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ISHOP William Murphy (RCC – Rockville Centre, NY) “corrects” a local politician on same-sex marriage. Coincidentally, he rehashes all the tired, useless arguments in this schnazzy new chart that lists all the blues and reds on the topic. It’s making all the rounds on the net just now…

Point of order: the Bishop has [...]

AUL FROMBERG, on the day after the Prop 8 Ruling in California, paints an interesting picture in today’s Daily Episcopalian:
In the ongoing work of converting a culture ––bending it toward justice, toward the restoration of human dignity and ordinary goodness––you have to recognize what the big struggles are, and which ones are small.
It’s hard [...]

EAR Californians (and others) who are upset by the recent Prop 8 decision… who are acting as if Californians don’t do this sort of thing…
I’m wondering how many gays were protesting in the streets in the 1970s when Proposition 13 robbed the state of tax funds and services and put California in a budget crisis [...]

ATHOLIC (Roman) News Agency offers us a prime example of Catholic (Roman) Homophobia: citing Rhode Island’s Bishop Thomas J Tobin’d call that Catholic apathy on same-sex ‘marriage’ must end. Last week (April 23) the Bishop’s Column in the local Roman newspaper explained in gory detail all the reasons good Papists should oppose Same-Sex Marriage [...]

ER HOST IS Woefully behind in his reading of The Church and the Homosexual. In fact, chapter 3 was just started this weekend. Many apologies.
I will continue apace. Or, rather: faster.

HE EPISCOPAL Diocese in which I live has decided too take Discrimination a step further than is required by Episcopal Law. Not only are we not to elect a gay Bishop, we’re not to have gay candidates.
I’m of two minds… on the one hand it is good that someone – anyone – in ECUSA [...]

Scripture and Homosexuality
McNeill says in the first paragraph that there are two questions we have to deal with: the first is the place of scripture in moral theology and the second is the place of the human sciences.
…[A] Christian ethics as such reflects on human reality within the context of Christian revelation, it [...]

Moral Theology and Homosexuality
As the framework for this chapter, McNeill points us to Fr Charles Curran’s Catholic Moral Theology in Dialogue. “Father Curran’s position merits serious consideration… in order to discern both the advanced understanding of (the LGTB) situation that it manifests and the limits of that understanding, and especially the value of the [...]

HIS Is the first in a series on The Church and the Homosexual by the Rev’d John McNeill.
Preface & Introduction
The preface begins with noting the book had originally been granted an imprimatur by the Church. This was later retracted. Then the author was silenced by the Church, and then expelled from his [...]

ALKING TO Work this AM, I had a bit of a revelation: I’m big on St Paul’s bit about not causing the weaker brethren to stumble. In fact, I think that Gene Robinson should have graciously stood aside rather than cause the current wars in the Anglican Communion.
I’m also convinced that “weaker brethren” [...]