Disestablishment?

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I wonder what will happen to the Church of England after this debate over gay bishops. The future doesn't look rosy what ever way the debate comes out, really. It was nice to hear an actual bishop endorsing my view of the bible, saying that it consists of people describing their experiences of God and what they believed about it. It's a valuable document, particularly for learning about Jesus but it does need to be read in the context of it's time and shouldn't be taken literally.

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Re: I don't see the particular relevance of Islam in this...

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proselytising to celebrate active, practicing homosexuality is really what Christians should be focussing on to the exclusion of all other issues and needs in life.

Well, I don't think that is what was sought by the advancement of Gene Robinson. His homosexuality was happenstance to his main mission, though unprecedented in his open acknowledgement. Sure, those homophobes have interpreted the event in this way, unfortunately. Incidentally, it was interesting to hear on the radio an argument put out by one female Anglican who felt Robinson's homosexuality was tantamount to adultery. In strictly legal terms, she has a point, but its null logic when homosexuals cannot marry anyway.

I can't help but think that this debate undermines the efforts of ordinary Christians to visit the imprisoned, help the sick, aid and be alongside the poor, and to succour the weak.

Quite right, which is interest to see Robinson's efforts at the olive branch.

All in all, it says a great deal about people's worked-up revulsion over things that are really none of their affair. Broadly idiotic when one considers the prevalence of homosexuals to the cloth anyway...well, that I've seen and known.