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...TIME: Gene Robinson as a bishop-elect is the straw that broke the camel's back...
TIME: How do you respond to the election of Gene Robinson as Bishop of New Hampshire...
...Reverend Canon David Anderson: We consider Gene Robinson's election invalid, null and void. It is illegal, in that it violates the moral standards the church has established and uses for the evaluation of who can be a bishop or even a priest. And the time of basically giving a wink and a nod to some people is not acceptable. When those 62 bishops voted, at that moment there was a shattering of the Episcopal church as we know it. The structural disengagement of the church has begun. The question is what will it look like? What will...
...places where, this Friday, the Mullahs will download this stuff off the internet and they will read it at Friday prayers at the mosque. About how the Anglican church in the United States is approving homosexuality and has now elevated a homosexual man with a partner to be a bishop of the Anglican community. And Christians will probably die. They may die in Indonesia as well. Sodomy is punishable by death under Sharia law. It's a shame that Islam is that intolerant - that they kill Christians every time there's some wave that comes along. Right on the borders...
...school students. The pair had just returned from Minneapolis, where they had been youth delegates. They squealed with delight when the announcement was made that Robinson had won. Says Alex, ?There is so much publicity on him being a homosexual and all he wants to do is be the bishop, not the gay bishop...