Episcopal Church Consecrates First Openly Lesbian Bishop

[The Dusk Man]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='16 May 2010 - 09:11 AM' timestamp='1274019061' post='2111402']
Plenty of liberal, cafeteria Catholics fill the pews every Sunday and seem uninterested in making a pretend Catholic Church. To them, the Church is more of a culture than a religion - and who just picks up and leaves their culture? Also, I feel that a lot of the teachings they disagree with are contraception, abortion, and homosexuality which they probably believe are "side issues" - you know, as long as I go to Mass and believe in the Eucharist, God will not be concerned when my spouse and I use a contraceptive. If there would be a split, it would have to be a rebellion against the hierarchy - the group would hotly argue for women's ordination and one thing would lead to another. But women's ordination is just not enough for them to stand on. Still, the Church stands on over 2,000 years of Tradition - one cannot break away from the Church and attempt to devise a convincing argument with 2,000 years of sound moral doctrine staring them in the face. In other words, I do not think a pretend Catholic Church would result in success (i.e. a bunch of these churches popping up across the country). As an aside, even homosexuals who were raised Catholic still consider themselves Catholic, or take an overall fuzzy feeling approach to religion. Just my experience. Oh and the above is centered around liberal Catholics. One could argue that sedevacants have been successful, but they seem to use Church teaching and history as opposed to dismissing it the way liberals do.
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tl;dr "They're not bothered so much that they make the effort to form a new church?" O_o

[YMNolan]

Do they even have hetero-sexual clergy anymore?

[Bennn]

[quote name='YMNolan' date='16 May 2010 - 08:58 PM' timestamp='1274036288' post='2111486']
Do they even have hetero-sexual clergy anymore?
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Maybe they think that's a sin?

[HisChildForever]

[quote name='The Dusk Man' date='16 May 2010 - 02:40 PM' timestamp='1274035249' post='2111480']
tl;dr "They're not bothered so much that they make the effort to form a new church?" O_o
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Did you really just give me a tl;dr over a PARAGRAPH?

You did read the original post, right? Or was that too long?

It always baffles me that a person will admit to having not read the post, yet reply anyway. Or what passes as a reply.

Edited May 16, 2010 by HisChildForever

[MissyP89]

Wait. Wasn't Schori gay?

ETA: Nope, just the first woman. Mea culpa.

Edited May 16, 2010 by MissyP89

[The Dusk Man]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='16 May 2010 - 03:12 PM' timestamp='1274040729' post='2111503']
Did you really just give me a tl;dr over a PARAGRAPH?

You did read the original post, right? Or was that too long?

It always baffles me that a person will admit to having not read the post, yet reply anyway. Or what passes as a reply.
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I was mostly being goofy about it.

[Nihil Obstat]

[quote name='MissyP89' date='16 May 2010 - 03:16 PM' timestamp='1274041019' post='2111504']
Wait. Wasn't Schori gay?

ETA: Nope, just the first woman. Mea culpa.
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Easy mistake, with her haircut. I wondered at first too.

I'm awful, with these stereotypes.
According to a lot of these Episcopalians, that's about the only thing that'll get you to hell these days, homophobia. Also racism, I guess, and producing greenhouse gasses.

She's married and has kids though, apparently.

[Winchester]

[quote name='HisChildForever' date='16 May 2010 - 04:12 PM' timestamp='1274040729' post='2111503']
Did you really just give me a tl;dr over a PARAGRAPH?

You did read the original post, right? Or was that too long?

It always baffles me that a person will admit to having not read the post, yet reply anyway. Or what passes as a reply.
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Look. They're making friends!

[The Dusk Man]

[quote name='Winchester' date='16 May 2010 - 08:31 PM' timestamp='1274059885' post='2111602']
Look. They're making friends!
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I feel so special!

[Winchester]

You look special.

[Apotheoun]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg[/media]

[The Dusk Man]

[quote name='Apotheoun' date='16 May 2010 - 09:03 PM' timestamp='1274061782' post='2111643']
[media][url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg"]http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RmwqnqL3Hbg[/url][/media]
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...............oh, so perfectly placed, my head is spinning! XDDD

[Luigi]

[quote name='The Dusk Man' date='16 May 2010 - 02:40 PM' timestamp='1274035249' post='2111480']
tl;dr "They're not bothered so much that they make the effort to form a new church?" O_o
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I've never seen a "tl;dr" before but I figured it out all by myself - and with a little context from His Child Forever. I'm surprised I've never gotten one myself - I can go on sometimes.

N.B.: Wal-Mart's running a special on attention spans, size long - be the first on your block to get one!