The schism forced upon Christianity by homosexual militants is something that should be a signal to all people of conscience to stop taking for granted that that the word, "God" means the same to all people. If you are one of us who see a direct correlation between natural law and the meaning of the word, "God," you will be aware of something inherently corrupt in the idea every idea about God has equal validity and that God's love for self-avowed homosexuals is the same as approval of self-avowed homosexuals. Of course, God does love all people, including homosexuals, pedophiles, rapists, murderers, and thieves. But it is obvious that God does not approve of the behavior of those who violate natural law, and even thumb their noses at natural.

The beauty of the U.S. COnstitution is that it is based on a secular system of justice that is, in turn, based on natural law in order for those who are willing to abide by the law to protect themselves from the behavior of those who do not. That means that society has a right to take action to remove those whose behavior is found to endanger the safety and happiness of others from society. Society can pass judgement on such people based on the guidelines of the Constitution, though it is up to those judged to seek forgiveness directly from God, as only God can.

In today's San Francisco Chronicle, there is another article of a who parade of articles regarding news about the schism imposed on Christianity by homosexual militants. I will include it below with editing which replaces the term, "gay rights," with "homosexual militants." You will notice how that simple change in wording makes a giant difference! Unfortunately, the people who control the media don't have the integrity to use words that reflect the facts on the schism.



Homosexual Militancy a Hot Topic At Anglicans Meeting World, conservative leaders
disagree with U.S. liberals

Don Lattin, Chronicle Religion Writer
Friday, March 2, 2001

Amid a growing schism over homosexual militancy, the top 38 leaders of the worldwide Anglican church will gather at a retreat center in the North Carolina mountains today for eight days of prayer and politics.

According to the Archbishop of Canterbury, the
Rev. George Carey, the private meeting will be a
time of "spiritual refreshment" for the presiding
bishops of the 70 million-strong Anglican Communion, including the U.S. Episcopal Church.
Others envision a less serene gathering.

They say conservative Anglican primates from
Africa and South America -- upset over a gay rights crusade in the Episcopal Church -- will attempt an unprecedented crackdown on their liberal North American brethren.

Conservatives here and abroad are upset over the
increasing number of openly militant self-avowed priests in the Episcopal Church, along with the performance of "holy union" church ceremonies for self-avowed homosexual couples.

ANATOMY OF A STANDOFF

"The adamant bishops will come and try to get
control early. They'll be all lathered up and want heads to roll," said Bishop William Swing, spiritual leader of the San Francisco-based Diocese of California.

"Then the other side will say, 'Wait. Let me tell you about what's really going on in our churches.' Then there'll be a standoff, and a and say, 'Listen, the church has 40,000 important
things it needs to do, and some of you are just obsessed with sex. Can we get off sex and do the whole work of the church?' "

Swing won't be at the meeting -- the sole U.S.
representative will be Presiding Episcopal Bishop
Frank Griswold -- but the San Francisco bishop
bases his scenario on private reports of a previous gathering of the primates, or leading bishops, last May in Portugal.

In recent years, bishops like Swing and Griswold --those from the United States, Great Britain and
other Western nations -- find themselves in the
minority in the worldwide Anglican Communion.
Rapid church growth in Africa and Asia has shifted the balance of power in a global body of worshipers once ruled by the Church of England.

"On any Sunday morning, there are more Anglicans
going to church in Nigeria than in the Episcopal
Church and the Church of England put together,"
said Ian Douglas, an associate professor of world
mission and global Christianity at the Episcopal
Divinity School in Cambridge, Ma. "We've gone
from being a white, Western-identified church to a church of the south."

UNITED AGAINST HOMOSEXUAL MILITANCY

In recent years, conservative Episcopalians in the U.S. have sought to forge a new alliance with
bishops from Africa and other developing countries-- convinced that they share a common opposition to homosexual militancy.

"Many orthodox Episcopalians are intensely
frustrated and discouraged by the state of our
church," said David Anderson, president of the
American Anglican Council.

His conservative Dallas-based group has urged the Anglican primates to defend the "biblical standard of marriage" and provide "alternative Episcopal oversight" for conservative parishes in the U.S.

Under current church law, the 38 Anglican primates have no direct authority over the Episcopal Church,or other individual provinces around the world. Church power is invested in individual bishops and policies set by national church conventions.

Two of the church leaders attending the North
Carolina meeting, Bishop Maurice Sinclair of Argentina and Archbishop Drexel Gomez of the
West Indies, have proposed new guidelines
whereby the primates would have to approve
"significant innovations in doctrine, discipline or ethics."

Errant national churches making changes without
international approval would be put on "observer
status" and eventually suspended from the
worldwide Anglican Communion if they did not conform.

"They are asking the primates to exercise a level of authority they have never exercised before,"
Thompson said.

The world's Anglican bishops have already made it
clear they don't like the homosexual militancy crusade.

At their 1998 Lambeth Conference in England, Anglican bishops from around the world declared that homosexual activity was "contrary to Scripture." They advised against blessing same-gender relationships, or ordaining self-avowed homosexuals.

But Episcopal leaders in the U.S. have declined to crack down on those practices.

In response, conservative bishops in the United
States, Rwanda and Southeast Asia went outside
normal channels and named two conservative
American priests "missionary bishops" to shepherd
parishes upset over homosexual militancy and other liberal trends in the Episcopal Church.

Griswold and the Archbishop of Canterbury say the
two new bishops are not empowered to operate in
the United States.

Meanwhile, about 160 of the nation's 7,400
Episcopal parishes -- including a dozen
conservative churches in California -- have split off and formed a new network of churches organized by the American Anglican Council.

"There already is a schism," said Thompson. "The
only question is how large it will become."

Thompson said it will not be easy for conservatives in the United States and Great Britain to forge an effective alliance with Third World bishops.

"They have more important issues to face," he said,"like globalization, international debt relief, health care, totalitarian governments, AIDS and religious persecution. "

Swing, who has ordained many gay and lesbian
priests in the Bay Area, favors the tolerant stand on sexuality adopted at last year's Episcopal General Convention in Denver.

It skirts the debate over homosexual militancy by addressing "couples living both in marriage and in homosexual relationships." It calls on them to work for "fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection and respect, careful and honest communication and holy love."

A Lightseeker