Sunday, June 8, 2008

Eye witness account of Gene Robinson's "wedding" ...

Presented with sadness. GRL3

8 comments:

R. Scott Purdy said...

VGR is in the background on the left from about 40 seconds into the clips until the 2:55 point when he crosses from stage right to stage left (i.e. to the right of the screen.)

The saddest thing is that in five to ten years this will seem totally unremarkable and completely acceptable within whatever survives of E"c"USA at that time. Save for a very few isolated stalwart voices< E"c"USA's then members will wonder why there was ever any controversy about something so obviously "good". Controversy will have moved to the acceptance of activities now deemed morally repugnant in the extreme. Such is the inevitable march of liberalism in morality.

6:25 AM
The Very Rev'd G. Richard Lobs III said...

Scott - you are, alas, absolutely on target. Rick+

10:29 AM
kb9gzg said...

Wrong, Ms. Russell. A sacrament is not, as you put it, "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace." No, a sacrament is "an outward and visible sign of an inward and spiritual grace, given by Christ as sure and certain means by which we receive that grace" (BCP 857). The sacramental rite of Holy Matrimony is "Christian marriage, in which the woman and man [not man and man or woman and woman or the polyamorous]...in which the woman and man enter into a life-long union, make their vows before God and the Church, and receive the grace and blessing of God to help them fulfill their vows" (BCP 861). It is plainly delusional to say that God blesses what he declares to be sin, and The Episcopal Corporation cannot make it otherwise.

10:30 AM
Alice C. Linsley said...

Let us humble ourselves and pray for pure hearts, turning away from those who call evil good and good evil.

11:41 PM
Wayne said...

Dean Lobs, this may be the straw that broke the camel's back. I mourn TEC . Perhaps we will move to the orthodox or Roman church. My heart is broken again.

7:26 AM
Father David Heron said...

The Bishop was wearing the most shocking shoes ever to grace episcopal feet. We in England are outraged

3:58 AM
Alice C. Linsley said...

Susan looks as if she's had a few too many flutes of champagne.

6:45 AM
Steven Barrett said...

It's time to just leave these people, as St. Paul said God leaves them, to their own devices and come home to Rome. I returned and the relief was instantaneous, even though my returning to the Catholic Church had initially jarred my strongly Protestant wife. However, with her growing disenchantment with the increasing amount of what she calls "holy roller" contemporary evangelical type services in our family's local Baptist church, not to mention the other more conservative Protestant churches and non-denominational houses of worship, her options are becoming very limited where we live in the so-called "pioneer valley" of W-Mass. There is a small Traditional Anglican Church parish nearby.

Of course, there's always the Congregationalist churches since she was one before becoming an Episcopalian.

Guess where this leaves a conservative, but traditionalist, worshipping Protestant?

I'd love to say "there's no place like (R)home" but it's best to let the Holy Spirit do what He does best and very quietly and personally.

Many Catholics wonder why more Episcopalians don't just get up and say "enough's enough" and bolt. I remind some of them the Episcopalians are like that woman Willie Nelson and Waylon Jennings sang of in "Good Hearted Woman."

It's hard to leave what you've loved so much for so many years; yet it's harder to put up with as much infidelity as you have as well.

I'm praying for you and wish you all the best as you pass through this awful mess that's been thrown at your footsteps. I know what move I'd make, but I'm fully aware of what this means to you.

Godspeed and Go with Him -- He's never led anyone astray.
Steven

8:38 PM

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