From here:
Los Angeles—Praising the Obama administration for upholding the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) persons in domestic and international contexts, Diocese of Los Angeles Bishop Suffragan Mary D. Glasspool attended a June 29 White House reception and policy briefing in honor of LGBT Pride Month.
For those who might be confused, LGBT means Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender.
The Anglican Church believes that the sexual urges of those in the first three categories are placed there by God. And obviously God doesn’t make mistakes.
It also believes that the last category contains people whom God plopped into a body of the wrong sex. So in their case, he does make mistakes. The theological term for this apparent contradiction used to be known as an antinomy, but that was too hard for Anglican theologians to understand – or pronounce – so now it’s called a muddle.
No gay person I know says that they chose to be gay. Many wish they had not been and one told me that it is a choice no one would willingly make. It means never having the things in life that ‘stright” people take for granted, such as acceptance in society and family and the prospect of having a life where love can be offered and received without being labelled a pervert or worse. Growing up to get married, have children and grandchildren and to be secure in one’s old age with the love of family has been out of the question. Growing up gay means being excluded, ridiculed, and bullied. Hating gay people or even mocking and attacking them is a form of bullying. You would not hate your child for being left handed and you do not hate your neighbour because he or she is blonde. You do not hate people for being black or Asian (one would hope). Looking down on or disliking a person for being gay is the same thing. God must have made a lot of mistakes, since there are millions of gay people. Many of whom have been abd are Christians, and not a few saints. It must be a lot of work to find reasons to look down on your fellow humans for being who they are. Then again, feeling superior to them must be quite fulfilling.
Derek,
Christians who disagree with the notion that same-sex relationships are holy and to be encouraged do not hate those who are tempted by them: they love them and wish the best for them.
Christians don’t look down on homosexuals from a position of moral superiority: Christianity teaches that we are all sinners and, in our natural state, all deserve God’s judgement. That doesn’t mean, though, that a Christian has to say an activity is perfectly fine when the Bible says it isn’t. That isn’t “inclusion”, it’s a compromise of principle so gross that it leaves nothing in which to be included.
People may not choose to be homosexual (although some do claim to have made that choice), but they do choose whether or not to act on same sex attraction – or whether to work on ridding themselves of it. These might be difficult choices, but they are still choices.
Lastly, the Anglican Church of Canada and those within it who are obsessed with normalising homosexual activity are peddling a preposterous lie with such devious tenacity, they deserve to be mocked for all they are worth.
David,
I am saddened to say that for the first time, I am glad that you and your fellow zealots left the Anglican Church. And don’t kid yourself ANiC is not Anglican. Call yourselves anything you want but you are not Anglican. You are not in communion with the Anglican Church of Canada. And no, the Anglican Church did not leave you, you left it.
Why are you so threatened by the Anglican Network in Canada?
No, we aren’t. But we are in communion with the vast majority of Anglicans worldwide. As I have said before, time will tell – if we are of God, we will flourish, and if not, then not.