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**DaKCMan AP** · 06-20-2006, 10:14 AM

New US church leader says homosexuality no sin

Mon Jun 19, 3:50 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.

Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, was elected on Sunday as the first woman leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church. the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. She will formally take office later this year.

Interviewed on CNN, Jefferts Schori was asked if it was a sin to be homosexual.

"I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said.

"Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender."

Jefferts Schori's election seemed certain to exacerbate splits within a Episcopal Church that is already deeply divided over homosexuality with several dioceses and parishes threatening to break away.

It could also widen divisions with other Anglican communities, including the Church of England, which do not allow women bishops. In the worldwide Anglican church women are bishops only in Canada, the United States and New Zealand.

Three years ago when the Church last met in convention, a majority of U.S. bishops backed the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history.

The Robinson issue has been particularly criticized in Africa where the church has a growing membership and where homosexuality is often taboo.

Jefferts Schori, who was raised a Roman Catholic and graduated in marine biology with a doctorate specialization in squids and oysters, supported the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first openly gay bishop in more than 450 years of Anglican history.

The 52-year-old bishop is married to Richard Schori, a retired theoretical mathematician. They have one daughter, Katharine Johanna, 24, a second lieutenant in the U.S. Air Force and a pilot like her mother.

Asked how she reconciled her position on homosexuality with specific passages in the Bible declaring sexual relations between men an abomination, Jefferts Schori said the Bible was written in a very different historical context by people asking different questions.

"The Bible has a great deal to teach us about how to live as human beings. The Bible does not have so much to teach us about what sorts of food to eat, what sorts of clothes to wear -- there are rules in the Bible about those that we don't observe today," she said.

"The Bible tells us about how to treat other human beings, and that's certainly the great message of Jesus -- to include the unincluded."

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Mr. Laz · 06-20-2006, 10:34 AM

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Originally Posted by luv

I don't trust any woman that is in a leadership role at a church (church, not sunday school class or women's outreach ministries). There are also passages in the bible about that, too.

sexist

**luv** · 06-20-2006, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by Brock

What exactly are your beliefs? "I think I read somewhere in the bible that maybe women shouldn't be ministers"?

I'm not sure, but I think it's in James where it talks about deacons and such being the husband of one wife. How is a woman a husband of one wife?

BIG_DADDY · 06-20-2006, 10:37 AM

Who really gives a **** what this stupid box thinks?

vailpass · 06-20-2006, 10:38 AM

She only represents a portion of the Episcopal church. Upon news of her election several US factions wrote to the Episcopalian boss in England asking to be placed under the leadership of another bishop.

Theirs is a house divided and I see now way, short of a wholesale splintering, for them to ever get it together and move forward.

Mr. Laz · 06-20-2006, 10:38 AM

"The swine, though he divide the hoof, and be cloven-footed, yet he cheweth not the cud; he is unclean to you."

Mr. Laz · 06-20-2006, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

Who really gives a **** what this stupid box thinks?

bet you would if she was pimping pitbulls.

Radar Chief · 06-20-2006, 10:39 AM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

Who really gives a **** what this stupid box thinks?

Probably gays.

BIG_DADDY · 06-20-2006, 10:40 AM

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Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Probably gays.

Oh yea I forgot about the ghey planet. Forgive me.

**BigMeatballDave** · 06-20-2006, 10:41 AM

I don't know if it is a 'sin' or not, but it ain't 'normal' behavior. Having said that, I don't give a shit what bundle of stickss do in the privacy of their own homes...

**BigMeatballDave** · 06-20-2006, 10:42 AM

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Originally Posted by BigChiefDave

I don't know if it is a 'sin' or not, but it ain't 'normal' behavior. Having said that, I don't give a shit what Rump Rangers do in the privacy of their own homes...

That is a good filter for F.ags...

Radar Chief · 06-20-2006, 10:43 AM

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Originally Posted by BIG_DADDY

Oh yea I forgot about the ghey planet. Forgive me.

That’s all right. You’ve even admitted to be’n partially ghey, lesbian stuck in a mans body, right?

ROYC75 · 06-20-2006, 10:44 AM

OK, I just back from making a triple batch of popcorn, what did I miss ?

BIG_DADDY · 06-20-2006, 10:45 AM

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Originally Posted by Laz

bet you would if she was pimping pitbulls.

She is just eyeing up some sweet little 18 year old with a killer rack, fat box and nice chops out there in her congegation asking herself how she can pull this off without losing her job.

BIG_DADDY · 06-20-2006, 10:53 AM

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Originally Posted by Radar Chief

That’s all right. You’ve even admitted to be’n partially ghey, lesbian stuck in a mans body, right?

You got it.

I am just bored with it all and tired of hearing about it. The gay movement continues to advance and they they get more rights all the time. They should have equal rights in the eyes of the state IMO. However, various religions and the schools should not be forced to promote their agenda. That's when their rights cross the line and infringe on other people's rights. Like I said before they won't be happy until pole smoking and carpet munching are classes taught to same age 5 year olds in school.

Hammock Parties · 06-20-2006, 10:54 AM

There are no gays that want sexual practices taught in school.

06-20-2006, 10:14 AM
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