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Conservatives politicians and bible believing churches see same-sex marriage as incompatible with what they regard as the traditional definition of a union between a man and a woman. In fact, followers of Christ see gay marriage as disordered love, empowered by demonic forces to destroy Holy matrimony. Others on the radical left do not see the point in fighting for something they keep saying is inherently flawed. There is no doubt that marriage today doesn't match Christian marriage ideals especially with marriage being based on feeling rather than covenant and easy divorce. The radical left see marriage as a conservative institution that has long been used as a tool of oppression, power and the oppression of women . The LGBTQ people pushed gay marriage to make gay people fit into cookie-cutter relationships that makes their love more palatable to society. This critique is known as "assimilation". Unfortunately, it fails with people of faith. It succeed...

Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire at Trinity Church, Columbus, Ohio,  The first openly gay Episcopal bishop, who became a symbol for gay rights far beyond the church while deeply dividing the world's Anglicans , plans to divorce his husband. Bishop V. Gene Robinson announced the end of his marriage to Mark Andrew in an email sent to the Diocese of New Hampshire , where he served for nine years before retiring in 2012. Robinson would not disclose details about the end of their 25-year relationship but   wrote Sunday   in the Daily Beast that he owed a debt to Andrew "for standing by me through the challenges of the last decade." "It is at least a small comfort to me, as a gay rights and marriage equality advocate, to know that like any marriage, gay and lesbian couples are subject to the same complications and hardships that afflict marriages between heterosexual couples," Robinson wrote. "All of us sincerely intend, when we take our wedding...

English: Shield of the US Episcopal Church, colors from http://www.episcopalchurch.org/imageshop_11785_ENG_HTM.htm. The shield was adopted in 1940. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The heads of Anglican Churches meeting in Canterbury, England have imposed “consequences” on the Episcopal Church (their American branch) for adopting same sex marriage. The US -based church has been to withdraw their representatives from Anglican meetings. The issue of homosexuality has divided the Anglican Communion since 2003 when an openly gay bishop was elected in New Hampshire . An official statement from the gathering of “Primates” (leaders of national churches around the world) says “Recent developments in The Episcopal Church with respect to a change in their Canon on marriage represent a fundamental departure from the faith and teaching held by the majority of our Provinces on the doctrine of marriage. Possible developments in other Provinces could further exacerbate this situation.” A key sec...

The presiding bishop of the U.S. Episcopal Church says that his denomination will not repent of accepting same-sex "marriage." Presiding Bishop Michael Curry , the first African- American to lead U.S. Episcopalians, told leading Anglican archbishops meeting in England that despite recent sanctions imposed by Anglican leadership, the U.S. branch will not reverse its decision to approve of homosexuality. "They heard from me directly that that's not something that we're considering," Curry said. "We made our decision, and this is who we are." The leaders of the worldwide Anglican Communion   suspended   the U.S. Episcopal Church for three years over the issue. The primates of 38 Anglican churches throughout the world voted to bar the U.S. Episcopal Church from representing the denomination on ecumenical and interfaith organizations and from taking part in Anglican decision-making on any issues pertaining to doctrine or polity. In th...

According to Wikipedia, the Anglican Communion , which consists of the Church of England and those churches in other countries that are in full communion with it, has 80 million members. Statistically-speaking, the name “Anglican,” as in “England,” is a misnomer. It should be more properly named the “African Communion.” As historian Philip Jenkins has noted, the typical Anglican is not a middle-to-upper-class Englishman, but instead, a poor African woman. Demographic diversity poses no threat to the Anglican Communion. On the contrary, it has revitalized Anglicanism even as membership and participation has declined precipitously in England and North America. What poses a major threat, however, is theological diversity, a.k.a., apostasy and heresy, courtesy of the American Episcopal Church. A recent story in Britain’s Daily Mail told readers that Church leaders from Africa and Asia, led by Bishops from Nigeria, Kenya, and Uganda, “are threatening to walk out of a crucial...

After the denomination approved homosexual "marriage" and even approved a homosexual wedding rite, one Episcopal bishop still says "no." The Right Reverend John C. Bauerschmidt, bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Tennessee , has written a pastoral letter explaining that there will be no gay "marriage" under his watch. "The General Convention of the Episcopal Church authorized provisional rites for the blessing of same sex relationships, which might be used for the blessing of these relationships in churches under the direction and with the permission of the local bishop," Rev. Bauerschmidt wrote. "I have not given direction or permission for the use of these rites. This policy remains unchanged." In his statement, the Tennessee bishop also said that while the concept of civil marriage has interplay between church and state, marriage is an institution "that predates any civil code." "No justice or legislatur...

Bishop Gene Robinson of New Hampshire at Trinity Church, Columbus, Ohio, on June 16, 2006, during the 75th General Convention of the Episcopal Church. Image cropped and color adjusted by Angr. (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) The bishops of the U.S. Episcopal Church gave the green light last week for clergy to perform same-sex “weddings,” in a heavily-debated fundamental change set to come in the door incrementally. As of November 1 of this year homosexual couples will have the right to be “married” in the church, the result of new liturgies for same-sex couples approved Wednesday at the denomination’s General Convention in Salt Lake City . The bishops also accepted changing the church’s canons (rules) governing marriage, to make them gender neutral, thus replacing the terms “man and woman” with “couple.” Episcopal clergy however, will be allowed to refuse to perform a homosexual “marriage” with the promise they would not be penalized, and individual bishops were also given the righ...