Were New Hampshire's Episcopals desperate to appoint a homosexual bishop? Did the winning candidate's homosexuality outweigh other considerations? It seems the electors may have overlooked at least one serious flaw in choosing V. Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire in 2003. The Bishop now says he is an alcoholic, and has been "for years". (In other words, it wasn't the pressure put on him by "fundamentalists" that drove him to drink.)
Now, I'm not saying that all homosexuals are alcoholics or anything like that, but we should not be surprised that someone who rejects the Bible's statutes in one area of his life does so in another area as well. Neither of these sins is "easy" to mortify, and for that precise reason, if Robinson followed his scripture, he would have eschewed leadership, knowing that those who are in pastoring positions will be held to a higher standard.
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All things equal, are you implying that gay people are more likely to cheat, lie, etc. than straight people?
No, I'm saying two things.
(1) That the committee or whoever voted in Robinson may have given him "bonus points" for being gay.
(2) Someone who rejects a certain code (in this case scripture) as a standard for one area of his life is likely to also reject it in other areas.
The world likes to pretend that an individual's moral choices are uncorrelated. The reality is that there is some correlation. As the Bible says, if you claim to love God (whom you do not see) but do not love your brother whom you see, then you are a liar.
This does not let straight people off the hook: I would deem a straight person who had multiple or serial partners as "worse" than Mr. Robinson, who is apparently monoandrous. Of course, it's not my place to judge one sin "worse" than another, so I don't want to take this idea too far.
Speaking for all gay alcoholics, I found this post terribly offensive. I may just get hammered and have a rally to protest you, Salim. It'll be great!! There'll be banners, and we'll all wear silly costumes...
As long as I don't write a cartoon... in which case you would convert to Islam and burn my house down, right?
chops, on a different note check out Bono's speech at the National Prayer Breakfast...
http://www.data.org/archives/000774.php
Wow, that's really cool!
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