Walking With Integrity: Sudan bishops call for Robinson's resignation

Tuesday, July 22, 2008

Sudan bishops call for Robinson's resignation

MARITES SISON
STAFF WRITER
ANGLICAN JOURNAL

Jul 22, 2008

Canterbury, England

Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul, primate of the Episcopal Church of the Sudan and bishop of Juba, Tuesday said Bishop Gene Robinson, the openly gay bishop of New Hampshire, must resign for the sake of the unity of the Anglican Communion, which has been deeply divided over the issue of homosexuality.

Archbishop Deng Bul and his fellow bishops have also issued a statement calling on both the Canadian and American churches to "refrain from ordaining practicing homosexuals as bishops or priests, to refrain from approving same-sex blessings, and to "respect the authority of the Bible," among others.

The Sudanese bishops said that the consecration of Bishop Robinson and the approval by the Vancouver-based diocese of New Westminster of same- sex blessings has "seriously harmed the Church's witness in Africa and elsewhere, opening the church to ridicule and damaging its credibility in a multi-ethnic world."

To read the rest of the story, please visit the Anglican Journal Web site,

http://www.anglicanjournal.com

1 comment:

Elaine C. said...: Archbishop Deng Bul's request saddens me -- as a diocesan bishop there was a companion diocese relationship between his diocese and the diocese of Chicago. He has visited us and of course the relationship and connection will continue. What I wonder was, did he not realize that 30-40% of the diocese of Chicago clergy -- people he became friends with -- are glbt? That his request for Bishop Robinson to step down and for us to stop ordaining clergy that don't fit his culture . . . because it makes their evangelism hard. . . would make our church seem very wrong in our culture?; July 22, 2008 at 2:55 PM

Blog Faerie Commandments

Thou shalt be a current Integrity member; for as the
Psalmist says, “No good thing will YHWH withhold from those who walk with integrity.”
Thou shalt post legitimate news and public opinion
from recognized sources; for few blogs are fonts of true wisdom.
Thou shalt not post gossip; for it is serious sin that nobody preaches about anymore.
Thou shalt not include thine own opinions in posts; but thou mayest post thine own opinions using the comments feature.
Thou shalt not post hate speech nor engage in personal attacks against thy neighbor—neither in posts nor in comments. Love thy neighbor as thyself.
Though shalt post items that emphasize the LGBT-positive side of issues whenever possible; for there are more than enough blogs devoted to denegrating us.
Though shalt mostly post items dealing with LGBT
equality in The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion; but thou mayest post some LGBT secular news and LGBT news from other faith traditions.
Thou shalt not post copyrighted material in its
entirety; for it is abhorrent to the United States government. Rather, thou shalt post an excerpt or summary with a link to the original source.
Thou shalt cite the original source (author,
title, affiliation, publisher, date) of a post whenever possible; thus may readers direct their rants and raves in the right direction.
Thou shalt be wise with the quantity of material thou posteth to the blog; for the reader unsubscription rate is inversely proportional to the number of daily posts.
Thou shalt replace shaped quotation marks and
apostrophies (“ ” ’) with straight equivalents (" " ') whenever possible; for shaped characters are not supported by all e-mail servers.
Though mayest embed YouTube and Google video clips in a post but thou shalt also provide a hyperlink to the clip; for the clip itself may be stripped out of the e-mail version.
Thou shalt include graphics with thine posts when possible; for plain text is really boring.