The two faces of an Episcopal Bishop

January 12, 2009
by Jake Jones
Evangelical Examiner

The first openly gay Episcopal Bishop will say a prayer at the Lincoln Memorial at a pre-inaugural event for President-elect Barack Obama on January 18. This Bishop of the Episcopal Church is Gene Robinson (New Hampshire). When he was elevated to Bishop several years ago the news made headlines around the world.

Only problem is that the Bishop wears two faces when it comes to Christianity. One face is the face of a church leader and the other……….the face of biblical hypocrisy. The fact that Obama chose Robinson for this event is nothing more than appeasement because Robinson complained about Obama’s decision to have Saddleback Church Pastor Rick Warren do the invocation at the presidential inauguration on January 20. Of course, Obama told everyone that he represented change for the country, I’m not sure that this is the kind of change the country is looking for.

In an interview with the Concord Monitor, Robinson was quoted as saying “While that is a Holy and sacred text to me, (the Bible) it is not for many Americans,". He said additionally "I will be careful not to be especially Christian in my prayer. This is a prayer for the whole nation.” the rest

Whining your way to the White House
By Uwe Siemon-Netto
January 13, 2009

So now Vicki Gene Robinson, the Episcopal bishop of New Hampshire, has finally managed to whine his way into some role at President-elect Barack Obama’s inauguration. For the sake of an argument, let’s forget, if only one could, that he is openly homosexual; let’s forget, of only one could, that he is the cause of a tragic schism in the world’s Anglican community; let’s forget, if only one could, that he had dumped his wife to live with a male lover, whom he “married” in a civil ceremony,

Let’s forget, if only one could, that three months ago he led a retreat for homosexual Catholic priests urging them to push for the ordination of women in the Church of Rome, thus meddling in its affairs and offending the members of the largest Christian Church body in the United States, as the Catholic League’s feisty president Bill Donohue has rightly pointed out. the rest

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