THE GREAT ANGLICAN REALIGNMENT

COMMENTARY

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
Sept 24, 2009


The time is fast approaching, and might well be upon us, when we who are faithful to the gospel and Holy Scripture will thank Bishop V. Gene Robinson for what he has achieved.

No bishop, priest or lay person has galvanized a church more in six years than this one man. As a practicing homosexual and a bishop he has brought clarity like no other person. It has been a singular and remarkable achievement, recognized not just by Episcopalians and Anglicans around the world, but by other denominations of various liberal stripes. A sitting president of the United States included Robinson in inauguration ceremonies.

The homo-genital bishop of New Hampshire has brought clarity to the world stage of Anglicanism that is breath taking in its breadth and magnitude.

He has been so successful that he has, almost single-handedly, divided the Anglican Communion. He has forced the Archbishop of Canterbury into a corner from which there seems little way out except to offer a "two-track" solution that might, at the end of the day, be no solution at all. The Windsor Report is dead. A Covenant seems less likely as the months pass with few agreeing on its content. Any attempts at discipline of the errant bishop and his denomination are met with ridicule and scorn.

It is any wonder that the pansexual organization Integrity ran up the flag declaring General Convention 2009 a victory for all things sexual? "Integrity Celebrates Virtual Clean Sweep on GC2009 Legislative Agenda" http://tinyurl.com/m72qma Heterosexual sex within the confines of marriage between a man and a woman is officially dead or at least just one option among many. The new sexual order is lesbi/gay, bi-sexual and transgender.

The Episcopal Church is now officially the "Gay Church" of America and we have Gene Robinson to thank for this. While there have been other notable homosexuals in secular literature and politics, and not a few Episcopal bishops, priests and laity, it took "courage" for Robinson to out himself and make it all official.

He has enshrined narcissism as acceptable, whining in public lectures and books while daring anyone to defy him on his personal behavior. He has caused bishops and prelates to cower before him groveling in mortification at their failure to behold his superior sexuality. Mea culpa, mea culpa mea maxima culpa.

He has gone where no bishop has gone before and he has done it with the surety that he will, in the end, win the culture wars.

His was not a Calvary Road, however, only the faux crucifixion on the Phallic Cross of his own desires wrapped tightly in the condoms of prevention.

There are no nail-pierced hands or "riven side flowing with blood" on which to gaze in awe causing sinners to sink to their knees in adoration, confession and repentance. The new sexual cross of personal fulfillment will have none of it.

We must all now bow before Robinson who has brought sexual enlightenment to the masses, especially Episcopalians, defying 7000 years of Scripture, theology and history. Fiat Lux.

And so the Great Realignment has begun, thanks to Bishop Robinson.

Who would have thought that a 'mere bishop' from Pittsburgh could galvanize 28 ecclesiastical jurisdictions and 100,000 Anglican souls, more bent on arguing with each other over such weighty issues as women's ordination, sacramental theology and more, into forming a new province in the Anglican Communion? Such a thing, should you have mentioned it in 2003, would have seen you laughed out of court. (The St. Louis Convention brought about 58 Anglican subdivisions). Not this time. Robinson has made the impossible, possible.

It is not just the Anglican Church in North America (ACNA) that is now a reality. We have GAFCON and the growing Fellowship of Confessing Anglicans spreading like wild fire across the globe defying the old order, holding conventions, and declaring the faith and true Anglican Way.

None of this would have happened without Gene Robinson. He has been the catalyst for change. This sort of action has not been seen since Henry VIII divorced his wife, married a strumpet and then beheaded her.

In the end we will thank Robinson in much the same way we thank the Borgia Popes for giving us Martin Luther who brought the Reformation gospel of God's free grace to us all. It is clear that the Protestant movement was not simply the result of (only) Leo X. Its roots can be found in the extreme corruption, violence and perversion of faith in the Borgia period.

So too with Robinson. Sexual liberation has brought about a swath of death and destruction in the lives of millions of Americans dating back from the Sixties.

No matter, Robinson has legitimized it all, bringing "freedom" and "hope" to persons caught in the downward spiral of self-loathing and hatred. With drugs, death may now be delayed indefinitely.

Robinson has "won" and so the Grand Realignment of the Anglican Communion has started.

Thank you Bishop Robinson.

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