Aug 24, 2007Quickie Link: Gay Anglican Bishop Gene Robinson Takes a Stand
By vanrozenheim
(USA) - The Anglican Communion’s only openly gay bishop, the Rt Revd Gene Robinson, the Bishop of New Hampshire, will use a BBC broadcast next week to undermine the Communion’s carefully crafted compromise that distinguishes between homosexual orientation and practice. The Bishop says that the distinction is dishonest. He will also accuse his African critics of being like old-style US racists in their attack on lesbians and gays. He takes issue with “people who would say its OK to be gay as long as you don’t practise it. First, I would question the honesty of their statement that it is OK to be gay in their eyes, because their other actions do not indicate that to me. Second of all, very few people are called to celibacy, certainly not a whole category of people.”
