Episcopal church ordains its 2nd openly gay bishop; a woman this time!

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_re_us/us_episcopal_bishops
AP

LONG BEACH, Calif. – Seven years after the Episcopal Church caused an uproar by consecrating its first openly gay bishop, it has done the same thing again — only this time with a woman.

The Rev. Canon Mary Glasspool, of Baltimore, was ordained and consecrated on Saturday, making her the second openly gay bishop in church history and one of the first two female bishops in the Diocese of Los Angeles' 114-year history.

She was installed at Long Beach Arena before 3,000 people, who burst into applause at the end, church spokesman Bob Williams said.

Just before the ceremony began, a man stood, shouted about the need to repent and held up a sign that read "Do not be deceived, homosexuals will not inherit the kingdom of God."
After he was escorted out, a young boy in the same section rose holding a Bible and shouted similar slogans. Security guards also led him out.


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Good for her! I'm sure she kept her cool even when the man and child (who was brainwashed into his hate by the man, I'm sure!) both stood up one after the other. These people are brave and breaking ground, and I'm happy for them!

What ticks me off in the comment sections, story after story, is the amount of votes the vile comments get. It never really changes, there's ton of hatred against GLBTers, and I scoff at the people who tell me 'you're not persecuted at all, it's shoved down our faces', because we are very much hated - very much. When you've got, say, half of society, disgusted by you, that's over 100 million Americans, and billions worldwide that judge GAY people for simply being Gay... Sick...


Just look at a few mostly hateful comments after their respective votes of approval or disapproval. Note: the 1st person is named PeaceOut and has a peace symbol as their avatar! And this was just from the 1st page of comments, there's over 100 pages of comments already, on just Yahoo! -----




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Peace out Wed Mar 17, 2010 04:05 pm

Not a good idea to have gays run the church.




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Matthew Wed Mar 17, 2010 04:41 pm

Its nice too see that a religious group finally recognizes a person for their devotion to Christ and its people and not their sexual preference in life. We are all made in the image and likeness of God. As long as a person leads a good life and has a dedication to doing God's work, where is the damage. What is wrong with the people in this world.




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Sugar's dad Wed Mar 17, 2010 04:48 pm

Join the Episcopal Church no matter what your beliefs as they do not believe in anything. I am sure they will follow Caligula and appoint a horse as Bishop




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help I am being held captivebyhaters Wed Mar 17, 2010 06:13 pm

gays are the opening to beging forced by liberal government to accept sexual perversions of all natures. If I am forced to accept gays how long can it be before will I also be forced to accept polgamists, phedophiles, beastiality, and the ability to marry my sofa. You say ti wont ever happen well thirty or forty years ago It was promised a personI would not have to change their belief that homosexuality was a deviant practice not accepted by GOD. Now I am being told oh you are intolerent and must accept the new truth as we the liberals see it. Well, see you hell you heretics and to the atheists, there is a special place in hell for non believers. Take your smores you are gonna need them.




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catmandu82 Wed Mar 17, 2010 06:18 pm

Get Real!!! I would rather have a Openly Gay Episcopal Bishop than a Catholic Priest that hides behind the Robe and the Cross and Molesting little Kids in private.





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Peace out Wed Mar 17, 2010 06:34 pm

Hey get real, I would'nt want to see either.




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Shawn L Wed Mar 17, 2010 06:42 pm

Well, on one hand, homosexuality, the act of two individuals of the same sex having intercourse, irrefutably decried in all Biblical references. Sure, the argument has been made against it's denouncement in so far as the Old Testament books of Law are concerned and that it's just "one more arbitrary law we can just ignore" but it's the same man who cited the non-application of such laws in the Book of Acts, Paul, who also went on to affirm it's status in his letter to the Romans.

On top of that, however, Paul was a strict sexist who also penned the phrase, "do not suffer a woman to teach." All but the most introverted societies ignore that little gem, but there are arguments on both sides.

Ultimately, it's for this specific church to decide it's own stance, and if the parishioners agree, then the ruling will stand. If they all seek their religion elsewhere in light of this, or express outrage in sufficient amounts, the ruling will be retracted, plain and simple. As this is the church's second appointment, however, I see this ending in the former.




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Kfjgwegfjcvg Wed Mar 17, 2010 06:43 pm

LETS ALL THAKE A LESSON FROM THE CATHOLIC CHURCH. HOMOSEXUAL PRIESTS, CROSS DRESSING PRIESTS, PRIESTS THAT BELIEVE GAY IS OK, HAVE HURT ALOT OF CHILDREN




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The Great Frybread King Wed Mar 17, 2010 06:43 pm

Good job, Episcopal Church. It's nice to see a religous organization that embraces the concepts of equality and respect for all people. This really makes the fake-Christian right-wing fascists angry.

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1. Which leads me to wonder seriously,

when our species will mature enough that issues about a common and basic drive like sexuality that obviously expresses itself, (like life) in variable ways, (as if life is experimenting and staying open-ended) are no longer so prevalent that there has to be a diversion of our limited energy, (law of conservation) towards public debate for the pro or for the con.

Seriously, I don't mean to be condescending at all when I observe that, collectively, both the vox populai and those that represent sound like they are in a ridiculously immature, teenage debate about an easily understood fact of life ... a given. We are naked under our clothes and we are either hard-wired or somehow programmed and inspired to express a bona fide reproductive urge in many ways, just like stories and movies and religions, et al.

How simply could one express this ridiculous and embarrassing flaw in our development to date? Our technology has exceeded our capacity to deal with it and now, it seems so has our increasingly tenuous grasp on morality and ethics. If we keep it up, we all will be so wrong about everything that matters, (and argue or defend it to the death) that nothing much of intrinsic value will survive the great battle of the "straw man" that represents our collective avoidance of maturation.

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2. good points

teenage debate over an easily understood fact of life is right. I made a post a while back about how the things someone may care most about in life, having a child, their faith or belief, and, being able to be appointed to discuss/teach it, seem to be the thins that closed minds want to strip from their fellow human beings.

I don't know where their brains/hearts went wrong, but it's through a cold upbringing and fear of expression/intelligence, and it represented itself in that small boy that stood up after the man was taken out by security. He more than likely was taught to hate by that immature male.

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3. It's good to be an episcopalian. Nt