My Homosexual Agenda is
Jesus, Bishop Declares
By Monisha Bansal
CNSNews.com Staff Writer
March 15, 2007
(CNSNews.com) - An openly homosexual Episcopal bishop from New Hampshire
Wednesday asserted that the "500-year experiment in Anglicanism is being
tested right now." The election and consecration of Bishop Gene Robinson
in 2003 prompted some Episcopal parishes in the
During a panel discussion hosted Wednesday by the Washington Region for Justice
and Inclusion in
"It is my great privilege to be a small part of that," he added.
Episcopal bishops met in
Following Robinson's elevation in 2003, individuals from the Anglican Church
worldwide and the Episcopal Church in the
But on Wednesday, Robinson noted that "it was the people of
"You would get the impression that our church is pretty evenly divided on
this great debate," Robinson said. "Of some nearly 8,000 parishes in
the Episcopal Church, only 47 of them have sought oversight from some other
province of the Anglican Communion."
He also said that social rifts over tradition are not new among Episcopalians,
and began with the first female Episcopal bishop. "This debate in the Episcopal Church started 30
years ago ... long before my consecration."
(He is referring to the gay manifesto written in 1971 and the early attempts of
those to infiltrate and subvert that allowed him to be ordained as an Episcopal
Bishop)
But Rev. Canon David Anderson, president of the American Anglican Council, told
Cybercast News Service that "Bishop Robinson has garnered a place
in history as the defiant homosexual cleric who preferred to force his
sexuality on the larger church at any cost, rather than weigh the costs of what
his actions would take on the entire Anglican Communion.
"His name will become synonymous with schism,"
"If you
want to know my homosexual agenda, it's Jesus," argued
Robinson. "I feel that this (Introducing homosexuality into the greater Anglican church, or the conversion of Anglicans into homosexuality)
is a real extension of what I've been called to do in the gospels.
"And I
would propose to you that peoples' coming out -- gay and lesbian folk being
honest about who they are, what their lives are, what their families are like,
their desire to contribute to this culture, to serve in the military, to take
their place as full citizens of this country -- is God at work,"
he added. (He is following the pages of the gay
manifesto written in 1971 – This document is available on this website – on the
sex and family page)
"Gene
Robinson may say his homosexual agenda is Jesus, but his speaking
tours and publicity all point to his
fixation on his being homosexual and promoting the approval of homosexual
relationships," said Anderson.
"Strangely missing in all of his media encounters is any real
evangelization for Jesus as the savior who provides forgiveness for our
sins,"
Robinson noted that because of the religious right, "It may be easier for
gay and lesbian people to come out as gay than for religious people to come out
as Christian." (It appears that he does not mean coming out as being true
believers but coming out as Gay and Lesbian Christians)
Matt Barber, policy director for cultural issues at Concerned Women for
"It especially takes courage to stand up for biblical truth, most
particularly, the
truth that the very homosexual lifestyle in which Bishop Robinson chooses to
engage is a lifestyle centrally defined by
immorality," he told Cybercast
News Service.
"In today's twisted pop culture which demands that all morality is entirely relative, being gay is in vogue. Many
young people are experimenting with the homosexual lifestyle as a trendy sexual
option," Barber said.
"Being 'open-minded' and blindly
accepting sexual sin makes you 'tolerant' and popular, while being a Christian
makes you reviled and ostracized," he said. (This is true for denominational churches as
they feel the pressure to bow the knee to the Gay and feminist cabal.)