Rev. Eugene Robinson is the gay Episcopalian whose ordination as bishop of New Hampshire has sparked a near-schism in the (US) Episcopal Church and in the global Anglican Communion. A story in today’s Boston Globe reports that Robinson has now endorsed one candidate for president in the next US election – Barack Obama. The story reads:
The public endorsement of Obama could set off even more uneasiness within the church, which has not been overtly involved in electoral politics.
No doubt. Will the Globe editorial board now vent it’s spleen over separation of church from politics? When a few Catholic bishops made noises in 2004 about denying the sacrament of communion to John Kerry, the Globe editors sternly warned them:
The church and its leaders have every right to join in political debate as long as they don't effectively endorse specific candidates, jeopardizing their tax-exempt status.
Gene Robinson has placed himself much farther into politics than did these bishops. Will the Globe editors show consistency and give Robinson the same tongue lashing that would be applied if the endorser was a Catholic bishop like Cardinal Sean O’Malley?
6 comments:
I suppose when you are deranged by belief in fantastical silliness paranoia such as this is inevitable. I think you are channeling Bill Donahue.
Uh-huh. And plummeting readership, massive red ink, and plunging circulation are all silly paranoia too. Only a kool-aid drinking Globe apostle (ooooooo...a religious word!!) would believe that these moribund metrics and the Globe's 'agenda' aren't locked together in the most perfect example of 'cause & effect.'
What the hell are "moribund metrics."?
For our Spanish-speaking viewers, 'bad numbers.'
I ams ure Harry is so proud to have fans that make such statements.
The benighted believers are beyond insult, but a gentle nudge at an evolving nombre de la conexión elicits a call to mommy? To call this hypocritical would be to begin a 20 comment post, so I will not.
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