Link: http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/03/29/v_gene_robinson_on_the_faith_of_a_gay_bishop/

I came across this article from the Boston Globe today on Bishop Robinson that excerpted a few of his quotes from a resent lecture he gave at Trinity Church in Copley Square.

“We hear so often of the pain that the Episcopal Church has caused the rest of the world. Why is it that we don’t hear about the hope we have given to so much of the rest of the world?”

What homosexuals have to endure at the hands of their fellow man is inexcusable, but I have to wonder how this gives them hope? They are being told that their sin is a virtue and that God approves of their behavior. Instead of being told to overcome their sinful nature they are told to give in to it. Scripture contradicts this message so the only hope that the gay and lesbian community are given is a false hope of a fictional salvation. The worse thing that comes from clergy who hold the beliefs that Bishop Robinson holds is that homosexuals are being lead into thinking that they have no need for repentance because their sin is not a sin. A false doctrine that is being dispensed from the pulpit is leading many potentially good people from salvation into condemnation. Who will be more surprised when they stand before Christ and He says “I never knew you”, those who invented the lie and convinced themselves it was true or those who where told the lie and believed it?

“There are a couple of great stories about gay people in the Bible. Maybe you didn’t know that. One of them is the Exodus story, which is the greatest coming out story in the history of the world. It is, don’t laugh. Because we know what it’s like to be in slavery. We know what it’s like to be in bondage. We know what it’s like not to be free. Because we’ve had the experience of someone coming and talking about a promised land, not just of milk and honey, but of freedom, and God’s love and acceptance, and some of us actually believed it and left. We left Egypt to come out.”

I will agree that gay people are in bondage, but instead of breaking free from their bondage to sin, Bishop Robinson is telling them to tighten the shackles of slavery. There is no Exodus from Egypt occurring. There are simply those who tell them that their slavery is actually freedom and to stay where they are and make some more bricks. Robinson claims that they know what it is like not to be free but I question if that is true. Freedom is not being chained to the sinful nature that is a part of all mankind. Freedom is not looking at the shackles and calling them jewelry.

Malachi 2:17

You have wearied the LORD with your words. “How have we wearied him?” you ask. By saying, “All who do evil are good in the eyes of the LORD, and he is pleased with them” or “Where is the God of justice?”