04/09/2008
Senior Anglican Minister Attacks Gay Australian Judge Michael Kirby
Openly gay Australian High Court judge Michael Kirby revealed at a forum on religious tolerance and homosexuality on Tuesday that he had been attacked by a senior Anglican minister over his sexuality:
"The rector of St Stephen's Church in Bellevue Hill, the Reverend Richard Lane, denounced the judge for calling himself a Christian Anglican while living in an openly gay relationship and warned as a 'messenger, watchman and steward of the Lord in the Anglican Church of Australia', he faced God's judgment. To call himself a Christian Anglican was a 'perversion of truth' and to continue to do so without changing his lifestyle would brand him, like Herod, a 'coward, a liar, a deceiver' and a 'lawless one'. 'I appeal to you to cast yourself on the mercy of Jesus … That is admit your sin, confess your wrongdoing and turn in humble repentance to the Lord Jesus, who alone can forgive you,' Mr Lane said."
Kirby replied that Lane had ignored the "central loving message of Jesus of the gospels". Said the judge: "To defy modern knowledge and to stick to uninformed interpretations is truly irrational. To do so selectively is specially so. It is a reason why the churches are losing rational adherents."
Posted 12:45 PM EST by Andy Towle in Anglican church, Australia, Michael Kirby, News, Religion | Permalink
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The Preists thinks that we can just drop what we are doing and find some Pussy to eat??
As a gay male I am comfortable with my anatomy and similar. I do not need to experiment with the female gender, there are too many physical differences not worth exploring. I wish these people would lay off. They ignore science to bolster their Harry Potter-like mythology.
Posted by: Ty Jones | Apr 9, 2008 1:51:59 PM
Lest this be taken as further evidence that Christians despise us, please note that this priest is from the Diocese of Sydney, a rabidly conservative enclave in worldwide Anglican Communion that is highly atypical. Anglicans outside of Africa and Southeast Asia are generally (not always, true, but generally) positive in their views toward GLBT people.
Posted by: Scott | Apr 9, 2008 4:27:38 PM
Has any one of these rabid anti gay clerics ever cited one passage in the Holy Bible that forbids being gay? I know the BS about man not lying with man as with women crap, that the ancient jewish mafia came up with. But what about being gay in a love relationship? For the sake of arguement, what if you are not lying with your man as with a woman? Ya'll are just sucking, kissin, fistin, rubbing and jackin and lovin the hell out of it. Where in the bible is that condemned? ....crickets chirping....
Posted by: Vi Agara | Apr 9, 2008 6:49:30 PM
Your consience tells you, its wrong and it is. So lets be honest, a person doing a gay sexual act for the first time would feel guilty, why, cause God gave them a conscience to tell them it is wrong.
I care for gay people and dont want to see them die, sex outside marriage is always dangerous with std's.
God has got a better life for you in Christ and be free from you sin, but if you don't want to repent the only other way is to stand guilty before God on judgement day and the wrath of God is upon you and hell is your reward.
"`If a man also lie with mankind as he lieth with a woman, both of them have
committed an abomination. They shall surely be put to death: their blood
shall be upon them. ...Leviticus 20:13
And they called unto Lot and said unto him, "Where are the men who came in
to thee this night? Bring them out unto us, that we may know them."
...Genesis 19:05
Now as they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city,
certain sons of Belial, beset the house round about and beat at the door,
and spoke to the master of the house, the old man, saying, "Bring forth the
man who came into thine house, that we may know him." ...Judges 19:22
And there were also sodomites in the land, and they did according to all the
abominations of the nations which the LORD cast out before the children of
Israel. ...1Kings 14:24
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women
changed the natural use into that which is against nature. ...Romans 1:26
And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in
their lust one toward another, men with men, working that which is unseemly,
and receiving in themselves that recompense for their error which was meet.
...Romans 1:27
Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God? Be
not deceived: Neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor the
effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, ...1Corinthians 6:09
for whoremongers, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for
menstealers, for liars, for perjurers, and for whatever else is contrary to
sound doctrine ...1Timothy 1:10
even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, in like manner giving
themselves over to fornication and going after strange flesh, are set forth
as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. ...Jude 1:07
Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying:
Thus saith the LORD of hosts: `Turn ye now from your evil ways and from your
evil doings.' But they did not hear, nor hearken unto Me, saith the LORD.
...Zechariah 1:04
Posted by: Pete | May 6, 2008 6:03:38 PM