Gene Robinson on University of Kent campus ‘dawn to dusk’

Posted on July 23, 2008 
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Gene RobinsonHere are some extracts from today’s report by Cherie Wetzel for Anglicans United and Latimer Press —

I heard several different people report from the American provincial meeting held on Monday afternoon, that our bishops are finding it difficult to encounter so many disagreeable attitudes towards them. In short, they are wondering why they are disliked (some said ‘hated’) so strongly by so many bishops from other provinces.

And folks, they “don’t get it.” …

Their efforts to tell the others that there is nothing wrong with the American church and that we are not in turmoil and/or crisis is falling on deaf ears. …

Yesterday at the ad hoc press conference with Archbishop Deng Bul of the Sudan, the Episcopal News Service correspondent here asked if he had spoken with Gene Robinson. When he replied “No”, she asked if he would like to.

That’s when the archbishop replied, “We will not talk to Gene Robinson or listen to him or his testimony. He has to confess, receive forgiveness and leave. Then we will talk. You cannot bring the listening to gay people to our Communion. People who do not believe in the Bible are left out of our churches, not invited in to tell us why they don’t believe.”

The gay press people and gay advocates are here en masse. Gene Robinson is on the campus of this Conference from dawn to dusk, with events planned every evening – last evening he spoke at the Law School – and many of these sessions are by invitation only. There is no secret that they are here to inform and convert. Their daily newspaper is found in every building on the campus. The American bishops talked about moving the location of their next provincial meeting so Gene can come, which means a non-restricted area on the campus, such as a cafeteria or green space, outside the watchful eyes of Kent Campus Security.

And so, the schizophrenia continues. …

– Read the whole report here.
(Photo of Gene Robinson at a ‘Changing Attitude / Integrity Eucharist’ in Canterbury: Episcopal News Service/Mike Collins)