The issue of Canon Robinson is so serious that the Archbishop of the Anglican Diocese of the West Indies, and Bishop of the Bahamas issued a statement affirming that "there are powerful biblical and theological arguments to justify the historic Christian understanding that sexually active homosexual relationships do not represent a faithful witness in chastity and holiness for disciples of Christ."
Anglicans in The Bahamas in the past have been very quiet about homosexual Priests, and it was believed that there was a quiet approval of this behaviour. Indeed an Englishman who practiced law in The Bahamas, who lived with his male lover, was ordained a Priest in Christ Church Cathedral many years ago. This Priest, who is now deceased, stunned many Bahamians when he was ordained.
Archbishop Gomez should be commended for the hard-line he has taken on the issue when he told the press that "no Diocesan Synod in our Province would countenance a gay bishop living in an openly sexual relationship outside of Christian marriage."
The issue of gays in the Priesthood has been brushed aside as hearsay by the establishment for far too long. While it is argued that the people in the United States of America and Europe are more tolerant on the issue because they are more advanced in this socialization, tolerance is one thing, but the acceptance of wrong is another. One can tolerate wrongdoing, without accepting it as proper behaviour.
A recent survey shows a growing generation gap overall between priests ordained in the '60s and '70s right after the Second Vatican Council and the much more orthodox younger generation of Priests. The two groups differed radically on their views of the status of a priest and on the church's sexual teachings."
Many people believe that the people of Caribbean and African countries would have a totally different position on Canon Robinson than people in the U.S. or Europe. As the American church and her priests adapt to the left-wing demand that they blend with society, we now face the ugliest part of that society which infiltrated the last bastion of peace, safety and decency.
The argument that Catholic men would not be homosexuals if they were allowed to marry has been shot down with the issue of Robinson. He was a married man who divorced his wife.
The suggestion that allowing priests to marry would attract more heterosexual men to the priesthood is also sully from another point of view. It presupposes that sex must be part of a priest's life, because, of course, sex must be a part of everyone's life. The projection here is mind-boggling. It's not the priesthood or sexual abstinence that causes men to sexually abuse adolescent boys. It's sexual compulsion among gay men.
Thinking people cannot deny the eerie coincidence of the emergence of active homosexuals in the priesthood from the classes that sprung from the most transformative time for the Left in America's history, a time when the black, gay and feminist civil-right movements made tremendous advances.
There is no doubt that there is an assault by the Left on our culture and values. Tammy Bruce, the author of "The New Thought Police", says, "As the Gay elite found Americans willing to tolerate and even accept their divergent lifestyle and point of view, they started exploiting that compassion. Thus began the furtherance of a campaign that, although promoted in the name of tolerance, understanding, and compassion, has nothing to do with acceptance of homosexuals and everything to do with eliminating the lines of decency and morality across the board."
Instead of being about tolerance and equal treatment under the law, today's gay movement now uses the language of rights to demand acceptance of the depraved, the damaged, and the malignantly narcissistic. Today's gay activists and their sympathizers have carried their campaign too far by wrapping themselves in the banner of tolerance.
By Wendall K. Jones, The Bahama Journal
