{"id":225,"date":"2003-10-12T23:14:50","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T23:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=225"},"modified":"2003-10-12T23:14:50","modified_gmt":"2003-10-12T23:14:50","slug":"i_have_always_had_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=225","title":{"rendered":"I have always had a"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have always had a nagging sense that once my discernment process concluded, once I was declared a Postulant, then through my seminary education, through Candidacy, only to come to the end and be told I will not be ordained.  Everyone over the last four years have told me I have nothing to worry about.  My diocese is electing a new bishop in a month.  Again, I was assured that the selection committee would not put forward for election someone who did not support ordination of gay people.<br \/>\nOkay.  I still have the nagging feeling.  Recently, there came a news report from the BBC.  Here it is:<br \/>\n<tt><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/makeashorterlink.com\/?T5CF16F26\">http:\/\/makeashorterlink.com\/?T5CF16F26<\/a><br \/>\nLooks like BBC conducted a survey of all the Primates prior to the Lambeth meeting...<br \/>\n******************************<br \/>\nChurch leaders to urge gay priests ban<br \/>\n16:59 - 12 October 2003<br \/>\nAnglican Church leaders will be sharply divided at a special meeting to discuss homosexuality this week, according to a survey.<br \/>\nAll 38 primates from around the world are due to attend a meeting at Lambeth Palace, London, on Wednesday and Thursday to consider the controversial issue of gay priests.<br \/>\nThere were calls recently for the US branch of the church to be excluded from the international communion after Gene Robinson was appointed as the first openly gay bishop.<br \/>\nIn this country, Canon Jeffrey John was nominated for the post of Bishop of Reading in June, but later withdrew after controversy over his sexuality.<br \/>\nA BBC survey found that three-quarters of the primates would not allow homosexuals to become priests in their province.<br \/>\nAsian and African church leaders also plan to use the meeting, hosted by the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr. Rowan Williams, to push for a ban on homosexual priests throughout the Anglican communion, the poll revealed.<br \/>\nThe BBC's World This Weekend programme contacted every primate in the communion, and received 17 responses. Only four said they would accept homosexuality among priests in their church province.<br \/>\nA spokesman for the Archbishop of Nigeria, Peter Akinola, told the programme it was a matter of dealing with the \"errant few\".<br \/>\n\"It is a departure from the teachings handed down from the fathers of faith and the Word of God in the holy scriptures,\" he added.<br \/>\nThe Anglican communion has 80 million members worldwide.<br \/>\n<\/tt><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am still perplexed why there has been no counter argument from scripture against those who claim inclusionists have departed from the authority of scripture.  I came to belief that homosexual relationships are not forbidden by God BECAUSE of scripture, not by denying scripture.  So, why are liberals not making arguments  to engage prohibitionists from scripture?  I hope the accusations are not true &#8211; that liberals really have denied the authority of scripture.<br \/>\nThe funny thing, if that is true, is that this evangelically minded person, because of scripture, is an inclusionist.  I still wonder whether I will ever be ordained.<br \/>\ncomments?  <a href=\"mailto:bob@hypersync.net\" title=\"e-mail me\">e-mail me<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have always had a nagging sense that once my discernment process concluded, once I was declared a Postulant, then through my seminary education, through Candidacy, only to come to the end and be told I will not be ordained. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=225\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=225"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}