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Pat Robertson: Falls Church Episcopal Church Lost "Blessing of God" Over Gay Bishop

by: lowkell

Wed May 16, 2012 at 14:19:16 PM EDT

Once again, Virginia's in the news for a gay rights issue, this time related to the this:

...in recent years, The Falls Church has become a symbol of a division in the Episcopal Church, a Christian denomination that has given the United States more presidents than any other, and a good share of the country's Anglo-Saxon Protestant elite.
The rupture came after an openly gay man was consecrated as Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire in 2004. The Episcopal Church is part of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and The Falls Church was one of many congregations that broke from the U.S. church by aligning with conservative Anglican provinces in Africa and South America.

So, of course, Virginia's own Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson felt the need to weigh in over a judge's ruling "in favor of the Episcopal Church over a breakaway conservative group that has been holding services in the disputed sanctuary since 2006." Never a dull moment in Virginia these days, I'll tell you. Ugh.

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Pat Robertson: Falls Church Episcopal Church Lost "Blessing of God" Over Gay Bishop | 4 comments

Protestants (0.00 / 0)

Calling each other apostates and heretics for hundreds of years, now. Hey, it's what we do! :)

by: GretchenLaskas @ Wed May 16, 2012 at 18:34:37 PM UTC

It Would Be Better... (0.00 / 0)

It sure would be better if Protestants all decided to read those biblical words in red and follow them, say for instance, "Judge not lest you be judged." (Perhaps my Presbyterian upbringing shouldn't have stressed reading the Bible so much.)

by: Elaine in Roanoke @ Wed May 16, 2012 at 20:36:39 PM UTC

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Would be even better . . . (0.00 / 0)

Would be even better if Protestants read, studied, memorized, and lived the Sermon on the Mount and purged from their Bibles all that crap in Deuteronomy about not eating shellfish, offering your daughter to visitors, and marrying your brother's widow.

by: ir003436 @ Wed May 16, 2012 at 21:28:37 PM UTC

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As someone who was raised Jewish, I agree. (0.00 / 0)

Focus on the New Testament, with its values of forgiveness, turning the other cheek, tolerance, etc., and basically ditch all that stuff in the Old Testament about the sexual mores of that time and place, crazy punishments and "abominations," etc.

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by: lowkell @ Wed May 16, 2012 at 22:13:20 PM UTC

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