{"id":1806,"date":"2007-09-10T03:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-09-10T03:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/the_bishop_of_canberra_and_goulburn_warns_against_an_undue_focus_on_the_sam\/"},"modified":"2007-09-10T03:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-09-10T03:34:00","slug":"the_bishop_of_canberra_and_goulburn_warns_against_an_undue_focus_on_the_sam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=1806","title":{"rendered":"The Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn Warns against an Undue Focus on the Same Sex Union Issue"},"content":{"rendered":"

From the Canberra Times<\/a>:<\/p>\n

”Even at home, by pressing this debate will it enable the voice of the gospel to be heard more widely in Australian society, to be respected more intensely, to be understood more thoroughly I think not.” Bishop [George] Browning said he did not mean the matter was not important, or that people did not have the right to strongly-held views. ”But will this debate open wider the gates that lead to everlasting life. I am afraid not.” He was speaking at the Synod Eucharist service in St Saviour’s Cathedral during the annual meeting of the synod of his diocese. He said those about whom Jesus had been extremely critical had taken a passage or passages of scripture and turned them into an idol. ”They had made their interpretation of the law of the Sabbath the litmus test by which virtue and righteousness was to be judged, indeed that by which all human behaviour, however virtuous or evil, was to be judged.” There were parallels today, with religious people taking a passage or passages of scripture and turning them into a litmus test for all. ”In our beloved Anglican Communion, a litmus test has been set and whether any of us like it or not, we are apparently to be judged by it.” In coming months, there would be an increasing commentary in the press about those bishops who were or were not going to next year’s Lambeth Conference. Those who would stay away if others attended, and those who would attend if others stayed away.<\/p>\n

”All legitimate bishops in the Communion should attend the Lambeth Conference,” Bishop Browning said. ”We need to be challenged by one another and to try to understand each other.”
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From the Canberra Times: ”Even at home, by pressing this debate will it enable the voice of the gospel to be heard more widely in Australian society, to be respected more intensely, to be understood more thoroughly I think not.”…<\/span><\/p>\n

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