Letter to the Editor re: gay Episcopal Bishop

[Bertha Venation]

Letter to the editor, regarding the openly gay Episcopal/Anglican bishop:

The actions taken by the New Hampshire Episcopalians are an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional Christian marriage.

(on edit: this isn't mine. I got it from an email. I wish I could take credit.)

[Fenris]

1. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A church history joke! FINALLY!

[supernova]

2. ROFL!!

That's priceless!! Good one, Bertha Venation! :thumbsup:

[Rainbowreflect]

3. Do you think that might just go right ove the freeper's heads?

I love it.

[supernova]

6. Quite likely

having a sense of history is not one of their finer attributes.

[grannylib]

4. ROTFLMAO....hee hee, this is great

[Bertha Venation]

5. kick

:kick:

[regnaD kciN]

7. Sigh. For the 1,300th time...

...Henry VIII did not "found" the Church of England or Anglicanism in general. The bishops of the English provinces of the Catholic Church, certainly with Henry's strong "persuasion," broke off relations with Rome over a jurisdictional dispute concerning where the King's petition for an annulment (not a divorce) of his first marriage would be heard.

Although the English Church was separated from the rest of Catholicism during the reigns of Henry and his son Edward, once Queen ("Bloody") Mary assumed the throne, it submitted to the Pope and became a normal part of the Roman Catholic Church. It only split a second, and so far final, time after Mary's death, when Elizabeth I became Queen.

So far, my favorite letter on the +Robinson issue came from a foaming-at-the-mouth traditionalist from my own diocese, who wrote to our paper that right and wrong in this controvery are very clear. Why, he writes, all you have to do is look at the "plain words" of Scripture to get the obvious answer. He then provides a citation from Scripture which is totally inaccurate -- I guess he was too busy waving the Bible around to actually bother to read it...

:eyes:

[Bertha Venation]

9. Sigh.

Yet another point (not to mention humor for its own sake) sails over the head of the pedantic. No offense meant, JD, but please... gimme a break. Facts or the lack thereof never bothered the Chicken Littles running around crying about the destruction of the church.

The letter from the person in your church sounds about like most of the others I've read. Fundamentalists are so blinded by "faith" that they can't see common sense.

[roguevalley]

8. somebody is brilliant.

my hat is off to them.