Gene Robinson will visit Australia in 2013

The first openly gay bishop to preside over an Episcopalian diocese will be visiting Australia next year following the launch of his new book God believes in love, straight talk about gay marriage.

Over the years he has been a campaigner for same-sex marriage and was able to marry his partner of 25 years in 2010 once the laws in New Hampshire permitted their marriage.

"I think it will be not too far in the future that we will look back on this the same way we look back on laws that prohibited people of different races from being married or how we look back at slavery," Robinson told US reporters.

Robinson will be hosted in Australia by the Paddington Uniting Church and a collection of like-minded churches and individuals.

Bill ... would it be ethical for Sydney Anglicans who are dissatisfied with the prejudical treatment of gays and women... to seek ordination from Bishop Robinson and then return to Sydney setting up liberal satellites churches responsible to an Episcopalian diocese?

Well Calam... conservatives did it so it must be ethical... but I think it's only ethical if the alliance is certain to promote homophobia and encarceration of gays in African countries.

“Causing occasional offence is not the greatest sin. Being boring, self-righteous or unkind compete for that award”

... says Michael Kirby.

Say Bill... do you reckon that ugly dog barks like a seal !

Come to think of it Calam...he even looks like a seal!

Well I dunno...because I thought he was a cat!?

Phillip Jensen wants the right to discriminate and cause dissention within the public sector

Phillip Jensen criticises the media for what he believes is the libertarian censoring of fundamentalists like himself. Phillip is finding it hard to practise his Christianity because his fundamental right to discriminate within the public arena has been compromised. Phillip claims that...To question migration policy is to be called a racist. To question Islam is to be attacked as ‘Islamophobic’. To oppose homosexual marriage is to be labelled ‘homophobic’. To question abortion ethics is ‘an affront to women’s rights’. Phillip says that democracy is no longer the rule of fundamentalists like him but the rule of ‘right thinking’ people i.e. non-religious people.

Yes but all is not lost Phillip because there is always totalitarian  Jensenism, where fundamentalism flourishes unopposed within the Sydney diocese... a world where the 'Southern Cross' can print biased articles and refuse to publish the letters written by liberal Anglicans; an environment where the Sydney Anglican website avoids publishing the impact that evangelicals and Anglicans have had on the human rights of GLBT people in Uganda. Oh... and what about Sydney Anglican's attitudes towards Anglicans who don't believe in discrimination against gays, the literal interpretation of  Noah or women being forced to remain subservient to male clergy? I'm sure they are encouraged to leave the diocese because they are not seen as 'right thinking' or religious enough?

Victorian Anglican Priest and professor of sociology backs marriage equality

Anglican priest and professor at Monash University, Gary Bouma, told the Monash Weekly that he was an advocate of same-sex marriage and called for a change in legislation to reflect public sentiment and end discrimination. He said...I will support religious diversity and people's different beliefs but I don't believe I have the right, on the basis of my religious beliefs, to limit somebody else's life chances or deny them basic human dignity.Professor Bouma also pointed out that...the kingdom of God, as acted on by Jesus, was more inclusive than anybody could even begin to think of at that time. It was inclusive of Gentiles, it was inclusive of women who were absolutely despised and excluded from society. It was inclusive of those who were deemed impure by the religious leaders. Jesus extended the boundaries of acceptability and inclusion every time he turned around.

Exodus moves away from curing gays and towards promoting celibacy or finding an understanding member of the opposite sex

This week in Minneapolis, 600 Exodus ministers and followers are gathering for the group's annual conference. The conference is about dissociating the group from the controversial practice usually called ex-gay, reparative or conversion therapy. Exodus president, Alan Chambers, says... I do not believe that cure is a word that is applicable to really any struggle, homosexuality included...
The ministry's emphasis for gays and lesbians is now about celibacy or finding an understanding opposite-sex partner.
Chambers acknowledged some Exodus affiliates might still offer reparative therapy and that 99.9 percent of people he's encountered in two decades with Exodus were not able to completely rid themselves of same-sex attraction.
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So Ennis ... did Sydney Anglican, Haydn Sennitt, raise enough money
to take himself off to the Exodus Conference?

Perhaps Sydney Anglicans could get their organisation, Liberty Christian  Ministries Inc to seek out understanding heterosexual Christian women and arrange marriages. Now wouldn't they be  marriages made in heaven...and Haydn could tell the men how to behave and Phillip Jensen could provide the marriage guidance for women.

Julian Mann speaks out at Anglican Mainstream and says... THE CHURCH IS

                                                     

Well known misogynist, Julian Mann is asking someone to repent for the unGodly disorder that permeates from clergy civil partnerships within the C of E. Usually, Mr Mann is trying to clean up the unGodly disorder of women's equality within the church. Julian knows that God created discrimination against gays and women in the church to ensure order for the heterosexual male.

Perhaps that nice Mr Mann might be able to repent for those unGodly gays and women...that would be a nice Christian thing to do. Do you think Archbishop Williams is referring to Mr Mann in his recent article about the church's attitude to homosexuals and women's equality? It seems that the church is very proccupied with sex and gender.

Dog Tags for Gays in Queensland...and Anglican Mainstream thinks it's a good idea!

Anglican Mainstream has used Queensland, Australia as a source of hope in rolling back gay rights. The newly elected Liberal government in Queensland, last week rolled back the state’s Civil Partnerships Act to prohibit state-sanctioned ceremonies and change the name of civil unions to registered relationships. The Sydney Star Observer reports that Nathan Stoneham has created dog tags to potentially replace rings to send a strong political message. Nathan said...This process of registering your relationship sounds like the same thing you’d do with your dog or your trailer. It’s not very romantic... This gives people a way to get the message out that things are going backwards in Queensland.
The tags are engraved with “DOG TAGS FOR GAYS” with a unique, meaningless registration number.

I wonder if that lovely little Dobby or Canon Sugden would like me to order them one. They could be registered as ugly bigot 007 and 008.