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Episcopal Church Chooses ‘Gay’ Over Gospel 8/5/2003 WASHINGTON, D.C. —“An unrepentant adulterer, who left his wife and children and is now living with another man has been confirmed as the new bishop of New Hampshire by the Episcopal Church. Rev. V. Gene Robinson has perpetrated a new level of blasphemy for a once great denomination,” said Sandy Rios, president of Concerned Women for America (CWA).
“Elevating a man celebrating a sinful lifestyle will destroy the Episcopal church as surely as his homosexuality destroyed Rev. Robinson’s marriage and family,” said Dr. Janice Shaw Crouse, director of the Beverly LaHaye Institute. “History clearly shows that any church that departs from the revealed truth of Scripture loses vitality—and members.”
Peter LaBarbera, senior policy analyst at the Culture and Family Institute, an affiliate of CWA, echoed Crouse, saying the Episcopal Church “is reeling from the constant attacks from unyielding liberals.” Studies show that churches that remain faithful to the Bible are rapidly gaining members, while liberal denominations that discard Bible truths are seeing an exodus from their pews.
“Rev. Robinson’s self-proclaimed desire to embrace homosexuality does not trump the Bible’s very clear teachings of God’s mercy,” LaBarbera said. “The fact is, Jesus Christ has helped many men and women overcome homosexual temptations and live in a way pleasing to God.”
He said that while the truth hasn’t changed, homosexual influence in the church has diluted teaching about sin: “Anyone who openly advocates immoral sexual behavior is unqualified for church leadership, whether it’s a Catholic priest who molests boys or an Episcopalian priest who breaks his marriage vows and publicly advocates destructive and sinful homosexual behavior.”
“Those who support having Episcopal bishops who are living a homosexual lifestyle claim that the ‘spirit is moving in a new direction,’” said Dr. Crouse. “The question is what ‘spirit’ is moving? Certainly not the same Holy Spirit Who inspired the writing of the Scriptures. This is clearly evident throughout Scripture—from the teaching in Genesis that ‘a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife’ to Saint Paul's injunction to Timothy that, ‘A bishop then must be blameless, the husband of one wife.’”
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