So even though not everyone is GLBT, he is accepting this public view on behalf of that group, yet he decides that since not everyone is Christian, the bishop (!) is going to erase his Christianity for the sake of inclusiveness. Well, since there are atheists in America, why pray at all? Why not include them by shutting up?
The metamessage here is that being GLBT is important and will be proclaimed to the nation, but that being Christian is not and will be hidden. Or maybe it is so important, as a negative, that it must be hidden.
This is how liberal "diversity" really works. Any traditionally successful (aka "dominant" or "conventional") group must erase itself in order to make room for the traditionally unsuccessful (aka "oppressed" or "minority") group.
I wonder if any imams are invited and if they will be acting as if they are not imams. We know how ecumenical and humble Muslims are about all this.
And if any black Christian preachers show up and use the Bible and Jesus in prayer, I am sure Rev. Gene will "respect their choice". Cause we all know that blacks have an instinctually religious nature and their history of oppression, blah, blah, blah.
Why does this bug me?
Because it is part of the suicidal confidence game whereby what is called "diversity" is actually dissolution. The so-called celebration of difference is actually a hatred of difference, real difference. Only the pre-arranged potted plants are allowed to be "different." And it is the people and traditions who have made the West who are expected to dissolve, all in the name of this highminded bullshit.
I am no fan of Rev. Robinson. It seems to me that for a man to accept episcopal ordination knowing that it would split his church in two...well, I guess that's what Protestants do.
And as you know, I think they are all on their way to becoming Unitarians. Which is fine, for Unitarians! They're not making believe about it.
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According to the NYT: In June, the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life published a survey in which 70 percent of Americans said that they believed religions other than theirs could lead to eternal life. In August the results were confirmed.
Christianity in the USA in the 21st Century is "what I think is nice." Sometimes that's for the better, as it allows for nicer things to happen within Christianity than were permitted before. Used to be homosexuals were to be killed, now not so much. That's nice. How far one sails on the Ship of Theseus until one is no longer a Christian... I know the answer, but my opinon counts for little.
- Trevor Blake
I'm a gay Episcopalian. I'm also a Republican. I admired the Episcopal diocese of New Hampshire for electing openly gay Gene Robinson as their bishop. I admired Robinson for accepting his election and putting up with the insane amounts of controversy it caused. However my admiration for Bishop Robinson is limited because he's such a left-wing loony, as bad or worse than Archbishop Rowan Williams.
Kudos to Obama for inviting Robinson to pray at a pre-inaugural prayer event, after the controversy over Obama inviting anti-gay Rev Rick Warren to do his inaugural invocation. Then my opinion of Bishop Robinson sank even lower when I read articles like the ones you linked to. For Christ's sake, he's a bishop in one of the oldest Protestant denominations. But he's so politically correct and anti-Christian that he objects to "aggressively Christian" inaugural prayers. That all by itself should disqualify him from being a priest, much less a bishop. I bet Rick Warren doesn't have any problems with "aggressively Christian" inaugural prayers. Now I'm glad I didn't attend the Jan 12 St Aelred's Day mass at Seattle's St Mark's Cathedral with Robinson as the celebrant.
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