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...repercussions will start when people go home to their congregations, when rectors meet parishioners at the church door, when people start to say, 'I'm out of here.'" THE REV. DAVID C. ANDERSON, president of the American Anglican Council, criticizing the confirmation of the Rev. V. Gene Robinson as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church and the worldwide Anglican Communion...
...Anderson: What was wrong? It's not true! If you want to be a Buddhist or a polytheist, it would be a wonderful answer. But if you are a Christian and you believe Christian doctrine and you are in the context of 2000 years of Christian understanding of theology, it is flat not correct ? To believe that every religion is equally valid and has its own way to god that works - that's simply not true...
...Anderson: What is arrogance? Arrogance is if you pretend to know the truth and say someone else's truth isn't truth and it turns out you're not right. That's arrogance. But if you share your truth and say the other person is not true, and it turns out that you are right, then it isn't arrogance...
...Anderson: I am. As I said to start, in a marriage which we might use to characterize the Episcopal church there can be differences, squabbles and fights. But at some point, even though the people may love each other, if violence toward one of them becomes too much it's over. For us it's been a theological violence - of being dismissed, pushed to the margins, our point not recognized, ridiculed. And the things we feel strongly about simply outvoted and pushed over. We've said this is a key issue. Both Gene Robinson and the same sex blessing...
...Anderson: It's a done deal. We perceive that they have moved to the side to go over Niagara Falls theologically and we're simply going straight down the road where we've been going with the Anglican communion. Here's an interesting thought. Gene Robinson has said there came a point in his marriage where he and his wife still cared for each other but they couldn't live together as man and wife. So they literally went into the church - his words as I understand it - they kept their vows by breaking them. In an open, honest...