For those of you who didn’t follow the ordination of Bishop Robinson and the vast war it set off within the Episcopal Church, here is the latest salvo. What is sad that he’s been made a martyr due to his sexual orientation, not because the real reason he was opposed, he has terrible theology as is shown below:

Robinson, who left his wife – and mother of his two daughters – to cohabit with his male lover, Mark, made his inflammatory remarks during an address titled, “Homosexuality and the Body of Christ: Is There a New Way?” at Christ Church of Hamilton and Wenham, Massachusetts. The bishop was asked by a congregant how Christians could both accept homosexuality and the Bible’s emphasis on redemption for sins.

“Interestingly enough, in this day of traditional family values,” answered Robinson, “this man that we follow was single, as far as we know, traveled with a bunch of men, had a disciple who was known as ‘the one whom Jesus loved’ and said my family is not my mother and father, my family is those who do the will of God. None of us likes those harsh words. That’s who Jesus is, that’s who he was at heart, in his earthly life. “

It gets even worse:
“Those who would posit the nuclear family as the be all and end all of God’s creation probably don’t find that much in the gospels to support it,” he concluded.

The funny thing about all this is that the churches that go the way of heretical liberal theology end up losing parishoners by the boat loads where the fastest growing churches (charismatic, evangelical, charismatic Catholic) stick to the traditional Christian orthodoxy.