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Consequences.


Dear editor, Canon Gene Robinson The Right Reverend Vicki Gene Robinson (born (May 29 1947 (1947--) (age 60)) is the ninth bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire in the Episcopal Church in the United States of America .  has been consecrated con·se·crate  
tr.v. con·se·crat·ed, con·se·crat·ing, con·se·crates
1. To declare or set apart as sacred: consecrate a church.

2. Christianity
a.
 bishop, the first bishop in an open gay relationship. While the Third World and many evangelicals are calling it grounds for schism Bishop Robinson Bishop Robinson may refer to:
  • Bishop Gene Robinson, a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America
  • Bishop L. Robinson (police commissioner), a former police commissioner of Baltimore, Maryland
 and progressive liberals fail to see the fallout of their views and actions.

First, Third World Christians will bear the brunt of this decision. People of other religions will see our fellow brethren as decadent and immoral, therefore persecution will increase.

Additionally, Anglicans will cause a rift between themselves and other denominations.

Finally, Anglicans will send a clear message that actively engaging in a homosexual lifestyle is proper. We will negate the good news of Jesus and reject the New Testament admonition Any formal verbal statement made during a trial by a judge to advise and caution the jury on their duty as jurors, on the admissibility or nonadmissibility of evidence, or on the purpose for which any evidence admitted may be considered by them.  to sexual purity. We will become a denomination of hypocrites.

Stephen Lay

Mississauga, Ont.
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Title Annotation:Letters
Author:Lay, Stephen
Publication:Anglican Journal
Article Type:Letter to the Editor
Date:Dec 1, 2003
Words:128
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