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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA , March 22, 2012, ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – The Archdiocese of Los Angeles ’  Religious Education Congress  bills itself as an “opportunity to hear God ’s voice in their own lives.” However, some of the  featured speakers  at the March 22-25 event, said to be the largest of its kind in the world, have described Barack Obama as “ pro-life ,” longed for “public models of gay priests,” opposed marriage protection legislation, and encouraged children to engage in “genital self-touch.” Neither  Tod M. Tamberg  nor Carolina Guevara, media representatives for the Archdiocese, responded to an e-mail from LifeSiteNews.com concerning allegations speakers at the REC deviate from the Church ’s teachings by supporting homosexual priests or masturbation. When LifeSiteNews called to follow-up, Tamberg insisted he did not receive the e-mail, then hung up on us. When asked about the e-mail, which was sent Thursday morning, Tamberg said rapidly: “Didn...

Image via Wikipedia The trouble with compromise is that it all too often pleases no-one and sounds both hypocritical and bizarre. Behind all the hullabaloo about gay priests and even possibly gay bishops , people have perhaps missed the fact that the C of E began compromising on this issue many years ago. It is quite simply untenable to allow one thing for ‘ordinary’ members of the church and another for its leaders. The church must jump one way or the other. Cultural relevance or biblical absolutes- they simply can’t have it both ways! the Guardian states  “The row may well signal an end to the unsatisfactory compromise enshrined in the 1991 House of Bishops statement, Issues in Human Sexuality – a document which stated that gay sexual relationships were allowable for the faithful laity, but wrong for the clergy. A dozen bishops are reliably reported to have persisted in appointing gay priests: the new Archbishop of Canterbury , Dr Rowan Williams , has made plain his unhapp...