For God Sake Step Down or Better Still, Drop Dead.

For God Sake Step Down or

Better Still, Drop Dead.

By Alex Albion.

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Undoubtedly, Desmond Tutu is today one of

the world's most respected and beloved religious

figures much like was John Paul II during his

profound and prolonged pontifical day.

~~

As South Africa's Anglican Archbishop-Emeritus of

Capetown, Desmond Tutu has written the foreword

for the American gay cleric Gene Robinson's book

foray entitled "In The Eye of the Storm." It hit the

biographical bookshelves less than a month ago

and is published in England by The Canterbury

Press of Norwich at the heafty price of $25.00 or

$12.99 for a rather thin book of which I have no

intention of either reading or forking out a dime for

anymore of Gene Robinson's claptrap. The other

day, I noticed at The Church House Bookshop,

located at the corner of Great and Little Smith

Streets and just a block or two away from West-

minster Abbey, an overblown window display of

the cleric's book for sale. Inside the shop itself,

stacks of the book was also stacked high.

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What upsets me is to see such an outstanding

figure like Desmond Tutu seemingly willing to

"prostitute" his good name for the sake of Gene

Robinson's infamy and his well-known wretched-

ness. While I absolutely approve of the retired

archbishop's right to write whatever forward

he wants in any book he wants, I still dis-

approve of him doing so for such a gay figure

as Gene Robinson, who now clothes and adores

himself in his Episcopal vestment as the first

openly gay bishop of the worldwide Anglican

Communion. He was first elected as the Suffragan

Episcopal bishop of the tiny, rural, state of New

Hampshire in 2oo3. Since then, we Anglicans and

American Episcopalians have been hammered over

the head by all things that are Gene Robinson.

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At first, I was totally neutral about his election,

his consecration and his bishopric. But now five

years later, I frankly have come to have little

or no time for such a Church wretch that Gene

Robinson has increasingly come to symbolise for

many both within and without the Church. His

first book appears to also trade on his infamy.

~~

The presence of this fellow has been nothing but a

destructive distraction and crippling blow to The
Episcopal Church of the United States of America
(ECUSA) and the Anglican Communion. And the fact

that Gene Robinson was the first openly gay Episcopal

bishop to be elected and consecrated is now beyond

any further rationale, explanation or justification for

him to parade about in his utter masochistic infamy

and his bizarre place in the history of the church.
http://www.nhepiscopal.org/bishop/bishop.html
~~

For the sake and sanity of the American Episcopal Church,
and the wider worldwide Anglican Communion, it is now
time for the first openly gay Bishop of New Hampshire,
V. Gene Robinson, to go and leave the Church in peace.

~~
If we look at what has been done in the name of this

gay fellow over the past five years, it boggles the mind

for its utter savagery and wickedness of those bishops

and lay members who cared not for the wellness of the

church per se but for their “right” to impose this gay

wretch upon us all. The Church has suffered enormously
because of him and it will continue to do so while he is

still a flaunting Episcopal bishop that seeks to present

his gayness above and beyond the faith and creed of

the whole church. His personal sexual preference is

his business, but instead it has been rammed down

our throats like a grotesque gesture upon us all.

~~

“An ape is an ape, even though dressed in scarlet,” de-

clared Shakespeare. Well, Gene Robinson isn’t far behind

that description for his presence, both within and without

the church, has blemished the name and reputation of all

touched by the Gene Robinson ecclesiastical debacle.

He has no shame at his own shamelessness.
~~
When Gene Robinson first came out of the gay wood-

works, I was absolutely neutral about him, as I stated

earlier, becoming then a bishop in the small Granite

state of New Hampshire at where I happened to also
go to school and at where I lived there under the then

ugly governorship of the Orfordville pig farmer called

Meldrim Thomson. I was aware of the Episcopal Diocese

at the state capital of Concord. At that time, I was unaware

of Gene Robinson himself but I was well aware of its two

previous New Hampshire Episcopal bishops – Philip Alan

Smith in the 70's and Douglas Edwin Theuner in the 80's.

He, Bishop Theuner, I was then told, was allegedly gay,

too - over the course of my 13 years in the northern New

England state. By the time I’d heard about gay Gene, I had

long gone from New Hampshire and I was living out in

Oregon at the time his name was making terrible head-

lines and creating bad waves for many of the faithful.
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Again, I was very neutral and figured it would be best

to see how his election, consecration, and bishopric would

go. I thought his status and his controversy as an openly

gay bishop would soon go away. And that given time, he’d

be seen as yet a regular and normal Episcopal member
of the American Episcopacy. Come five years later, how-

ever, I now see the continuing damage he has wrought

upon ECUSA and the Anglican Communion to which may

split up thanks, in a large part, to the negative presence

and gay lifestyle of Gene Robinson who now lives with

his "married" male partner Marc Andrews. Before that,

he, now gay Gene, was a divorcee with two children.
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Although he hasn’t been invited as an Episcopal bishop

to the upcoming 2008 Lambeth Conference, gay Gene
plans to be present anyway at the public events surr-

ounding the conference itself that is to be held at

Canterbury this July, 2oo8, with about 700 other

bishops from around world. I’ve never heard of some-

one who is not invited to something, to then invite

himself to an event that he is unwelcomed at. He's

going, so he says, to protest at not being invited

to Lambeth. And that’s Gene Robinson revelling

again in all his infamy and creating further

damage to the Church.

~~

I have come to personally detest all that he repre-

sents, not because he is gay per se but rather that his

presence mocks all that is right and proper within

historic Anglicanism. Gene Robinson has, in my

opinion, become the complete antithesis of all of

that. I say that despite what Desmond Tutu

otherwise says in his foreward about

the New Hampshire fellow.
~~
If his claims of loving the Church is what he says,
then it is time for Gene Robinson to consider if he

should stay being an Episcopal bishop in order to

help save and heal his beloved Church from being

split up to smithereens which it now appears is

edging toward such an abyss as the reality of Gene

Robinson’s consecration and bishopric continues to

take its toll among Anglicans/Episcopalians around

the world. The Anglican and Episcopal laity and

clergy are still warring against each other in the

never-ending debate of consenting or disapproving

the homosexual lifestyle that beings out those who

are for or against the openly gay cleric. The issue and

debate about human sexuality, and especially homo-

sexuality, is now worn out and I think we’re also

truly worn out about Gene Robinson. He surely

must know that the longer he stays in the church,

the longer his presence will continue to harm her.

Without sounding bitterly harsh, I now do believe

he needs for God sake to step down as bishop

or even better still - Drop Dead!!

~~

Let the Church live beyond what Gene Robinson

has come to represent and that has done nothing but

bring fragmentation to the Holy Body of the Church.

We need to live beyond this gay wretch who should

no longer be permitted to use the Church as a plat-

form preacher who preaches everything that doesn’t

belong among us as Anglicans and Episcoplians. So

again, I repeat, gay Gene please for God sake step

down or better still - Drop Dead … That’s if you

really and truly love the Church.
~~

Truly, Alex Albion.

+St. Simon, 2008.

~~

Here in part is Desmond Tutu's foreword:
"I have met him only once and I was impressed by
his demeanour and presence. For someone in the eye
of the storm buffeting our beloved Anglican Communion,
he is so serene, he is not a wild-eyed belligerent campaigner.
I was so surprised at his generosity towards those who have
denigrated him and worse. After all he and his partner had
to wear bullet proof vests for his consecration. He has
received death threats – all of which ought to have
made him want to give as much as he had got. No, he
is not vengeful. I have been amazed at his magnanimity
which reminded me so much of the generosity of spirit
that was displayed by many of the victims who came to
testify before the South African Truth and Reconciliation
Commission. We were frequently bowled over by the in-
credible willingness to forgive of many who had suffered
grievously at the hands of perpetrators of gruesome
atrocities. Instead of baying for their blood as might have
been expected, they chose to walk the path of forgiveness
and reconciliation rather than that of retribution and re-
venge. They did not demonise their adversary. By their
act of forgiveness they set themselves free from the

bondage of victimhood and they gave the perpetrator

the opportunity if he wanted to accept it, of making a
new beginning."

~~

:: News Update ::

Within less than 10 hours of posting the

above story on Gene Robinson, more than 400

e-mails have so far arrived from around the world.

Only a few of them have been posted by such send-

ers and critics, while most of the others have e-

mailed me off-the-record, so to speak. The vast

majority have condemned me outright and I have

been called every name under the sun in their

personal attacks on me about my integrity, my

sexuality, my Anglican faith, my mental capacity,

my writing ability, my anti-Gene Robinson

stance, and so on and so forth. I expected to get

some responses, one way or another, to what

I'd written here. But never did I expect so many

responses so quickly nor so many personal attacks

against my freedom to write what I think. I'll

repeat here again for those of you who have not

heard it before - "I WRITE WHAT-I BELIEVE,

NOT WHAT I AM TOLD-TO BELIEVE."

I welcome all comments, criticism, praise,

condemnation, congratulations, replies of

venom, words of joy, and strong opinions for

or against. I would also welcome any in-

depth article on the issue of Gene Robinson

to add to my blog herein. And finally, I am

most pleased that you've taken the time and

trouble to read what I think. I neither make

any apology for what I have written nor for

what I personally think - period.

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My statement "Drop Dead" is used not only

by me to provoke attention to the question of

Gene Robinson, but also for its literary impact.

The power to deploy words to engender reaction

or response has always been my favourite use

of words and phrases. It never fails to amaze

me how folkz show their true colours when con-

fronted with issues head on, or dead on, through

the use of such words like "drop dead."

So cheers everybody, Alex Albion.

+St. George's Day, 2oo8.

~~

Also Visit The Mad Priest's Blog:

http://revjph.blogspot.com/

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Gay Bishop Out of Anglican Summit
By Rachel Zoll. Associated Press Writer.
From "The Christian Post, " April 25th, 2008.

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The first openly gay Episcopal bishop announced he will have no

official role in a meeting this summer of world Anglican leaders,

saying restrictions that organizers wanted to place on his invol-

vement had caused him "considerable pain." New Hampshire

Bishop V. Gene Robinson had been told last year that he could

not fully participate in the once-a-decade gathering in England,

called the Lambeth Conference, as the world Anglican

Communion sat on the brink of schism over his 2003 election.
Rev. Gene Robinson, the first openly gay Episcopal bishop,

right, speaks to a committee Wednesday night, June 14, 2006

in Columbus, Ohio during the Episcopal General Convention.

The key committee was drafting the church's response

whether to preserve unity among Anglicans around the world

by temporarily barring gays and lesbians from becoming bishops.
Related:
Episcopal Leaders Investigate Conflict After Diocesan Split
Anglicans Issue Draft in Attempt to Avoid Schism
Bishop: Anglicanism Has Not Lost Its Way Despite Rifts

~~
Still, Episcopal leaders had been negotiating with the

Anglican Communion Office to allow him to join

the event in some capacity. The Episcopal Church

is the Anglican body in the U.S.
At a Texas meeting Monday night of the Episcopal

House of Bishops, Robinson said that the final offer to

include him was in effect a "non-offer," and he had de-

clined it. The House of Bishops was informed that full

invitation is "not possible" from the Archbishop of Can-

terbury to include Robinson. But Anglican leaders said

Robinson could "be present" in the conference Marketplace,

or convention hall, where exhibitors and church agencies

set up stalls, and that he could participate in one

"high profile" event, such as a news conference, at

the 20-day summit.

The exhibit hall is open to the public, while the Lambeth

discussions are private. Robinson told the bishops in Texas

that ever since he got word of the proposal late last Friday,

"I have been in considerable pain." He said he had hoped

to participate in Bible study and small group discussions

with other bishops.
"I am dismayed and sickhearted that we can't sit around

a table, as brothers and sisters in Christ, and study

Scripture together," he said. "It makes me wonder, if we

can't sit around a table and study the Bible together, what

kind of Communion do we have and what are we trying to

save?" A spokesman for the Anglican Communion did not

respond to a request for comment. The spiritual leader of

the Anglican Communion, Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan

Williams, didn't invite Robinson to Lambeth, partly to appease

theological conservatives, who believe the Bible bars gay

relationships. Some had threatened to boycott the meeting

if he attended.
Williams also didn't invite Bishop Martyn Minns, who leads

a network of conservative breakaway Episcopal parishes

in the U.S., that have aligned with the like-minded

Anglican Church of Nigeria.
Still, five Anglican archbishops from Africa and South America

said recently they would boycott Lambeth because they could

not share communion with the Episcopal bishops who had

consecrated Robinson. The five are among several Anglican

conservatives who are holding an international gathering

in June in the Mideast that is seen as a rival to Lambeth

(and such has now been re-scheduled of late.) As for The

Lambeth Conference (it) is (itself) scheduled July 16 th-

rough Aug. 3 at the University of Kent in England. Some

Episcopal bishops who believe that committed gay

relationships are acceptable in Scripture had discussed

boycotting the event if Robinson couldn't attend.
But Robinson repeatedly urged them to go. "For

God's sake, don't stay away," Robinson said. He

plans to travel to the event on his own, staying in the

Marketplace to be available for with anyone interested

in talking with him. "Pray for me," he said.

"I will need that. A lot."
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