Blasphemy.Dear editor, It is fine that Archbishop Finlay could bless bless tr.v. blessed or blest , bless·ing, bless·es 1. To make holy by religious rite; sanctify. 2. To make the sign of the cross over so as to sanctify. 3. To invoke divine favor upon. this marriage; unfortunately he should not have tried to do it in God's name. Putting words in God's mouth is called "blasphemy blasphemy, in religion, words or actions that display irreverence toward or contempt for God or that which is held sacred. Blasphemy is regarded as an offense against the community to varying degrees, depending on the extent of the identification of a religion with ." The archbishop could bless anyone and anything as he sees fit, but it is the archbishop's blessing, not God's, for God made it abundantly clear in Scripture that he calls homosexuality homosexuality, a term created by 19th cent. theorists to describe a sexual and emotional interest in members of one's own sex. Today a person is often said to have a homosexual or a heterosexual orientation, a description intended to defuse some of the long-standing not wrong, but rather "an abomination." Pretty harsh stuff if you ask me. But don't ask me, for my opinion is no better than the readers who wrote in praising the archbishop. God alone has that authority. We are all equal in the eyes of the Lord, equal in love, grace, mercy and sin. The chaff chaff 1. chaffed hay; called also chop. 2. the winnowings from a threshing, consisting of awns, husks, glumes and other relatively indigestible materials. from the wheat is demonstrated by accepting what the Lord has made acceptable in his eyes and repenting of that which is not. Dan Clark Calgary |
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