‘Not to Destruction, but to Salvation’
Posted on September 13, 2008
Filed under Opinion
The most senior California bishops of the Episcopal Church came out in favour of same-sex marriage in the state on Wednesday. The bishops then called on voters to defeat Proposition 8 – the constitutional amendment that would define marriage as the union of a man and a woman. …
Those beautiful words [in the Prayer Book Consecration service], “not to destruction, but to salvation,” take on a deadly significance in the case of these bishops. They are leading their own church to destruction, and encouraging in the larger society what the Bible condemns as sin. These are shepherds who are leading their own flocks right off a cliff.
– Al Mohler writes on the Diocese of California’s stand in favour of same-sex marriage.
(Photo of Bishop Marc Andrus: Diocese of California.)
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