L.A. Church Wants More Gay People Admitted as Clergy

Riverside, Ca, OneNewsNow,com Talk Radio/Video stream host Fred Jackson reports the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles is calling for more homosexual men, and even lesbian women, to be admitted as clergy into the Anglican communion. The Episcopal church has been under fire over their progressive separation from traditional Anglican Christianity over the last few years, causing conservative Diocese all over the United States, and the 77 Million + Anglicans in the world, to consider the tough decision of whether to break away and form their own, or join another, communion. With the consecration of V. Gene Robinson to Bishop in 2003 the global outcry caused the Lambeth Conference attendees to seemingly demonstrate their apparent willingness to communicate more openly with the entire Anglican congregation over this agenda they had been forcing. But with this latest vote it would seem the more liberal Bishops in Southern California have made a decision to not try and stop further division. Indeed they seem to be flaunting their disparity. The appointment of Katherine Schori as the Head Bishop for the Episcopal Church in the United States of America in 2006 caused a stir over her stated view on the singularity of Jesus. When an interviewer asked the question, "Is belief in Jesus the only way to get to heaven?" Schori said, "We who practice the Christian tradition understand him as our vehicle to the divine. But for us to assume that God could not act in other ways is, I think, to put God in an awfully small box." But then it was this same Episcopal communion that appointed Schori that had received the sharp reprimand of Uganda's House of Bishops as they resolved to "deplore, abhor and condemn in the strongest possible terms" the ECUSA ordination of this unrepentant homosexual, Gene Robinson, to the position of "Right-Reverend" Bishop of the Diocese of New Hampshire. Yes, it is this same first woman priest of the Anglican communion, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America Katharine Jefferts Schori that has helped do this latest telling deed. The Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles has joined seven others in passing a resolution asking the Church to also let lesbians, as well as even more homosexual men, to become Bishops. In expressing their support for the "Sacramental Blessing for a Life-Long Covenant," the Los Angeles Diocese showed their direct and vocal opposition to Proposition 8. That recent California ballot vote to add to the state Constitution of California the clause to keep the definition of marriage to a union between a man and a woman. It was voted into law by the citizens of California in the last Presidential election. Homosexual supporters say it was intended to stop same-sex marriage. "To these people the authority of scripture is not very important" said Jim Brown, a reporter on with Fred on the OneNewsNow Talk Show. "They're questioning God's Word. It's... an abomination." He said with a shake of his head in apparent disbelief. Jackson then said, as he concluded his remarks on this story, how this recent action by the ECUSA shows the reason why conservative Anglicans are leaving their communion, "Once again this proves why there is no hope for this denomination as it is." With this renewed inculcation of what Orthodox Africans view as unconverted sinners to high office in the Episcopal Church in the USA, Jim Brown of AFA said, "It was a really 'in-your-face' attitude on the part of this diocese. And its, basically, [them saying] "Take our agenda or leave." There is not much motivation for a conservative believer to remain in that diocese, at all. I have to say that this denomination is really becoming a denomination of un-believers. There's really no question about it. And the way that these people are acting - I guess we really shouldn't be surprised; These are the types of actions that unbelievers would have. I think it's really sad though. Because this denomination wasn't started that way... it's really had a precipitous decline. It all starts with the lowering of Biblical standards. And we've seen it more and more. This Los Angeles situation confirms that." Jim said, "To these people the authority of scripture is not very important." This reporter wonders when the Pedophiles will be called in to the ECUSA for their interpretation of the Bible in their own image.