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Lesbian Elected Episcopal Bishop in LA; the shism widens
Topic Started: Dec 7 2009, 08:02 PM (521 Views)
tomdrobin
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http://news.aol.com/article/episcopal-diocese-of-los-angeles-elects/800928

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"Any group of people who have been oppressed because of any one, isolated aspect of their persons yearns for justice and equal rights," Glasspool said after the vote, thanking the diocese for choosing her.
Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori, the head of the Episcopal Church, is scheduled to consecrate Glasspool on May 15 in Los Angeles, if the church accepts the vote.
Glasspool was elected on a seventh ballot that included two other candidates. She won 153 clergy votes and 203 lay votes, giving her just enough to emerge as the winner.
The election began Friday with six candidates vying for two vacancies for assistant bishops.
The winner for the first vacancy was the Rev. Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector of St. Clement's-By-The-Sea Episcopal Church in San Clemente. As the balloting progressed for the second vacancy, two other candidates eventually withdrew.
The Rev. Kendall Harmon of the traditional Diocese of South Carolina, which recently voted to distance itself from the national church, said Saturday's vote would further damage relations among Episcopalians, their fellow Anglicans and other Christians.
"This decision represents an intransigent embrace of a pattern of life Christians throughout history and the world have rejected as against biblical teaching," said Harmon, an adviser to the diocesan bishop.
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ngc1514
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Probably a better selection than all those pedophile priests we've been reading about over the years.

I do a lot of reading and, over the years, don't recall a single lesbian attack on a child being reported.
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Irish church knew abuse 'endemic'

An inquiry into child abuse at Catholic institutions in Ireland has found church leaders knew that sexual abuse was "endemic" in boys' institutions.

It also found physical and emotional abuse and neglect were features of institutions.

Schools were run "in a severe, regimented manner that imposed unreasonable and oppressive discipline on children and even on staff".

The nine-year inquiry investigated a 60-year period.

About 35,000 children were placed in a network of reformatories, industrial schools and workhouses up to the 1980s.

More than 2,000 told the Commission to Inquire Into Child Abuse they suffered physical and sexual abuse while there.

The leader of the Catholic Church in Ireland, Cardinal Sean Brady, said he was "profoundly sorry and deeply ashamed that children suffered in such awful ways in these institutions".

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8059826.stm
There ARE worse things than lesbian bishops.


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Irongoat
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Pornographers, homosexuality, pedophilia, necrophilia...the alternative religious movement is on the march. doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh doglaugh
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ngc1514
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Not sure about some, but pedophilia is apparently a problem with the Catholic clergy.
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Pope Benedict XVI is "deeply disturbed and distressed" by a report detailing clerical sexual abuse in the archdiocese of Dublin and is writing to Irish Catholics to help them ensure the future safety of children in the church, the Vatican said today.

The pontiff wished "once more to express his profound regret at the actions of some members of the clergy who have betrayed their solemn promises to God, as well as the trust placed in them by the victims and their families, and society at large". His statement followed a meeting yesterday with Irish bishops and senior-ranking members of the Roman Curia to discuss the crisis.

Benedict shared the "outrage, betrayal and shame felt by so many of the faithful in Ireland", according to the Vatican.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/11/pope-irish-catholics-sex-abuse

Is this one of the alternative religious movements you were talking about?

Religion and war - mankind's most fascinating and odd pursuits.
Edited by ngc1514, Dec 16 2009, 06:35 AM.
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