Here are a few items I ran across the other day… yeah, I blog about this stuff too much, while I mull over real-world blogfodder. I am in some ways coming around to the point of view expressed by a Canadian columnist:
Sin of hypocrisy
I suppose I should be charitable to those who are splitting my church but that’s too much to ask. There isn’t, I daresay, a single one of them who is without sin — many of whom, like divorced persons, are ongoing sinners. These defectors are hypocrites. Their sin is OK but the conduct of gays, which if sinful (a big “if”) doesn’t even rank in the top 10 sins, is cause for a schism.
Make no mistake about it — this is homophobia in spite of tendentious pleas from the rebels that they simply want the church to return to “traditional” ways. Wavering Anglican though I am, I think I speak for a lot of members in saying that’s a load of barnyard droppings and the rebels deserve our thanks for so dramatically lowering the level of hypocrisy in all our parishes.
And, oh yes . . . good riddance.