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
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.
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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.
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“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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!
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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.
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Truly, Alex Albion.
+St. Simon, 2008.
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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."
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:: 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.
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Also Visit The Mad Priest's Blog:
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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
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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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