e. Growing numbers of people are pro-homosexual rights and so the church opposing it makes people oppose the church.
[QUOTE=Rubs10;18756789]This is bad news because the church accepting homosexuality is one less thing we can use to destroy religion with i.e. Growing numbers of people are pro-homosexual rights and so the church opposing it makes people oppose the church.[/QUOTE] Diddlin' kids is a big one.
[QUOTE=lmaoboat;18756727]Oh dear lord no. Most of them are ugly butches and with mullets and a deep voice that puts the movie trailer guy to same.[/QUOTE] I lol'd. I'm not a homophobe or anything, but the way you said it was just funny.
A Lesbian Bishop. A... Awha... Wha... :psyboom::psyboom:
Wow one step closer to Less Ignorance! I don't get religion, they allow lesbians, yet Not homos? lol.
...Irony is a word that comes to mind. :/
This is good, in light of the recent votes against gay marriage and all. Or something along those lines.
Wait a sec. I thought priests didn't...
[QUOTE=Boba_Fett;18757612]Wait a sec. I thought priests didn't...[/QUOTE] priests didn't what have sex hahah oh god better tell the catholic church that they are a little confused
[QUOTE=darnok;18756386]Does this mean that they're becoming tolerant?[/QUOTE] A little compromise to gain more jeebusheads.
[QUOTE=faze;18756429]No, speaks of homosexuality.[/QUOTE] It cannot possibly speak of homosexuality because the term homosexual was only invented in the 19th century. Before then it would have had to have specified men who have sex with men, and it wouldn't have mentioned women because the Bible only mentions women when it needs to cast a villain/have someone conveniently give birth to someone else.
Maybe I'll start going to church now :pervert:
If you know any Christians worth their salt, they will tell you that the Bible has nothing against homosexuality that can be taken seriously, Jesus never said anything about it, and they were all more concerned about adultery and [b] accepting and loving each other[/b].
[QUOTE=faze;18756371]Source: [url]http://wjz.com/national/episcopal.lesbian.bishop.2.1352313.html[/url] People never cease to amaze me. Doesn't make any sense to me given what the Bible says about homosexuality.[/QUOTE] The episcopal church doesn't give two shits about the bible. Fundimentalism != christianity
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