04 September, 2006

Gene Robinson

Gene Robinson, the bishop with faulty chromosome, has been criticising the Orthodox Episcopalians for being extremists at the Anglicans' recent General Convention. He's upset by the moratorium on the consecration of homosexual priests. Still no sign of theological justification for his arguments.

He would be on stronger ground criticising the Orthodox Episcopalians if he called them unprincipled over the election of Bishop Schori. Did they really, as David Virtue wirtes, vote:

....for her to show up how morally and theologically bankrupt the Episcopal Church had become, and wanted to make that point in clear unequivocal terms to Rowan Williams and the Global South bishops.
Seems like a disreputable way to choose a bishop.

Sadly, it seems to be more and more the case that, as Virtue says, "The Episcopal Church is finished, it is dying and no one can now rescue it". If thatis true, the question becomes, what will replace it?

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