{"id":24817,"date":"2017-02-27T13:12:36","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=24817"},"modified":"2017-02-27T13:21:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T18:21:16","slug":"politics-and-the-bishop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/politics-and-the-bishop\/","title":{"rendered":"Politics and the Bishop"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bishop Kevin Robertson, in this case, the newly minted Bishop in the Diocese of Toronto who happens to be a practising homosexual.<\/p>\n

Here<\/a>, he uses Lent to lecture us about the evil of walls:<\/p>\n

Lent is an invitation to tear down walls<\/strong><\/p>\n

It is vital that this work of tearing down walls continues. Over the past few months, the world has witnessed an increase of suspicion and mistrust of \u201cthe other.\u201d The proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico threatens the further separation of two peoples that, though divided by citizenship, are united in so many other ways. In a speech in Berlin 30 years ago, American President Ronald Reagan famously challenged his Russian counterpart, \u201cMr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!\u201d But now, a new president is threatening to erect new walls with the aim of keeping people apart. The recent executive order to restrict entry into the U.S for people of seven Muslim-majority countries is another kind of wall. It paints entire nations and peoples with a single brush, and heightens a sense of xenophobia around the world. Even here in our own country, we were shocked and saddened by the murder of six Muslim men at a Quebec City mosque in late January. Again, a reminder of the wall s that divide us.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

None of this is surprising, of course. It is worth pointing out that the Mexico wall is designed to keep illegal immigrants out of the US while the Berlin Wall was used to imprison East Berliners in their communist paradise by their own government; that doesn’t matter much to Robertson. Robertson\u2019s article is quite clearly one that aligns with a liberal-left view of immigration and national sovereignty; it has nothing to do with the Gospel and is likely to alienate people whose politics don\u2019t match Roberson\u2019s.<\/p>\n

Now, had Robertson been in favour of the US-Mexico wall, he probably wouldn\u2019t have got his new job in the first place, but if by some miracle he had, I\u2019m sure there would be howls of righteous indignation from our clerical elite denouncing his opinions and demanding that he be prevented from speaking from any pulpit in Canada. Just as they have done for Franklin Graham.<\/p>\n

Here is the bishop smiling happily within the walls of one of his churches:<\/p>\n

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