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Ex-reverend now.<\/p>\nEx-reverend now.<\/p>\n
In 2003 Rev. Robin Barret was rector of Good Shepherd church in St. John\u2019s. He had been married to a woman for 21 years and had three children. Yes, I know that\u2019s unusual for an Anglican priest today \u2013 most male priests seem to want to marry men, but these were early days in the homoerotic devolution of the Anglican Church of Canada.<\/p>\n
Finally, after 25 years in the closet <\/em>Rev. Robin decided that he could no longer hide who he \u201creally was\u201d, so he announced to his congregation that he was gay. To put it bluntly, he liked having sex with other men. To pacify his congregation, he invited them to attend a \u201csix-week educational workshop at the church on homosexuality\u201d. Rev. Robin declared he hoped \u201cit helps people to understand how I can be gay and a priest at the same time \u2026 there\u2019s no going back.\u201d Apparently, that left some in the congregation unconvinced. \u00a0Read more about it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Unfortunately, this wasn\u2019t the end of who Rev. Robin \u201creally was\u201d. In 2009 he was arrested for possessing child pornography; some of the images were of babies being molested. Rev. Robin must have decided that it was not yet the right time to come out<\/em> as a clerical paedophile so there was no course on helping people understand how he could continue to be a priest while enjoying watching babies being raped. In fact, this led to a period of going in<\/em>: to jail, not a closet.<\/p>\n Elizabeth Barnes, executive officer of the Diocese of Eastern Newfound and Labrador, was disappointed by Rev. Robin\u2019s tastes. \u201cI\u2019ve worked with him directly. I always found him a genuine, caring individual and his call to social causes is exemplary of the kind of man he is\u201d she declared<\/a>. And Hitler made the trains run on time.<\/p>\n Robin Barret is in the news again<\/a>. This time because he wants evidence presented at his trial to be excluded; so much for the Anglican mania for inclusion. He believes the evidence should be excluded because the police battered his door down unannounced, not leaving him any time at all to hide the photos of the raped babies.<\/p>\n Barret was jailed for two and a half years and placed on the national sex offender registry for life. You can read about Barret\u2019s appeal to have the evidence thrown out here<\/a>.<\/p>\n God, through Christ will forgive anyone no matter how heinous the sin. But where is Barret\u2019s repentance? Of course, he may have repented \u2013 in the closet, as it were \u2013 we have no way of knowing. I do hope so, I would not want to meet my maker with that on my conscience.<\/p>\n Still, at least \u201chis call to social causes is exemplary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ex-reverend now. In 2003 Rev. Robin Barret was rector of Good Shepherd church in St. John\u2019s. He had been married to a woman for 21 years and had three children. Yes, I know that\u2019s unusual for an Anglican priest today … Continue reading