Kendall Harmon, canon theologian for the Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina, said it’s “part of our duty as Christians” to forgive Sanford. But it will be a particularly difficult process for those who saw him as a presidential hopeful, he said.
“I feel like there was a lot of hope in him, so I think the disillusionment is that much greater,” he said.
But people should reserve judgment, because there “but for the grace of God go all the rest of us,” Harmon said.
“The story of David and Bathsheba is in the Bible for a reason,” he said, a reference to the story of an adulterous relationship between the king of Israel and the wife of a soldier. “People’s naivety about their vulnerability to these kinds of problems boggles my mind.”
Re: “The story of David and Bathsheba is in the Bible for a reason,†he said, a reference to the story of an adulterous relationship between the king of Israel and the wife of a soldier. “People’s naivety about their vulnerability to these kinds of problems boggles my mind.â€
I wish Father Harmon would present a whole sermon on this. My church won’t touch the subject with a ten foot pole and marriages disintegrate more often than they should.
[i] Slightly edited by elf. [/i]
CBH writes: I believe homosexuality is merely a sub-category to the real problems the people of our churches face.
I am unaware that homosexuality is a part of Governor Sanford’s story.
I would have a lot to say, CBH in #1. I spoke a number of years ago now at a mens conference, and having prayed about the topic to address, I decided to talk on sex, money and power. In my small group after the first talk, one of the men said that was the first talk on sex he had ever heard while he was in the Episcopal Church.
Houston, we have a problem.