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		<title>Change We Cannot Believe in &#8211; Judge Roy Moore lists reasons Christians should beware of new presidency</title>
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WorldNetDaily.com; posted January 21, 2009
By Judge Roy Moore
Barack Obama, who campaigned on &#8220;Change We Can Believe In,&#8221; was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States yesterday, Jan. 20, in the most expensive inauguration in the history of our country. Despite a bleak economy [...]]]></description>
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<p><a href="http://www.wnd.com:80/index.php?pageId=86655">WorldNetDaily.com</a>; posted January 21, 2009</p>
<p>By Judge Roy Moore</p>
<p>Barack Obama, who campaigned on &#8220;Change We Can Believe In,&#8221; was sworn in as the 44th president of the United States yesterday, Jan. 20, in the most expensive inauguration in the history of our country. Despite a bleak economy and a rising unemployment rate, Obama and we the taxpayers are estimated to have spent over $150 million. That is a lot of &#8220;change,&#8221; to be sure.</p>
<p>While many in the country were welcoming the Obamas, the incoming president was busy putting out the welcome mat for the homosexual agenda. At the &#8220;We are One&#8221; gathering at the Lincoln Memorial on the Sunday before the Inauguration, Obama invited Bishop Gene Robinson, the first openly &#8220;gay&#8221; bishop ordained in the Episcopal Church, to give the opening prayer. It seems rather strange that an event to celebrate &#8220;unity&#8221; would begin with prayer by an individual whose homosexual conduct is responsible for one of the deepest divisions in the Episcopal Church in its history, as various dioceses have severed ties with the Episcopal Church to join the more conservative international Anglican community.</p>
<p>But even more shocking is the fact that Bishop Robinson was asked to pray at all. When questioned about the upcoming event by the Associated Press, Robinson assured them that he would &#8220;be careful not to be especially Christian in my prayer,&#8221; and – not surprisingly – that he would not use a Bible. If that is the accepted view of our new president and those attending the event, then we are indeed in for a &#8220;change,&#8221; but one actually contrary to our beliefs and very destructive of our national morality. Historically, there has never been a time when Christianity has been so openly shunned and homosexuality so expressly promoted.</p>
<p><span id="more-2535"></span>Our first president would have been appalled at such &#8220;change.&#8221; George Washington began a long tradition of adding &#8220;so help me God&#8221; to the constitutionally required presidential oath while resting his hand on the Holy Bible. The records of the National Archives show that, after repeating the oath, Washington leaned over and reverently kissed the Bible. Unlike Robinson, Washington was careful to publicly emphasize his faith in God and His Word, not run from it. &#8230;</p>
<p>Obama has not only chosen an open homosexual to open an historic event with prayer, he plans to promote homosexuality in other ways. Obama has proposed expanding federal &#8220;hate crimes&#8221; statutes to include &#8220;sexual orientation,&#8221; supported adoption rights for homosexuals, and opposed a constitutional ban on same-sex &#8220;marriage.&#8221; Obama seems determined to force change that only radical homosexuals can believe in, even in our military.</p>
<p>Every president is not only the chief executive of the federal government, but he is also commander in chief of the Armed Forces. When George Washington led the Army, he recognized the destructive influence of homosexuality in the military. Washington&#8217;s public dismissal of Lt. Enslin from the Army for attempted sodomy comported with a &#8220;longstanding element of military law&#8221; that is still reflected in the current military code, 10 U.S.C. § 654:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>The presence in the armed forces of persons who demonstrate a propensity or intent to engage in homosexual acts would create an unacceptable risk to the high standards of morals, good order and discipline, and unit cohesion that are the essence of military capability.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>But Obama is planning to repeal the &#8220;Don&#8217;t Ask, Don&#8217;t Tell&#8221; policy of the Clinton administration, which although a concession to homosexuals, still recognized the prohibition against homosexuals in the military. Instead, Obama intends to enforce a policy of &#8220;non-discrimination&#8221; in favor of those who practice homosexuality.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for Obama, the majority of those who now serve in the military disagree with his pro-homosexual policy. According to a 2007 Military Times poll, 59 percent of active-duty military personnel said that they did not think that those who openly professed homosexuality should be allowed to serve in the military. The Center for Military Readiness in 2008 claimed that Obama&#8217;s change in policy would force heterosexual and homosexual soldiers to cohabitate around the clock in conditions of little or no privacy, causing &#8220;unprecedented harm to discipline, morale, recruiting and readiness.&#8221;</p>
<p align="right">Click <a href="http://www.wnd.com:80/index.php?pageId=86655">HERE for the full article by Judge Moore in WorldNetDaily.com </a></p>
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		<title>Obama Belittles Bible, Gives Unrepentant &#8216;Gay Bishop&#8217; Prayer Platform: Barber</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:25:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Appropriately, Robinson says he will not use Bible at Sunday event
 Homosexual Episcopal Bishop V. (Vicki) Gene Robinson addressing the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a radical pro-homosexual, -transsexual, -bisexual, -sadomasochism organization. To watch the five-part YouTube video of Robinson&#8217;s speech at the Task Force, click HERE. Click on photo to enlarge.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<h4><font color="#ff0000"><em><strong>Appropriately, Robinson says he will not use Bible at Sunday event</strong></em></font></h4>
<p><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/01/v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg" title="v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg"><img src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/01/v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg" alt="v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg" align="left" width="233" height="157" hspace="10" /></a> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>Homosexual Episcopal Bishop V. (Vicki) Gene Robinson addressing the <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/consensual-slavery-advocate-accepts-task-force-leather-award.html">National Gay and Lesbian Task Force</a>, a radical pro-homosexual, -transsexual, -bisexual, -sadomasochism organization. To watch the five-part YouTube video of Robinson&#8217;s speech at the Task Force, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoizRVeJC6U&amp;feature=related">click HERE</a>. </strong><font color="#ff0000"><em>Click on photo to enlarge.</em></font></font></p>
<p>The following is a statement by Matt Barber of Liberty Counsel. Note: Barber is a Board Member of <a href="http://www.aftah.org">Americans for Truth about Homosexuality</a>.</p>
<p>Contact Barber at <a href="mailto:jmattbarber@comcast.net">jmattbarber@comcast.net</a>.</p>
<p>DATE: January 14, 2009; FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p>LYNCHBURG, Virginia – Matt Barber, Director of Cultural Affairs with both Liberty Alliance Action and <a href="http://www.lc.org">Liberty Counsel</a>, released the following statement today in response to news that Barack Obama has invited openly homosexual Episcopal Bishop V. Gene Robinson to deliver the invocation at an inaugural event on Sunday:</p>
<p>“It’s a shame that President-elect Obama apparently has so little regard for his Christian constituents that he would give such a high place of honor to a self-styled man of God whose only claim to fame is that he abandoned his wife and children to enter, ‘loudly and proudly,’ a sexually deviant lifestyle expressly condemned by the very Bible he’s ironically called ‘holy and sacred.’</p>
<p><span id="more-2497"></span>“None of us are without sin; and certainly none are less valuable in God’s eyes than any other.  But Christ did command us to repent of our sins and to ‘go and sin no more.’  Not only has Robinson refused to repent of his homosexual behavior, which is unequivocally condemned throughout both the Old and New Testaments as sexual sin, he has further rebelled against God by leading astray countless of his flock who suffer from similar temptation.</p>
<p>“A fancy white robe and tall priestly hat does not a man of God make,” continued Barber.  “Robinson may or may not be a believer as he claims; only he and God know that for sure.  But what we do know is this: based upon his frequent association with homosexual anti-Christian hate groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and in light of his ongoing counter-Christian sexual crusade, Gene Robinson is little more than a radical homosexual activist in a clergyman’s clothing.  In fact, his heretical rebellion against God’s express natural order, coupled with his selfish refusal to surrender his pulpit, has almost single handedly devastated the U.S. Episcopal Church,” said Barber.</p>
<p>Robinson has indicated he will not use the Bible at the event, saying, “While that is a holy and sacred text to me, it is not for many Americans.  I will be careful not to be especially Christian in my prayer.”  Barber responded, “Unfortunately, Robinson is not especially Christian in much of what he does. After that comment, I wonder if he heard a rooster crow.”</p>
<p>While addressing his aberrant sexual appetite for men, Robinson said, &#8220;I believe in my heart that the church got it wrong about homosexuality.”  Answered Barber, “That’s why Christ admonishes us to place His word above that which we feel in our hearts.  As Scripture warns: ‘The heart is deceitful above all things.’”</p>
<p>“As Gene Robinson prays for Barack Obama on Sunday, I would encourage all Bible believing Christians to pray for Gene Robinson.  Pray for the wife and children he left for a lie.  Pray that he will repent, ‘go and sin no more,’ bringing others with him to the salvation only Christ can offer.  A salvation we all – our nation and our world – so desperately need.”</p>
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		<title>AFTAH: Obama’s Choice of Homosexual Bishop (Vicki) Gene Robinson to Pray at Inaugural Event Is a Slap in the Face to Christians</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 16:30:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson &#8212; who was given the female name &#8220;Vicki&#8221; at birth &#8212; speaking at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force&#8217;s &#8220;Creating Change&#8221; conference last year in Detroit. [Watch the speech on YouTube HERE.] By giving an Inaugural prayer to a homosexual activist who claims the Bible is &#8220;holy&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/01/v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg" title="v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg"><img src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2009/01/v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg" alt="v_gene_robinson_homosexual_task_force.jpg" align="left" width="271" height="183" hspace="10" /></a> <font color="#0000ff"><strong>New Hampshire Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson &#8212; who was given the female name &#8220;Vicki&#8221; at birth &#8212; speaking at the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force&#8217;s &#8220;Creating Change&#8221; conference last year in Detroit. [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoizRVeJC6U&amp;feature=related">Watch the speech on YouTube HERE.</a>] By <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090112/ap_on_re_us/gay_bishop_obama">giving an Inaugural prayer</a> to a homosexual activist who claims the Bible is &#8220;holy&#8221; while he brazenly flouts its teachings, President-elect Barack Obama is himself undermining Christian faith and morals. Traditionally, men of God preached against sin, but Robinson is busy celebrating sin or redefining it: at this same conference in which Robinson praised the Task Force, the homosexual group gave out its annual <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/consensual-slavery-advocate-accepts-task-force-leather-award.html">&#8220;Leather Leadership Award&#8221;</a> praising a sadomasochism advocate of consensual &#8220;slavery.&#8221; </strong><em><font color="#ff0000">Click on photo to enlarge.</font></em></font></p>
<p>Americans For Truth Press Release</p>
<p>January 13, 2009</p>
<p>Contact: Peter LaBarbera: 630-717-7631; <a href="mailto:americansfortruth@comcast.net">americansfortruth@comcast.net</a></p>
<p><strong>AFTAH: Obama’s Choice of Homosexual Bishop (Vicki) Gene Robinson to Pray at Inaugural Event Is a Slap in the Face to Christians </strong></p>
<p>NAPERVILLE, Ill. – Peter LaBarbera, President of Americans For Truth about Homosexuality (AFTAH), issued the following statement regarding President-elect Barack Obama’s selection of V. (Vicki) Gene Robinson, the openly homosexual Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, to deliver the invocation at <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090112/ap_on_re_us/gay_bishop_obama">an official inaugural event Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>“President-elect Obama has signaled a tragic departure from America’s godly, Judeo-Christian heritage with his choice of a defiant homosexual activist, (Vicki) Gene Robinson, to recite a prayer at an <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090112/ap_on_re_us/gay_bishop_obama">official Inaugural event Sunday</a>. Choosing Robinson &#8212; who supports homosexual ‘marriage’ and compares his agenda to mainstream sinful and changeable homosexual behavior to the noble Black civil rights struggle &#8212; is a sop to ‘gay’ activists who blasted Obama’s for picking evangelical pastor Rick Warren to say an Inauguration Day prayer.</p>
<p><span id="more-2495"></span>“By choosing Robinson, who left his wife and family to embrace homosexuality – and who claims to revere the Bible as ‘holy and sacred’ while defying its clear teachings on sex and marriage – Barack Obama has given his first indication of how he could use the bully pulpit to undermine biblical values. (Obama promised homosexual activists that he would work to repeal the federal Defense of Marriage Act, which prevents states from being forced to recognize out-of-state same-sex ‘marriages.’ He pledged that as President he would advocate for homosexual adoption, and has distorted the Bible to justify his support for homosexual relationships.)</p>
<p>“Bishop Robinson is a radical sexual activist masquerading as a man of God. He is an affront to faithful Christians and religious defenders of morality everywhere, and needs to repent and turn away from homosexuality. His selfish defense of sin literally has helped destroy and divide a denomination. Robinson – who was given the female name ‘Vicki’ at birth because his parents were hoping for a girl &#8212; has become a ‘gay’ celebrity: last year he gave a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoizRVeJC6U&amp;feature=related">keynote speech praising the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force</a>, a far-Left, anti-Christian organization that annually honors sadomasochists with its ‘<a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/consensual-slavery-advocate-accepts-task-force-leather-award.html">Leather Leadership Award</a>.’</p>
<p>“Robinson personifies the prophet <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=isaiah%205:20&amp;version=31">Isaiah’s admonition to Israel (Is. 5:20)</a>: “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil.” Christians and traditionalists – especially those who helped elect Obama – should urge him not to use his bully pulpit to undermine marriage and the biblical morals that helped build this blessed nation.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Good News: Maine &#8216;Queer&#8217; Boys&#8217; Workshop Canceled</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8216;Boys to Men&#8217; Director Gregory Cites &#8216;Lack of Interest&#8217; for Homosexual Youth Class
Note in this story by the Christian Civic League of Maine yet another connection between the United Church of Christ (UCC) and perversion. The UCC has an appalling left-wing record (check THIS out) &#8212; including its 2006 merger with a Dallas mega-church, the [...]]]></description>
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<p>Note in this story by the <a href="http://www.cclmaine.org">Christian Civic League of Maine</a> yet another connection between the <strong>United Church of Christ (UCC)</strong> and perversion. The <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/ucc-pastor-calls-devotion-to-traditional-family-idolatry.html">UCC has an appalling left-wing record</a> (check <a href="http://www.ucctruths.com/terrorist.html">THIS</a> out) &#8212; including its 2006 merger with a Dallas mega-church, the <a href="http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=175485">Cathedral of Hope</a>, which caters to homosexuals. (We hear that the UCC is still searching for a partnering church that cater to swingers&#8230;.) So why doesn&#8217;t  the UCC just go all the way and start offering its very own <strong>&#8220;How to Be Homosexual&#8221; workshops</strong> for youth?</p>
<p>For the sake of accuracy, we also recommend a name-change to <strong>UCS: United Church of Sodom</strong>. Enough with this phony &#8220;Christ&#8221; talk. We envision a host of liberal Protestant mergers under the UCS banner beginning with <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/news/bishop-vicky-gene-robinson-wants-to-be-a-june-bride.html"><strong>proud homosexualist bishop (Vicky) Gene Robinson</strong></a> and his wayward Episcopal Church. In fact, Robinson could be the annual keynote speaker at the <em>How to Be Homosexual</em> workshops.</p>
<p><span id="more-1950"></span>Congrats to the <a href="http://www.cclmaine.org">Christian Civic League of Maine</a> and <strong>Mike Hein</strong> for their great work in exposing this anti-Christian &#8220;workshop.&#8221; &#8212; <em>Peter LaBarbera</em></p>
<p>PS. For a great website countering the UCC&#8217;s liberal-left baloney, go to <a href="http://ucctruths.blogspot.com/">http://ucctruths.blogspot.com/</a>. Yes, there are UCC attenders who are still faithful to the Bible as God&#8217;s revealed truth.</p>
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<h3><strong>Maine &#8216;Queer&#8217; Boys&#8217; Workshop Canceled</strong></h3>
<p>by Mike Hein, <a href="www.cclmaine.org/artman/publish/Maine_3/Homo_Boy_Workshop_Canceled.shtml">Christian Civic League of Maine</a></p>
<p>May 14, 2008</p>
<p>Maine&#8217;s Boys to Men organization unceremoniously canceled their 2008 conference&#8217;s <strong>&#8220;Queer, Questioning, Quiet: Developing Gender Identity &amp; Male Sexual Orientation&#8221;</strong> workshop on May 13.  The group&#8217;s Executive Director, Layne Gregory, cited &#8220;lack of interest&#8221; and participation from the boys attending the conference as the reason for the boys&#8217; homosexual workshop cancellation.</p>
<p><!--more--><strong>Bill Gregory</strong>, a retired <strong>United Church of Christ</strong> minister and member of the group&#8217;s Board of Directors, initially speculated that the cancellation was initiated by the workshop&#8217;s homosexual youth leaders, the <strong>Proud Rainbow Youth of Southern Maine (PRYSM)</strong>.  &#8220;Almost always, when we have a workshop cancellation, it&#8217;s due to the presenters not being able to attend [the conference],&#8221; said Mr. Gregory.</p>
<p>&#8220;[The boys' homosexual workshop] was canceled due to lack of interest, lack of participation,&#8221; said Boys to Men Executive Director Layne Gregory later.  She noted that the Christian Civic League of Maine&#8217;s reporter &#8220;was one of the only ones&#8221; to register for the &#8220;Queer&#8221; boys&#8217; workshop.  Not discouraged by the cancellation, she went on to say, &#8220;We feel it is important to offer this kind of thing each year at our conference.&#8221;</p>
<p>Boys to Men Americorps VISTA Program Intern Meghann McCluskey added more detail to the cancellation explanation stating that there was only one other person besides the League Record reporter who expressed an interest in attending the boys&#8217; homosexual workshop, despite the hundreds of pre-schoolboys who attended the annual conference.</p>
<p>McCluskey acknowledged that the Boys to Men organization did know about the national publicity that surrounded the boys&#8217; homosexual workshop, primarily through the League Record&#8217;s &#8220;Transgender Teaching on Tap for Maine Boys&#8221; article and WorldNetDaily.com &#8220;Class for Kids: How to be Homosexual&#8221; article.  She said the group was not aware of the more recent &#8220;Homo-Grown Heroes&#8221; commentary by Olivia St. John, also published on WorldNetDaily.</p>
<p>A listing of the Boys to Men Conference 2008 morning workshops can be seen at<br />
www.cclmaine.org/PDF_Files/BoysToMenConference2008MorningSession.pdf.</p>
<p>While the &#8220;Queer, Questioning, Quiet&#8221; homosexual boys&#8217; workshop did not take place, other workshops were held at the conference, including one led by Planned Parenthood of Northern New England representatives.  The &#8220;Real Life. Real Talk. Sex in the Movies&#8221; morning workshop attracted fifty young boys.</p>
<p>Led by Lauren Grousd, a PPNNE Project Coordinator, and Jason Barriault, a senior at Cheverus High School and PPNNE Teen Council member, the workshop encouraged the pre-teen boys to &#8220;take some risks&#8221; regarding sex and to &#8220;respect differences of oppinion [sic].&#8221;  Handouts at the PPNNE-led workshop asked parents to &#8220;Host a Sex Ed House Party&#8221; where &#8220;[Parents] invite your friends over, and [Planned Parenthood] supplies teen sexuality info and facilitates the discussion.&#8221;</p>
<p>A copy of the handout can be seen at www.cclmaine.org/PDF_Files/BoysToMenConference2008PPNNEevents.pdf.</p>
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		<title>Bishop Vicky Gene Robinson Wants to Be a &#8216;June Bride&#8217;</title>
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Homosexual Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson&#8217;s parents wanted a girl, so they named him &#8220;Vicky.&#8221;
By Peter LaBarbera
I find much to object to in blogger Peter Kirk&#8217;s homosexuality-related posts, but he offers some good thoughts regarding Episcopal Bishop (Vicky) Gene Robinson&#8217;s gender confusion, which, understandably, began at a young age. Kirk wonders why Robinson wants to be [...]]]></description>
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<p><font color="#0000ff"><strong>Homosexual Episcopal Bishop Gene Robinson&#8217;s parents wanted a girl, so they named him &#8220;Vicky.&#8221;</strong></font></p>
<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p>I find much to object to in blogger <a href="http://www.qaya.org/blog/?p=245">Peter Kirk&#8217;s homosexuality-related posts</a>, but he offers some good thoughts regarding <strong>Episcopal Bishop (Vicky) Gene Robinson&#8217;s</strong> gender confusion, which, understandably, began at a young age. Kirk wonders why Robinson <a href="http://www.qaya.org/blog/?p=331">wants to be a &#8220;June bride</a>&#8221; (rather than a groom) next month as he infamously and shamelessly plans to &#8220;wed&#8221; another man.</p>
<p><span id="more-1951"></span>That Robinson, as the poster boy for decadent, Western &#8220;queer christianity&#8221; (small c),  is doing great damage to the faith as a &#8220;change agent&#8221; against God&#8217;s revealed program for sexuality, is obvious. But surely <strong>&#8220;Vicky Imogene Robinson&#8217;s&#8221;</strong> parents, who wanted a girl, hence the female name, share in the blame, as they did quite a number on him. Kirk writes:</p>
<blockquote><p>But hold on, isn’t there something wrong here? A man who has always wanted to a bride? Was he not thinking when he used the word “bride”, or perhaps joking? Does “always” go back to the time when he was a bridegroom? Perhaps he has always suffered from gender confusion. After all, if this <a href="http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1175952007">rather sensationalist article</a> can be trusted (see also the full text of <a href="http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2007/07/cofe-would-shut.html">the interview</a> this article was based on):</p>
<blockquote><p>Born in 1947 in the Bible Belt in Lexington, Kentucky, he was not expected to survive the delivery, so his sharecropper parents were asked to give names for both the birth and death certificates. Expecting a girl, they opted for Vicky Imogene. He has never changed it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Given this confusion about his birth and his upbringing with a girl’s name, no wonder that</p>
<blockquote><p>By the age of 11, he was sensing that his sexual urges were different from those of his schoolmates.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now I know this is not a popular thing to say, but it seems rather likely that this man at least grew up to be gay because of serious psychological damage in childhood. To be fair to him, he did try therapy, and marriage, but his gay tendencies eventually got the upper hand.</p>
<p>The question here, as I see it, is whether the church should be promoting psychologically damaged people like this into high positions. Of course I have to accept that no one is perfect, and that sometimes people who have been through traumatic times are equipped to minister to others suffering similarly, in ways in which those whose life has always been easy are not so suitable. But I would expect those promoted to being bishops, like Gene Robinson, at least to demonstrate that their psychological hurts have been fully healed&#8230;.</p></blockquote>
<p align="right">Click <a href="http://www.qaya.org/blog/?p=331">HERE to read Kirk&#8217;s entire post, &#8220;Gene Robinson to Be a &#8216;June Bride,&#8217;</a> and responding comments</p>
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		<title>C-SPAN Airs Speech by Homosexual Bishop Vicky Gene Robinson &#8212; on Christmas Eve</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[ C-SPAN helped homosexual Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire Vicky Gene Robinson &#8212; he was named such because his parents wanted a girl &#8212; plead his heretical case to America by airing his speech twice on Christmas Eve night. In the speech, Robinson discussed his plan to enter into a &#8220;civil union&#8221; with his homosexual lover, saying [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img id="image1709" style="height: 246px" height="246" alt="bishop_vicky_gene_robinson_cspan.jpg" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2008/01/bishop_vicky_gene_robinson_cspan.jpg" width="384" /> <strong><em>C-SPAN helped homosexual Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire Vicky Gene Robinson &#8212; he was named such because his parents wanted a girl &#8212; plead his heretical case to America by </em></strong><a href="http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=212065233010"><strong><em>airing his speech twice on Christmas Eve night</em></strong></a><strong><em>. In the speech, Robinson discussed his plan to enter into a &#8220;civil union&#8221; with his homosexual lover, saying he </em></strong><a href="http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&#038;sc=local&#038;sc2=&#038;sc3=&#038;id=53211"><strong><em>always wanted to be a &#8220;June bride.&#8221;</em></strong></a><strong><em> The bishop claimed (against all evidence in Scripture) that the Holy Spirit is involved in the crusade for more open homosexuals like him in the clergy. Write C-SPAN CEO Brian Lamb </em></strong>(<a href="mailto:viewer@c-span.org">viewer@c-span.org</a>) <strong><em>or call him (202-737-3220) to protest this holiday programming choice that was deeply offensive to Bible-believing Christians. Urge C-SPAN to balance Robinson&#8217;s lecture by covering a presentation by evangelical Dr. Michael Brown in Charlotte, North Carolina next month titled, <a href="http://www.coalitionofconscience.org/index.shtm">&#8220;Can you be gay and Christian?&#8221;</a>  Photo by C-SPAN.</em></strong></p>
<p>By Peter LaBarbera</p>
<p><strong>TAKE ACTION:</strong> Write (<a href="mailto:viewer@c-span.org">viewer@c-span.org</a>) or call <a href="http://www.c-span.org/about/contact.asp?code=About">C-SPAN</a> (202-737-3220) CEO <strong>Brian Lamb</strong> today or tomorrow to object to their airing of a speech by a controversial homosexual-clergy activist and Episcopal Bishop of New Hampshire, Vicky Gene Robinson, <a href="http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/fullschedule.csp?timeid=212065233010"><em>twice </em>on Christmas Eve</a>.  Politely urge C-SPAN to compensate for this offensive, pro-homosexual coverage by sending their cameras to cover evangelical apologist <strong>Dr. Michael Brown</strong> and his upcoming conference, &#8221;Can you be gay and Christian?&#8221; to be held Feb. 11-15 in Charlotte, N.C. </p>
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<p>I&#8217;m wondering why C-SPAN chose to re-air a long speech by homosexual activist and <strong>Episcopal Bishop Vicky Gene Robinson</strong> on Christmas Eve, one of the most sacred days on the Christian calendar. In his <a href="http://inside.c-spanarchives.org:8080/cspan/cspan.csp?command=dprogram&#038;record=559354925">speech Nov. 27 at Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale</a>, &#8220;How Morality Plays a Role in Legal Rights, Especially for the Gay Community,&#8221; which had already been aired on Dec. 8, Robinson claimed that the Holy Spirit was involved in the crusade for homosexual &#8220;inclusion&#8221; in the clergy.</p>
<p><strong>First things first:</strong> did you know that the infamously &#8221;gay&#8221; bishop&#8217;s first name is &#8220;Vicky&#8221; (as you can see above, C-SPAN only put &#8220;Gene Robinson&#8221; on the screen). Apparently his parents really wanted a girl and &#8212; when they doubted their sickly newborn would even live &#8212; they named him accordingly: <strong>Vicky Imogene</strong> (middle name after the mother) Robinson. In 2003, the <a href="http://www.deimel.org/church_resources/monitor_profile.htm">Concord Monitor reported</a> matter-of-factly (as only the agnostic media can) on the birth of the baby who would become Episcopal &#8220;Rev. V. Gene Robinson&#8221; as follows:</p>
<blockquote><p>Robinson was born in Lexington, Ky., in 1947, in a delivery that went so wrong the doctor told his father he needed a name for the baby&#8217;s birth and death certificates. Charles and Imogene Robinson had counted on a girl, so Robinson&#8217;s father named the baby Vicky Imogene Robinson.</p></blockquote>
<p>Now, common sense dictates that if you do not want your boy to struggle with masculinity or gender issues, perhaps it is not a good idea to name him &#8220;Vicky,&#8221; or Susan, or Linda. In this BBC video interview, Robinson calls his father&#8217;s decision to give him a girl&#8217;s name <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNAIlPmFNAA&#038;feature=related">&#8220;a terrible thing to do to a boy child.&#8221;</a> </p>
<p>Indeed, but it gets worse.</p>
<p><span id="more-1710"></span>When the baby did live, Robinson&#8217;s parents <strong>never changed his name and his birth certificate</strong>. How strange and cruel is that? The liberal-biased <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Robinson">Wikipedia reports</a>, relying on the book, <em>Going to Heaven: The Life and Election of Bishop Gene Robinson</em> (emphasis added):</p>
<blockquote><p>For a long time, Robinson&#8217;s parents believed the boy would die soon. Much later in life, Robinson&#8217;s <strong>father would tell him he couldn&#8217;t take any joy in the boy&#8217;s development because he always thought each step was going to be the last thing</strong>. Robinson&#8217;s parents were and still are members of a small Disciples of Christ congregation. Robinson describes his childhood as very religious. Robinson had perfect Sunday School attendance for thirteen years. </p></blockquote>
<p>The struggling little boy named Vicky, whose parents diligently brought him to church but never saw the need to give him a name to match his sex? <a href="http://www.genderpac.org">GenderPAC</a>, America&#8217;s leading gender-confusion lobby, would be proud.</p>
<p>One wonders what this poor, confused child went through thanks to his parent&#8217;s heartless act (note that even as an adult, he never dispensed with the &#8220;V,&#8221; for Vicky, another oddity). And contrast Robinson&#8217;s father&#8217;s lack of joy with the stories of parents of children with terminal diseases who rejoice at <em>each new day that their child is alive</em>.</p>
<p>I bring this up &#8211; with the caveat that I have not read anything except the above on Robinson&#8217;s upbringing &#8212; to remind readers of a cold reality: <strong>parents can do a number on their kids, and stories of dysfunctional upbringings in the lives of homosexuals are about as hard to find as corn in Iowa</strong>. This is a pitiable yet crucial part of the debate on homosexual development that the media downplays in favor of sexy &#8220;gay gene&#8221; stories or gay-victim pieces focusing on society&#8217;s &#8220;homophobia.&#8221;</p>
<p>Whether it&#8217;s a boy who grew up perceiving rejection from his emotionally distant father, or who had no father; a girl who experienced abuse or rape; or early sexualization or molestation in the young life of one who subsequently becomes a &#8220;gay&#8221; adult &#8211; there is ample evidence that confusion, abuse, alienation and/or neglect have an important role in the formation of &#8220;gay&#8221; identity.</p>
<p>So now comes along Vicky Gene Robinson, who attributes his work, and no doubt his <em>choice </em>to embrace sinful sexual behavior, to the work of the the Holy Spirit.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>This is not from Holy Spirit, but the outworking of fallen humanity.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>I can only imagine how difficult this man&#8217;s life has been, but that can never justify his joining the dark side (abusing his pastoral authority to teach sin as a social good to others). In his defining, media-hyped crusade, Robinson personifies <strong>the most evil aspect of the &#8220;gay&#8221; movement: the crusade to re-write Christianity itself</strong> to accommodate their besetting sin.</p>
<p><strong>A June Bride?</strong></p>
<p>Although I was curious, I wasn&#8217;t about to watch Robinson&#8217;s homosexual nonsense on C-SPAN on Christmas Eve &#8212; not that my wife would have let me anyway &#8211; but I&#8217;m sure glad I didn&#8217;t after reading an account of it below. No wonder the Episcopal Church has become a laughingstock among genuine believers (and moral non-believers), to the dismay of those faithful Christians still in that denomination.</p>
<p>The following is excerpted from the <a href="http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&#038;sc=local&#038;sc2=&#038;sc3=&#038;id=53211">U. of Miami News Service</a> article on the C-SPAN-televised speech (emphasis added):   </p>
<blockquote><p>The nation’s first openly gay Episcopal bishop told a crowd of about 200 that come June he’s marching down the aisle with his <strong>longtime male partner Mark Andrew</strong>.</p>
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<p><strong>&#8220;I always wanted to be a June bride,&#8221;</strong> said Bishop Gene Robinson at a talk on Nov. 27 at Nova Southeastern University.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>&#8220;It may take many years for religious institutions to add their blessing for same-sex marriages and no church, mosque or synagogue should be forced to do so. But that should not slow down progress for the <strong>full civil right to marry</strong>,&#8221; Robinson said. &#8220;Because New Hampshire will have legal unions beginning in January, my partner of 20 years and I will enter into such a legal union next June.&#8221; &#8230;</p>
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<p>&#8220;The greatest single hindrance to achievement of full rights for gays and lesbians can be laid at the doorstep of the three Abrahamic faiths&#8211; Judaism, Christianity and Islam. <strong>It’s going to take people of faith to end discrimination</strong>,&#8221; said Robinson, who was invested as the ninth bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire in 2004. &#8230;</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Robinson, a divorced father of two adult daughters, emphasized that scripture must viewed in its historical context. Citing specific verses in Leviticus calling male homosexual acts an abomination, Robinson noted that that same holiness code says eating pork is an abomination and that children cursing their parents is punishable with death. He said that <strong>the concept of sexual orientation didn’t emerge until about a century ago</strong>. &#8230;</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Robinson also tried to link what he sees as oppression of human rights of homosexuals to discrimination against woman, blacks and others.</p>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>&#8220;I believe the Holy Spirit leads us into deeper truth about equality, dignity and truth about every human being. The Holy Spirit is unrelenting, keeps leading and guiding us to the full inclusion of all God’s children.&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>A man named Vicky who wants to be a &#8220;June bride.&#8221; Hmmm. </p>
<p>God may work in mysterious ways, but He does not contradict His holy nature. Robinson&#8217;s shoddy &#8220;gay theology&#8221; does not hold up to serious scrutiny (see <a href="http://www.robgagnon.net/">www.robgagnon.net</a> for the website of Prof. Rob Gagnon, author of <em>The Bible and Homosexual Practice</em>; or listen <a href="http://www.queerchannelradio.com/cc-common/podcast.html">HERE</a> &#8211; scroll down to Dec. 2 program &#8211; to Dr. Michael Brown&#8217;s interview discussing the Leviticus Holiness Code that Robinson distorts). Of course, that won&#8217;t stop him; he long ago left the pursuit of Truth in favor of being an agent for revisionist propaganda.</p>
<p>There are few things more tragic in these Culture Wars than seeing men of the cloth being used as tools for the enthusiastic promotion of evil. Vicky Gene Robinson is one of them. By bringing God and the Holy Spirit into his perversion, he brazenly claims that God&#8217;s holiness is at work in the progression of sin &#8212; an impossibility.</p>
<p>And he helps leads countless of God&#8217;s little ones astray. Will future generations of public school children be taught that Robinson is a &#8220;civil rights hero&#8221; during <strong>&#8220;Gay and Lesbian History Month</strong>&#8220;?</p>
<p>So let&#8217;s review: either Almighty God &#8212; Creator of the atom, the mountains and the oceans, and man and woman &#8212; is really confused; or could it be that a guy raised as Vicky Gene &#8212; looking to become the &#8220;June bride&#8221; of his homosexual lover &#8212; is the confused one?</p>
<p><strong>TAKE ACTION:</strong>  <strong>1)</strong> C-SPAN is a wonderful source of public policy information. But they did wrong to bring Robinson&#8217;s anti-Biblical, pro-sodomy message to America, twice, on a day when countless millions of Americans were celebrating the earthly birth of their sinless Savior, Jesus Christ. Write (<a href="mailto:viewer@c-span.org">viewer@c-span.org</a>) or call <a href="http://www.c-span.org/about/contact.asp?code=About">C-SPAN</a> (202-737-3220) CEO <strong>Brian Lamb</strong> today or tomorrow about their insensitivity to tradition Christians.  Urge them to cover <strong>Dr. Michael Brown&#8217;s lecture series, &#8220;Can you be gay and Christian?&#8221;</strong> in Charlotte, N.C., which will be held February 11-15. (Click <a href="http://www.coalitionofconscience.org/index.shtm">HERE</a> or <a href="http://www.icnministries.org/">HERE</a> for more information on Brown&#8217;s presentations and ministry.)</p>
<p><strong>2)</strong> Pray for &#8220;V. Gene Robinson,&#8221; who needs a real encounter with the Lord leading to repentance. Meanwhile, do what you can to resist his and his allies&#8217; subversion of the Bible and their campaign to re-write Christianity to accommodate perversion.</p>
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&#8220;But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God&#8217;s holy people.&#8221; &#8212; Ephesians 5:3
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<p align="center"><strong><font color="#800080">&#8220;But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God&#8217;s holy people.&#8221;</font></strong> &#8212; <a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=56&#038;chapter=5&#038;verse=2&#038;end_verse=4&#038;version=31&#038;context=context">Ephesians 5:3</a></p>
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		<title>&#8216;Gay&#8217; Anglican Priest Rev. Jeffrey John&#8217;s Apostasy is Complete; Denies Atonement of Christ</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Apr 2007 15:08:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Look who&#8217;s &#8221;coming out the closet&#8221; now? Liberals who despise the essential doctrines of Christianity? No surprise that homosexual clergy (an oxymoron in a true Bible-believing church) are leading the war against the Christian Gospel. &#8211;PL
BUDAPEST, Hungary, Apr. 2 /Christian Newswire/ &#8212; According to a recent World Net Daily article, Pastor: Idea Christ Died for Sins Insane, [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>Look who&#8217;s &#8221;coming out the closet&#8221; now? Liberals who despise the essential doctrines of Christianity? No surprise that homosexual clergy (an oxymoron in a true Bible-believing church) are leading the war against the Christian Gospel. &#8211;PL</em></p>
<p>BUDAPEST, Hungary, Apr. 2 /Christian Newswire/ &#8212; According to a recent <a href="http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54974">World Net Daily article</a>, Pastor: Idea Christ Died for Sins Insane, homosexual priest, the <strong>Rev. Jeffrey John</strong> is planning to speak on BBC radio regarding his disdain for the view that Christ died for the sins of the world. Reverend John, who was denied a position of Bishop in 2003 because of his long term homosexual relationship is planning to state his views during Easter week in which that &#8220;leading gay cleric will tell listeners to BBC Radio 4 that Christianity&#8217;s traditional teaching on Christ&#8217;s crucifixion for the sins of mankind is &#8216;repulsive,&#8217; &#8216;insane&#8217; and makes &#8216;God sound like a psychopath.&#8217;&#8221;</p>
<p>Phil Magnan of <a href="http://www.bfamilyadvocates.com/">Biblical Family Advocates</a> responds to Reverend John&#8217;s statements saying, &#8220;The words of the Reverend remind me of the warnings of 2 Peter 2:1-2, which says, &#8216;But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will also be false teachers among you, who will secretly introduce destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them,&#8230; Many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of the truth will be maligned;&#8217; Sad to say, the Reverend is following the usual pattern of those who refuse to accept God&#8217;s Word for its clear teachings regarding homosexuality and end up even denying the saving work of Christ.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;These false and ungodly teachers twist the scriptures to their own destruction and according to the book of Jude &#8220;turn the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ into licentiousness&#8221; even ending up denying Christ Himself. You cannot have Christ without His atoning work. Without that atoning work we cannot presume to be in right standing before God. Without question, Jesus Christ condemned all unlawful sexual relationships in Matthew 15:19, which according to the Law of God that He wrote, included homosexuality.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Biblical Family Advocates</strong> is very concerned about Rev. Jeffery John&#8217;s statements that will lead many into sin and false teachings. The website of Biblical Family Advocates offers teachings as to <a href="http://www.bfamilyadvocates.com/homosexuality.htm">&#8220;Why Same Sex Relationships Are Wrong and Hurt Society.&#8221;</a> It addresses many of the false arguments that the pro homosexual religious community attempts to use to lead many astray and shows how the Bible is clear on the matter of homosexuality.<br />
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		<title>At Axis of Episcopal Split, a Nigerian</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from At Axis of Episcopal Split, an Anti-Gay Nigerian, by Lydia Polgreen and Laurie Goodstein, published Dec 25, 2006, by The New York Times (free registration required):
&#8230;Archbishop Akinola, a man whose international reputation has largely been built on his tough stance against homosexuality, has become the spiritual head of 21 conservative churches in the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/africa/25episcopal.html?ex=1169701200&#038;en=34e9bfcd5831bddb&#038;ei=5070"><em>At Axis of Episcopal Split, an Anti-Gay Nigerian</em></a>, by Lydia Polgreen and Laurie Goodstein, published Dec 25, 2006, by <em>The New York Times</em> (free registration required):</p>
<p><img align="left" alt="nigeria-akinola.jpg" id="image882" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2007/01/nigeria-akinola.jpg" />&#8230;Archbishop Akinola, a man whose international reputation has largely been built on his tough stance against homosexuality, has become the spiritual head of 21 conservative churches in the United States. They opted to leave the Episcopal Church over its decision to consecrate an openly gay bishop and allow churches to bless same-sex unions. Among the eight Virginia churches to announce they had joined the archbishop’s fold last week are The Falls Church and Truro Church, two large, historic and wealthy parishes.</p>
<p>In a move attacked by some church leaders as a violation of geographical boundaries, Archbishop Akinola has created an offshoot of his Nigerian church in North America for the discontented Americans. In doing so, he has made himself the kingpin of a remarkable alliance between theological conservatives in North America and the developing world that could tip the power to conservatives in the Anglican Communion, a 77-million member confederation of national churches that trace their roots to the Church of England and the Archbishop of Canterbury.</p>
<p>&#8230;The 62-year-old son of an illiterate widow, Archbishop Akinola now heads not only Nigeria — the most populous province, or region, in the Anglican Communion, with at least 17 million members — but also the organizations representing the leaders of Anglican provinces in Africa and the developing world. <strong>He has also become the most visible advocate for a literal interpretation of Scripture,</strong> challenging the traditional Anglican approach of embracing diverse theological viewpoints.</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>“Why didn’t God make a lion to be a man’s companion?” Archbishop Akinola said at his office here in Abuja. “Why didn’t he make a tree to be a man’s companion? Or better still, why didn’t he make another man to be man’s companion? So even from the creation story, you can see that the mind of God, God’s intention, is for man and woman to be together.”</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Archbishop Akinola’s views on homosexuality — that <strong>it is an abomination akin to bestiality and pedophilia</strong> — are fairly mainstream here&#8230;</p>
<p>Other conservative American churches that have split from the Episcopal Church, the American branch of the Anglican Communion, have aligned themselves with other archbishops, in Rwanda, Uganda and several provinces in Latin America — often because they already had ties to these provinces through mission work&#8230;</p>
<p>&#8230;One of Archbishop Akinola’s principal arguments, often heard from other conservatives as well, is that Christianity in Nigeria, a country where religious violence has killed tens of thousands in the past decade, must guard its flank lest Islam overtake it. <strong>“The church is in the midst of Islam,” he said. “Should the church in this country begin to teach that it is appropriate, that it is right to have same sex unions and all that, the church will simply die.”</strong></p>
<p>He supports a bill in Nigeria’s legislature that would make homosexual sex and any public expression of homosexual identity a crime punishable by five years in prison&#8230;</p>
<p>Archbishop Akinola said he supported any law that limited marriage to heterosexuals, but declined to say whether he supported the specific provisions criminalizing gay associations. <strong>“No bishop in this church will go out and say, ‘This man is gay, put him in jail,’ ” the archbishop said.</strong> But, he added, Nigeria has the right to pass such a law if it reflects the country’s values.</p>
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		<title>Homosexual Lutheran Pastor Charged</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jan 2007 15:54:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Swank says it well:
&#8230;The divine revelation is eternal ethic and thereby will not condone homosexual practice. Those running counter to this revelation will answer to God’s wrath in this life and at death at the Judgment Seat of Christ. 
TAKE ACTION &#8211; You may send a note of support to Ron Warren, who rightfully [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Mr. Swank says it well:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>&#8230;The divine revelation is eternal ethic and thereby will not condone homosexual practice. Those running counter to this revelation will answer to God’s wrath in this life and at death at the Judgment Seat of Christ. </strong></p></blockquote>
<p><strong>TAKE ACTION &#8211;</strong> You may <a href="mailto:synod.office@elca-ses.org">send a note of support to Ron Warren</a>, who rightfully recommends removing Bradley Schmeling from his position of authority.</p>
<p align="center">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;</p>
<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/22152.html"><em>Homosexual Lutheran Pastor Charged</em></a>, by Grant Swank, published Jan 20, 2007, by The Conservative Voice:</p>
<p>The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America concluded at its 2005 conclave that sex was to be practiced within marriage. Also, such sex was not open to homosexual lifestyles. All this is because the Bible ethic is against sex outside of marriage and prohibits homosexual activities.</p>
<p>Bradley Schmeling, pastor, St. John’s ECLA, Atlanta, makes known that he is homosexual and now has a partner. The congregation agrees that he should continue as minister. In fact, the parishioners had a party celebrating his formal announcement of partnership with a &#8220;lifelong companion.&#8221;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.elca-ses.org/Pastoral%20Letters/a_pastoral_letter_of_disclosure.htm">Bishop Ronald Warren, Southeastern Synod, told Schmeling to resign</a>. Schmeling said he would not resign. &#8220;Disciplinary proceedings against him for violating church rules barring sex outside of marriage&#8221; have begun. That means <a href="http://www.stjohnsatlanta.org/trialupdate.html">Schmeling confronts a hearing</a> composed of a dozen ELCA members deciding his fate&#8230;</p>
<p>If the committee concludes him to be defrocked, he would no longer be &#8220;recognized as an ordained minister in the ELCA,&#8221; per AP. If the congregation still calls him their spiritual leader, the church then could be disciplined&#8230;</p>
<blockquote><p><strong>Throughout the divine revelation right and wrong are set forth by God Himself. Consequently, for those espousing homosexual lifestyles as divinely blessed is to expose their biblical ignorance and theological liberalism, the latter basically given to writing one’s own religion.</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Other denominations dealing with this matter include the Presbyterian Church, United Methodist Church, American Baptist Convention and segments within the Mennonite framework. Denominations which accept homosexuality as ethically legitimate include the Unitarian Society, United Church of Christ (Congregational), and the Episcopal Church of America.</p>
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		<title>Jack Danforth Joins RUC Advisory Board</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the website of Republican Unity Coalition, June 10, 2006:
Jack Danforth Joins RUC Advisory Board
Senator John C. Danforth has joined the Advisory Board of the Republican Unity Coalition, it was announced today by RUC co-chairs Charles Francis and Donald Capoccia. Senator Danforth will advise the RUC on its continuing efforts to support Republican candidates who [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the website of <a href="http://www.republicanunity.com/news.htm">Republican Unity Coalition</a>, June 10, 2006:</p>
<p><strong>Jack Danforth Joins RUC Advisory Board</strong></p>
<p><img align="right" id="image826" alt="john-danforth.jpg" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2007/01/john-danforth.jpg" />Senator John C. Danforth has joined the Advisory Board of the Republican Unity Coalition, it was announced today by RUC co-chairs Charles Francis and Donald Capoccia. Senator Danforth will advise the RUC on its continuing efforts to support Republican candidates who reach out to all Americans, including gay and lesbian Republicans.</p>
<p>Charles Francis, RUC co-chair, said: &#8220;We are honored to have Jack Danforth join the RUC &#8212; <strong>a gay/straight Republican alliance </strong>&#8212; dedicated to strengthening a &#8220;Big Tent&#8221; for all Republicans. Jack Danforth&#8217;s life is his message: a life-long Republican conservative and dedicated public servant, an <a href="http://americansfortruth.com/issues/the-bible-churches-glbtq/d-glbtq-pressure-within-churches/anglicanepiscopal/">Episcopal</a> Priest, the man who officiated at President Reagan&#8217;s memorial service &#8212; he is a living hero to Republicans who want the GOP to steer to a principled center. We are so proud to have him standing with us.</p>
<p>&#8220;Joining with other RUC Advisory Board members including President Gerald R. Ford, David Rockefeller and Honorary Board Chairman Alan K. Simpson, Jack Danforth will help the RUC reach out to GOP conservatives and libertarians whose bedrock principles include everyone,&#8221; Francis said.</p>
<p>Senator John Danforth is a partner with the international law firm Bryan Cave LLP in St. Louis. He retired from the United States Senate in 1995 after eighteen years of service. More recently, he served as United States Ambassador to the United Nations, after serving as President George W. Bush&#8217;s Special Envoy to Sudan in 2001. Ordained to the clergy of the Episcopal Church, Reverend Danforth officiated at the memorial service of President Ronald Reagan.</p>
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		<title>Gerald Ford&#8217;s Views on Homosexuality</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2007 04:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from Gay Admirer Thanks President Ford, by Deb Price, published Jan 2, 2006, by Detroit News:
&#8230;Pleasantly surprised by how comfortable Ford was talking about gay issues &#8212; not a trait I&#8217;ve found in many politicians &#8212; I asked whether the federal government ought to treat gay couples the same as married heterosexuals.
&#8220;I think they [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070102/OPINION03/701020402/1272"><em>Gay Admirer Thanks President Ford</em></a>, by Deb Price, published Jan 2, 2006, by <em>Detroit News</em>:</p>
<p><img width="157" height="192" align="right" id="image823" alt="gerald-ford.jpg" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2007/01/gerald-ford.jpg" />&#8230;Pleasantly surprised by how comfortable Ford was talking about gay issues &#8212; not a trait I&#8217;ve found in many politicians &#8212; I asked whether the federal government ought to treat gay couples the same as married heterosexuals.</p>
<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think they ought to be treated equally. Period,&#8221; Ford replied.</p></blockquote>
<p><span class="storytext">Trying to get a better sense of what he meant, I pressed on, asking whether he believed gay couples should receive the same Social Security, tax and other federal benefits?</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span class="storytext">&#8220;I don&#8217;t see why they shouldn&#8217;t. I think that&#8217;s a proper goal,&#8221; Ford replied.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span class="storytext">He also told me that he supported a federal law to outlaw anti-gay job discrimination:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span class="storytext">&#8220;That is a step in the right direction. I have a longstanding record in favor of legislation to do away with discrimination,&#8221; he said.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span class="storytext">Amazed at finding myself chatting with the former president, I told him that my first vote ever was for him and he shared with me that he and his wife had gay friends.</span></p>
<p>Ford also said that he wanted gay Americans to be part of his party.</p>
<blockquote><p><span class="storytext">&#8220;I have always believed in an inclusive policy, in welcoming gays and others into the party. I think the party has to have an umbrella philosophy if it expects to win elections,&#8221; he said.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span class="storytext">Not long after my column about our interview was published, <strong>the gay-friendly <a href="http://www.republicanunity.com/background.html">Republican Unity Coalition</a> contacted Ford, and <a href="http://www.republicanunity.com/fjruc.htm">he agreed to join its advisory board, lending his name to its cause</a>.</strong></span></p>
<p>&#8230;Even in death, Ford, who was an <strong><a href="http://americansfortruth.com/issues/the-bible-churches-glbtq/d-glbtq-pressure-within-churches/anglicanepiscopal/">Episcopalian</a></strong>, spread the message that gay people deserve to be treated with respect and dignity.</p>
<p>The Rev. Robert Certain, the priest at Ford&#8217;s Palm Desert, Calif., church, pointed out in his homily that when he and Ford had discussed plans for his funeral this past summer, the former president brought up his concern about the growing rift in the denomination over allowing gays and women to take leadership roles: &#8220;He said he did not think (such inclusive steps) should be divisive for anyone who lived by the Great Commandments and the Great Commission &#8212; to love God and to love neighbor.&#8221;</p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070102/OPINION03/701020402/1272"><strong>Continue reading on Detroit News&#8230; </strong></a></p>
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		<title>Sexual Immorality Not the Only Episcopal Problem</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2006 04:56:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Press release from The Institute on Religion and Democracy, published Dec 18, 2006:
Yesterday&#8217;s announcements of the departure of (so far) eight churches from the Diocese of Virginia reveal a seismic shift within The Episcopal Church. This is particularly true since the churches together have a combined average Sunday attendance greater than many Episcopal dioceses.
IRD Anglican [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.ird-renew.org/site/apps/nl/content2.asp?c=fvKVLfMVIsG&#038;b=390529&#038;ct=3307857">Press release</a> from The Institute on Religion and Democracy, published Dec 18, 2006:</p>
<p>Yesterday&#8217;s announcements of the departure of (so far) eight churches from the Diocese of Virginia reveal a seismic shift within The Episcopal Church. This is particularly true since the churches together have a combined average Sunday attendance greater than many Episcopal dioceses.</p>
<p>IRD Anglican Action Director, Ralph Webb commented:</p>
<p>It is sad, but not surprising, that The Episcopal Church&#8217;s own self-inflicted wound continues to cause the denomination to bleed. The Episcopal Church was warned by many heads of Anglican Communion provinces not to proceed with the consecration of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire. These leaders said that it would tear the very fabric of the worldwide Anglican Communion. Tragically, this has proven true. The departure of the Virginia parishes is only one of many negative effects caused by The Episcopal Church&#8217;s actions.</p>
<p>While Gene Robinson&#8217;s consecration heightened the issues within The Episcopal Church, it is in no way the main issue for the churches that are leaving. It provides one example of how The Episcopal Church has drifted away from its Scriptural foundations, but only one. Beyond wanting to be faithful to Scripture, the churches felt that their mission work was impaired by remaining within The Episcopal Church. Perhaps most importantly of all, they felt that they could not be faithful Anglicans while remaining in The Episcopal Church.</p>
<p>We at the IRD support the faithful Anglicans in the Diocese of Virginia who have now left The Episcopal Church. We recognize that their decisions were made soberly and only after much prayer and deliberation. They face a new day before them, a day full of many challenges but also many opportunities.</p>
<p>We also recognize that, in responding to God&#8217;s call, some faithful Anglicans will remain within The Episcopal Church. Their call is no less one from God, and we support them in their mission of renewing the denomination.</p>
<p dir="ltr">The Episcopal Church now needs to ask itself some tough questions. If this many churches leave a diocese regarded as moderate like Virginia, what will happen in other dioceses that are progressive in their theology and social witness?</p>
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		<title>Episcopalians Reach Point of Revolt over Homosexuality</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, said in an e-mail response to a request for an interview that such splits reflect a polarized society, as well as the “anxiety” and “discomfort” that many people feel when they are asked to live with diversity. “The quick fix embraced in drawing lines or [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<blockquote><p>The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church, Katharine Jefferts Schori, said in an e-mail response to a request for an interview that such splits reflect a polarized society<strong>, as well as the “anxiety” and “discomfort” that many people feel when they are asked to live with diversity.</strong> “The quick fix embraced in drawing lines or in departing is not going to be an ultimate solution for our discomfort,” she said.</p></blockquote>
<p><em>How ridiculous &#8212; and deceptive &#8212; it is that Ms. Schori characterizes the attitude of Episcopalians who are outraged at the denomination&#8217;s embrace of homosexuality as being uncomfortable with &#8220;diversity.&#8221; After all, we are talking about at least 10 percent of her congregants from the state of Virginia (home of the capital of the Confederate States during the Civil War and birthplace to General Robert E. Lee) refusing her leadership, and instead <strong>freely placing themselves under submission to a Black African leader.</strong> We are talking about other American Episcopal congregations considering affiliation under the spiritual leadership of bishops from Rwanda and Bolivia. </em></p>
<p><em>No, it is not resistance to &#8220;diversity&#8221; that evokes Episcopalian anxiety. It is Ms. Schori&#8217;s false teaching, her determination to embrace and approve of homosexuality, that they find intolerable. And well they should. &#8212; Sonja Dalton</em></p>
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<p>From <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/us/17episcopal.html?hp&#038;ex=1166418000&#038;en=0849e2dc5db0755e&#038;ei=5094&#038;partner=homepage"><em>Episcopalians Reach Point of Revolt</em></a>, by Laurie Goodstein, published Dec 17, 2006, by <em>The New York Times</em>:</p>
<p>For about 30 years, the Episcopal Church has been one big unhappy family. Under one roof there were female bishops and male bishops who would not ordain women. There were parishes that celebrated gay weddings and parishes that denounced them; theologians sure that Jesus was the only route to salvation, and theologians who disagreed.</p>
<p>Now, after years of threats, the family is breaking up.</p>
<p>As many as eight conservative Episcopal churches in Virginia are expected to announce today that their parishioners have voted to cut their ties with the Episcopal Church. Two are large, historic congregations that minister to the Washington elite and occupy real estate worth a combined $27 million, which could result in a legal battle over who keeps the property.</p>
<p><strong>In a twist, these wealthy American congregations are essentially putting themselves up for adoption by Anglican archbishops in poorer dioceses in Africa, Asia and Latin America who share conservative theological views about homosexuality and the interpretation of Scripture with the breakaway Americans.</strong></p>
<p>“The Episcopalian ship is in trouble,” said the Rev. John Yates, rector of The Falls Church, one of the two large Virginia congregations, where George Washington served on the vestry. “So we’re climbing over the rails down to various little lifeboats. <strong>There’s a lifeboat from Bolivia, one from Rwanda, another from Nigeria.</strong> Their desire is to help us build a new ship in North America, and design it and get it sailing.”</p>
<p>&#8230;The archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Rowan Williams, is now struggling to hold the communion together while facing a revolt on many fronts from emboldened conservatives. Last week, conservative priests in the Church of England warned him that they would depart if he did not allow them to sidestep liberal bishops and report instead to sympathetic conservatives.</p>
<p><strong><img align="left" alt="nigeria-akinola.jpg" id="image882" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2007/01/nigeria-akinola.jpg" />In Virginia, the two large churches are voting on whether they want to report to the powerful archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, an outspoken opponent of homosexuality</strong> who supports legislation in his country that would make it illegal for ["gay"] men and lesbians to form organizations, read gay literature or eat together in a restaurant. Archbishop Akinola presides over the largest province in the 77-million-member Anglican Communion; it has more than 17 million members, dwarfing the Episcopal Church, with 2.3 million.</p>
<p>If all eight Virginia churches vote to separate, the Diocese of Virginia, the largest Episcopal diocese in the country, will lose about 10 percent of its 90,000 members. In addition, four churches in Virginia have already voted to secede, and two more are expected to vote soon, said Patrick N. Getlein, secretary of the diocese.</p>
<p>Two weeks ago, the entire diocese in San Joaquin, Calif., voted to sever its ties with the Episcopal Church, a decision it would have to confirm in a second vote next year. Six or more American dioceses say they are considering such a move.</p>
<p>In the last three years, since the Episcopal Church consecrated <a title="More articles about V. Gene Robinson." href="http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/r/v_gene_robinson/index.html?inline=nyt-per">V. Gene Robinson</a>, a gay man who lives with his partner, as bishop of New Hampshire, about <strong>three dozen American churches have voted to secede and affiliate with provinces overseas,</strong> according to The Episcopal News Service&#8230;</p>
<p>At one of the four Virginia parishes that has already voted to secede, All Saints Church in Dale City, the tally was <strong>402 to 6</strong>.</p>
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		<title>Christianity is Counting the Cost and Not Sweating the Small Stuff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Nov 2006 23:24:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Christianity is Counting the Cost and Not Sweating the Small Stuff,  by Jan LaRue, published Nov 16, 2006, by Concerned Women for America:
&#8220;Episcopal leaders vote to leave,&#8221; reads the caption today announcing that &#8220;two of Virginia&#8217;s most historic Episcopal parishes have voted to split from the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia.&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://www.cwfa.org/articles/11869/LEGAL/family/index.htm"><em><span class="pagetitle">Christianity is Counting the Cost and Not Sweating the Small Stuff</span></em></a>,  by Jan LaRue, published Nov 16, 2006, by Concerned Women for America:</p>
<p><img width="123" height="114" align="right" alt="jan-larue.JPG" id="image426" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2006/10/jan-larue.JPG" />&#8220;Episcopal leaders vote to leave,&#8221; reads the caption today announcing that &#8220;two of Virginia&#8217;s most historic Episcopal parishes have voted to split from the Episcopal Church and the Diocese of Virginia.&#8221; It&#8217;s a move that will likely lead to litigation and could cost the congregants of Truro Church in Fairfax (est. 1732) and The Falls Church (est. 1752) millions of dollars in prime real estate. George Washington was a member of the vestry of both churches. [Julia Duin, <em>Washington Times</em>, Nov. 16, 2006, p. 1].</p>
<p>When the Episcopal Church consecrated Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire, an exclamation point was added at the end of the handwriting that had been on the Church wall for many years. Robinson is an open homosexual who left his wife and children for a man.</p>
<p>By the way, if they had consecrated as bishop an unrepentant heterosexual adulterer or unmarried fornicator, the sin would be just as grievous. Sin brings equal opportunity condemnation.</p>
<p><strong>Christianity is all about choices, costs and consequences.</strong> The congregants of Truro and The Falls Church reportedly told their leaders that <strong>&#8220;the theological disconnect between Biblical Christianity and the road the [Episcopal] Church had chosen to walk was so profound, the time had come to separate from the denomination.&#8221;</strong></p>
<p>One of the countless characteristics that makes Jesus unique as the greatest leader of all time is that although He came to save all mankind from the condemnation of sin, He never stayed where He wasn&#8217;t wanted, and He never kept anyone from leaving. His words had a thinning effect on crowds. <strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;For many are called but few are chosen.&#8221;</font></strong> (Matthew 22:14)</p>
<p>In fact, He said that when someone leaves Him, it&#8217;s proof that the person isn&#8217;t one of His. <strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us; but they went out that they might be made manifest, that none of them were of us.&#8221;</font></strong> (I John 2:19)</p>
<p>Shaking off the dust of an unfriendly town and dodging stones came with Christ&#8217;s calling. <strong>But He never compromised. Everything He did was consistent with everything He said. He leaves no space between following Him and obeying Him.</strong></p>
<p><strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; Who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; Who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!&#8221;</font></strong> (Isaiah 5:20) Christ suffered the agony of the Cross because of His intolerance of sin and love of sinners. We can&#8217;t bless and make holy that which God has condemned as sinful.</p>
<p><span id="more-620"></span>Christ offended people quite often, especially the self-righteous. Sometimes, it made His disciples nervous:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition? … &#8216;These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.&#8217; </font></strong></p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;The disciples responded, &#8216;Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?&#8217; But He answered and said, &#8216;Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.&#8217;&#8221;</font></strong> (Matthew 15:3, 12-13)</p></blockquote>
<p>The kindest, most-loving man who ever lived was crucified because He is <strong>in</strong>tolerant of sin.</p>
<p>Consequently, you won&#8217;t be turning blue before unbelievers hurl their intolerance stones at the faithful who&#8217;ve departed the Episcopal Church. The disciples of diversity don&#8217;t distinguish between the narrow gate and a narrow mind or hatred of sin vs. hatred of people.</p>
<p>As G.K. Chesterton wrote, &#8220;These are the days when the Christian is expected to praise every creed except his own.&#8221;</p>
<p>The world demands that we stand for nothing and fall for everything. But we can&#8217;t because the embodiment of truth planted a Cross on Calvary.</p>
<p><strong>There we stand.  Hate us if you will.  </strong>We&#8217;ve been warned and we&#8217;re over it:</p>
<blockquote><p>He said <strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;If the world hates you, you know that it hated Me before it hated you. If you were of the world, the world would love its own. Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. Remember the word that I said to you, &#8216;A servant is not greater than his master.&#8217; If they persecuted Me, they will also persecute you. If they kept My word, they will keep yours also.&#8221;</font></strong> (John 15:18-20)</p></blockquote>
<p>We are neither the first, nor will we be the last to count the cost. It&#8217;s in the counting that we remember that He paid the price we couldn&#8217;t pay to give us what we don&#8217;t deserve:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;Then Peter answered and said to Him, &#8216;See, we have left all and followed You. Therefore what shall we have?&#8217; So Jesus said to them, &#8216;Assuredly I say to you, that in the regeneration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you who have followed Me will also sit on twelve thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel. And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name&#8217;s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life. But many who are first will be last, and the last first.&#8217;&#8221;</font></strong> (Matthew 19: 28-30)</p></blockquote>
<p>We are to love God more than anyone or anything else, including denominational brethren and valuable real estate. No space. It&#8217;s the narrow way, but it&#8217;s well-marked and lighted. And best of all, it leads home.</p>
<p>To know Jesus is to love Him, and to love Him is to obey Him:</p>
<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;Jesus answered and said to him, &#8216;If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him. He who does not love Me does not keep My words; and the word which you hear is not Mine but the Father&#8217;s who sent Me.&#8217;&#8221;</font></strong> (John 14:23-24)</p></blockquote>
<p>When God makes His home in your heart, buildings couldn&#8217;t count less. The faithful brethren at Truro and The Falls Church get it. Besides, who stays when Jesus has left the building?</p>
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		<title>Run, Don&#8217;t Walk, from ECUSA&#8217;s Incoming Leader: Homosexuality Not a Choice</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Nov 2006 21:19:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from ECUSA&#8217;s Incoming Leader: Homosexuality Not a Choice, Jesus Not the Only Way, by Jody Brown and Allie Martin, published Nov 2, 2006, by Agape Press:
Where does [Katharine Jefferts-Schori] stand on the issue of homosexuality? The Episcopal Church has been embroiled for years in a debate over the ordination of homosexual clergy and &#8220;blessing&#8221; [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/22006a.asp"><em>ECUSA&#8217;s Incoming Leader: Homosexuality Not a Choice, Jesus Not the Only Way</em></a>, by Jody Brown and Allie Martin, published Nov 2, 2006, by Agape Press:</p>
<p><strong><font color="#3366cc">Where does [Katharine Jefferts-Schori] stand on the issue of homosexuality?</font></strong> The Episcopal Church has been embroiled for years in a debate over the ordination of homosexual clergy and &#8220;blessing&#8221; ceremonies for same-sex couples. <strong>Jefferts-Schori supports both</strong> &#8212; and in fact, <strong><font color="#3366cc">she voted in 2003 to confirm her denomination&#8217;s first openly homosexual bishop, V. Gene Robinson.</font></strong> She told <em>AP</em> that <strong><font color="#3366cc">she does not believe the Bible condemns &#8220;committed&#8221; homosexual relationships.</font></strong>  God, she says, made some people &#8220;gay.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>&#8220;Sexual orientation is pretty clearly defined at a very early age, before the age of reason. It&#8217;s not a choice,&#8221;</strong> she said. &#8220;In that case, a person of faith would need to say that <strong>it&#8217;s a piece of how one is created.&#8221; </strong>Consequently, she says, the Church should offer what she calls &#8220;a sacramental container&#8221; to help homosexuals find &#8220;holy ways of living in relationship.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Scriptures in the Bible about homosexual acts being sinful, she says, are misunderstood.</strong> &#8220;They&#8217;re not about what today we see as mature human beings entering into committed relationships with each other on a full and equal basis,&#8221; says Jefferts-Schori, <strong>who believes such &#8220;committed&#8221; relationships can be blessed.</strong> &#8220;The religious community&#8217;s job, really, is to help all human beings find healthy and whole and holy ways of living in relationship.&#8221;</p>
<p><strong>Run, Don&#8217;t Walk</strong><br />
Canon David Anderson is president of the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.americananglican.org/">American Anglican Council</a>, a group of conservative clergy and lay people from the Episcopal Church. Anderson says he&#8217;s not surprised at the recent comments by Jefferts-Schori, and offers what he sees as the only option for those still in churches aligned with ECUSA.</p>
<p><strong><font color="#990099">&#8220;I think they need to run, not walk, to the exit and find an orthodox Episcopal church,&#8221;</font></strong> suggests Anderson.</p>
<p>According to Anderson, <strong><font color="#3366cc">the Episcopal Church cast off biblical beliefs long ago in favor of postmodernism.</font></strong> Jefferts-Schori&#8217;s comments, he claims, is merely in harmony with that. <strong>&#8220;Her remarks with regard to the plurality of ways to God are consistent both with what she has said before and with what the top level of leadership in the Episcopal Church has been saying now for probably a decade,&#8221;</strong> says Anderson.</p>
<p align="right"><a href="http://headlines.agapepress.org/archive/11/22006a.asp"><strong>Continue reading at Agape Press&#8230; </strong></a></p>
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		<title>Prince Charles Praises Openly Homosexual Anglican Priest</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Oct 2006 05:52:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From Prince Charles Praises Openly Gay Anglican Priest, by Terry Vanderheyden, published Oct 11, 2006, by LifeSite News:
Prince Charles, the future head of the Church of England, has sparked controversy by endorsing an openly homosexual Anglican clergyman.
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From <a href="http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/oct/06101108.html"><em>Prince Charles Praises Openly Gay Anglican Priest</em></a>, by Terry Vanderheyden, published Oct 11, 2006, by LifeSite News:</p>
<p>Prince Charles, the future head of the Church of England, has sparked controversy by endorsing an openly homosexual Anglican clergyman.</p>
<p>Harry Williams, the former dean of Cambridge University who died earlier this year, was praised by the Prince in the forward to a new book of poems being published. The Prince of Wales wrote that Williams’ <strong>“proved to be a star; a man of intense humanity and warmth whose humour and originality created an aura of approachability,”</strong> according to a UPI report.</p>
<p><strong>Williams’ 1982 autobiography meanwhile, titled “Some Day I’ll Find You,” describes the pastor’s experiences as a practicing homosexual while at Cambridge. </strong></p>
<blockquote><p><strong><font color="#ff6600"><font size="3">“I slept with several men, in each case fairly regularly,” he wrote, adding that “I have seldom felt more like thanking God then (sic) when having sex.”</font></font></strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Dr. R. Albert Mohler, Jr., president of The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary – the flagship school of the Southern Baptist Convention – wrote about Prince Charles that</p>
<blockquote><p>“In just over 50 years, Prince Charles has managed to make himself a mockery of marriage and morality and to pose, as one leading British newspaper observed, as ‘a well-intentioned eccentric seeking divine inspiration.’”</p></blockquote>
<p>Mohler added:</p>
<blockquote><p>“There is indeed much to learn by observing the example of Prince Charles. He has become a living portrait of what happens when Christianity is separated from its central truth claims, and when faith becomes a matter of emotional aspiration rather than firm belief in the truth.”</p></blockquote>
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		<title>Virginia Congregation Withdraws from Pro-Homosexuality US Episcopals, Joins Pro-Truth Ugandan Anglicans</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Oct 2006 22:00:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the church&#8217;s press release:
The members of Christ Our Lord Episcopal Church, a thriving congregation of about 200 faithful Christians in this suburb of Washington, DC, have voted to dissolve the church and to conclude its existence as part of the Diocese of Virginia of The Episcopal Church of the U.S. The members of the [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>From the church&#8217;s <a href="http://www.christourlordchurch.org/">press release</a>:</p>
<blockquote><p><img align="right" alt="colbanner.gif" id="image446" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2006/10/colbanner.gif" />The members of <strong>Christ Our Lord Episcopal Church</strong>, a thriving congregation of about 200 faithful Christians in this suburb of Washington, DC, have voted to dissolve the church and to conclude its existence as part of the Diocese of Virginia of The Episcopal Church of the U.S. The members of the congregation have reconstituted themselves as <a href="http://www.christourlordchurch.org/index1.html"><strong>a new Anglican church, named Christ Our Lord Church</strong></a> and affiliated with the Anglican Province of Uganda.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p>The eligible voting members of Christ Our Lord Episcopal Church voted Sunday, October 15 <strong>by a 95 percent margin</strong> to dissolve the church and to terminate its relationship with The Episcopal Church in the US and the Episcopal Diocese of Virginia. The congregation also voted to relinquish to the Diocese the church property on Omisol Road in Woodbridge because it was titled in the name of the Diocese. At that meeting, the Rev. George Beaven, the vicar of the church, submitted his resignation and announced that he would retire from The Episcopal Church&#8230;</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong> &#8220;Our experience is that the Episcopal Church has become an unhealthy environment for orthodox Christians&#8230;&#8221;</strong> Mr. Beaven said.</p></blockquote>
<blockquote><p><strong> &#8220;Events in The Episcopal Church that have shown profound disrespect for Scripture and Biblical teachings&#8230;&#8221;</strong></p></blockquote>
<p>Excerpted from <a href="http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=9740"><em>N. Va. Episcopal Church to Pull Out of Diocese Over Gay Issues</em></a>, published Oct 25, 2006, in the pro-homosexuality <em>Washington Blade</em>:</p>
<p>The 200-member Christ Our Lord Church is the third northern Virginia Episcopal church to withdraw from the diocese and affiliate with the Anglican Province of Uganda.</p>
<p>It joins other conservative congregations upset with denomination leadership&#8230;</p>
<p><a href="http://www.southridingchurch.org/Resources_NewsDissafilliate.aspx">South Riding Church</a> in Loudoun County left the diocese in November. <a href="http://www.holyspiritanglican.org/Resources_2006-02-06_PressRelease.aspx">The Church of the Holy Spirit</a>, also in Loudoun County, left in February.</p>
<p>Two other northern Virginia Episcopal churches will soon decide whether to leave the denomination.</p>
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		<title>Episcopal Bishop in Connecticut Approves Homosexual Couple Blessings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2006 21:28:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We agree with Christopher Leighton, rector at             St. Paul&#8217;s Church in       Darien, who called Smith a             &#8221;perpetrator of false teaching&#8221; and said his   [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><em>We agree with <span class="body_text">Christopher Leighton, rector at             St. Paul&#8217;s Church in       Darien, who called Smith a             &#8221;perpetrator of false teaching&#8221; and said his             decision defies &#8221;Scripture and worldwide Christianity.&#8221;</span></em></p>
<p>Excerpted from <span class="story_headline"><a href="http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid37827.asp"><em>Episcopal Bishop in Connecticut OK&#8217;s Same-sex Blessings</em></a>, published Oct 24, 2006, in the pro-homosexuality newspaper <em>The Advocate</em>:</span></p>
<p><span class="body_text"><img width="121" height="156" align="left" alt="asmith.jpg" id="image432" src="http://americansfortruth.com/uploads/2006/10/asmith.jpg" />       Episcopal             parishes in Connecticut may bless same-sex couples, the             state&#8217;s       bishop announced over the weekend in Hartford.             <a href="http://www.ctdiocese.org/bishops/smith.shtml">Bishop Andrew Smith</a>&#8217;s       decision does not create an             official prayer service for the blessings and       does not             allow Episcopal clergy to officiate at civil unions. But it             allows parishes to acknowledge gay and lesbian couples who             have had a       civil union granted by the state.</span></p>
<p>&#8221;What I have permitted is a pastoral ministry             of blessing, which does       not mimic a wedding             ceremony,&#8221; Smith said Saturday after the diocese&#8217;s             two-day annual convention ended.</p>
<p>&#8230;At the heart of the matter is whether the church             will &#8221;bless persons who       are homosexual and partnered             as cherished and fully accepted members of       the body of             Christ,&#8221; Smith told the convention.</p>
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		<title>How Britain is Turning Christianity into a Crime</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2006 01:52:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sonja Dalton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from How Britain is Turning Christianity into a Crime, by Melanie Phillips, published Sept 7, 2006, in The Daily Mail (UK):
&#8230;The problem for Christianity is that it holds that homosexuality is wrong. This, however, it is no longer allowed to say because it treats a minority practice as sinful. So it can no longer [...]]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Excerpted from <em><a href="http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=447">How Britain is Turning Christianity into a Crime</a></em>, by Melanie Phillips, published Sept 7, 2006, in <em>The Daily Mail</em> (UK):</p>
<p>&#8230;<strong>The problem for Christianity is that it holds that <font color="#009966">homosexuality is wrong.</font></strong> This, however, it is no longer allowed to say because it treats a minority practice as sinful. So it can no longer uphold a central tenet of its own faith without being accused of prejudice.</p>
<p>&#8230;Author Lynette Burrows received a warning from the Metropolitan Police merely for suggesting that gay people did not make ideal adoptive parents. The former leader of the Muslim Council of Britain, Sir Iqbal Sacranie, also had his collar felt by police after he said that homosexuality was harmful.Notably, in his case the matter was swiftly dropped. If there’s one thing that terrifies our PC police even more than being called homophobic, it’s being called Islamophobic — even though Islamic fundamentalism poses a <em>real</em> threat to the human rights of gay people.</p>
<p>If this wasn’t all so frightening, it would be hilarious.</p>
<p>Christians, by contrast, get very different treatment. An elderly evangelical preacher, Harry Hammond, was convicted of a public order offence after he held up a poster calling for an end to homosexuality, lesbianism and immorality. Although <strong>he had been the <em>victim</em> of a physical attack</strong> when a crowd poured soil and water over him, <strong>he alone was prosecuted.</strong></p>
<p>And Lancashire pensioners Joe and Helen Roberts were interrogated by police for 80 minutes about their ‘ homophobic’ views after they had merely asked their local council to display Christian literature alongside gay rights leaflets in civic buildings.</p>
<p>Christianity is fast becoming the creed that dare not speak its name&#8230;</p>
<p><font color="#009966"><strong>The ‘diversity’ agenda, in other words, is a fig-leaf for an attack on Christianity&#8230;</strong></font></p>
<p><font color="#009966"><strong>This attack on Christianity&#8230;is not merely a threat to freedom of speech and religious expression. It is a fundamental onslaught on the national identity and bedrock values of this country — and as such will destroy those freedoms which Christianity itself first created.</strong></font></p>
<p align="right"><font color="#009966"><a href="http://www.melaniephillips.com/articles-new/?p=447"><strong>Continue reading in The Daily Mail&#8230; </strong></a></font></p>
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