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Sodomite injustice is
swift, merciless, and sure.
Report for November 15, 2003
"'What he said was he . .
. would not submit to my authority as bishop. That's a violation of his
ordination vows,' Robinson told the Associated Press."
An Anglican priest who spoke out against the ordination of Gene Robinson
as the bishop of his diocese didn't last long. The new sodomite bishop, in
typical tolerant sodomite style, has stripped the priest of his job. Never
mind that the Anglican Church, in accordance with the Holy Scriptures,
officially condemns sodomy as sin. Never mind that the Anglican Church
officially condemns the ordination of sodomites as priests, let alone
bishops. The priest who submitted to the authority of God's Word regarding
sexual perversion instead of the authority of V. Gene Robinson is history.
Renegade sodomites in virtually all the mainline Protestant denominations
are holding offices from which they are officially banned by their own
churches' laws and officiating over "gay marriages" which are
also unlawful. Yet such individuals are seen as heroes by the
sexual-anarchist church crowd which howls with outrage at the mere thought
of disciplinary action against the renegades. Meanwhile, a minister who
voices opposition to being governed over by a bishop committing
fornication with strange flesh is yesterday's news as soon as he makes his
view known. "Hey, hey, ho, ho, homophobia (and homophobes) has got to
go." And so he did.
Walkout divides N.H. church
Protesters back gay bishop's critic
By Douglas Belkin, Globe Staff
Boston Globe, November 10, 2003
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/314/metro/Walkout_divides_N_H_church+.shtm
ROCHESTER, N.H. - Reverberations from last week's
consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop rattled a small
church in this working-class town early yesterday when more than half of
the congregation stormed out of the sanctuary after a brief tussle in
front of the altar between a priest and two parishioners protesting the
dismissal of their interim minister.
The Rev. Donald R. Wilson, 72, was barred last week from leading services
at the Church of the Redeemer after he spoke out against the choice of the
Rev. V. Gene Robinson as a bishop in the Diocese of New Hampshire. That
dismissal infuriated some parishioners, who charge the church has become a
dictatorship and is driving a permanent wedge into the worldwide
70-million member Anglican community.
Jumping out of their seats moments after the gospel was read, Jacqueline
Ellwood and Ginger Carbaugh walked to the front of the church shortly
after 10 a.m., interrupting the service, and began reading from a
nine-line statement. They insisted they would not accept communion from a
priest who has accepted Robinson's ordination. As they were inviting the
rest of the congregation to walk out with them, the Rev. Canon Marthe
Dyner snatched the paper the message was written on out of Ellwood's hands
while shouting at them to stop interrupting the service.
"I've not been accosted by a priest before," Ellwood said at a
news conference outside the church immediately after they walked out.
"It's a terrible day, a sad day that this could happen."
In the walkout, planned the night before, about 40 parishioners followed
Ellwood and Carbaugh out the door as Dyner, visibly shaken, asked the
remaining 20 congregants to come closer to the altar.
The protest was the latest flashpoint in a deepening ideological rift
between those who support Robinson and those who do not. On Saturday, the
Episcopal Diocese in Pittsburgh, one of the country's most conservative,
passed an amendment aimed at allowing the diocese to ignore some of the
national church's policies. And US conservatives in the church who believe
gay sex violates Scripture have said they want the spiritual head of the
Anglican Communion to authorize a separate Anglican province for them in
North America.
Robinson is now serving as bishop coadjutor in New Hampshire, assisting
the Right Rev. Douglas E. Theuner, bishop of New Hampshire, and is
scheduled to replace Theuner in March.
In Rochester, a small town about 80 miles north of Boston, some
parishioners say that when Wilson spoke out against Robinson's
consecration last week, he became a target of church leaders. In a tersely
worded letter dated Thursday, Theuner accused Wilson of insubordination
and rescinded his license to officiate in the Diocese of New Hampshire,
effectively barring him from leading services at the Church of the
Redeemer.
That punishment set the stage for yesterday's protest. Although Dyner, who
was asked to fill in for Wilson, said she was unaware of the planned
walkout, she opened the service by asking congregants with concerns to
wait until after the service before expressing them.
Standing outside the church yesterday after the group filed out of the
building, organizer Lisa Ball said the protesters had no intention of
leaving the church permanently but were incensed that Theuner had removed
Wilson, and they wanted to let church leaders know their displeasure.
"What's going on here is that this is becoming a dictatorship,"
Ball said. "This has nothing to do with homophobia, and this has
everything to do with them trying to decide for us how and what we will
believe."
Church of the Redeemer, which has about 80 members, recently voted 28-10
to oppose Robinson's selection. Wilson, former rector of St. Paul's Church
in Peabody who was called out of retirement to fill in at the church in
August, was at the church during the service yesterday, parishioners said,
but he did not walk outside and would not comment to assembled media who
had been alerted to the protest.
"Our church is being destroyed by outside forces," said Kathy
Lewis, a protest organizer. "We're here to appeal to Robinson, who
said he wanted to work with us. . . . Give us our priest back."
Speaking after services at All Saints Parish in Peterborough, Robinson
said the disagreement was unfortunate but that Theuner did not remove
Wilson simply because the minister opposed Robinson's election and
consecration.
"What he said was he . . . would not submit to my authority as
bishop. That's a violation of his ordination vows," Robinson told the
Associated Press.
"No one has to agree with the new bishop in order to get diocesan
support," Robinson said, adding that the diocese has put close to
$100,000 into the Redeemer parish over the last few years. "You don't
have to march in lockstep to be in communion."
After the service, Dyner scoffed at the accusation that she had
"accosted" anyone and said she grabbed at the papers held by
Ellwood and Carbaugh because "we cannot allow the service to be
interrupted," she said. "I'm sad, this is a very sad day . . .
it doesn't feel to me that we're holding together as a family in
Christ."
Yesterday, the American Anglican Council, representing conservative
Episcopalians, issued a statement calling on Theuner to rescind his
revocation of Wilson's license and restore his position as priest in
charge of Redeemer.
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