Sex
Priest's arrest about bigotry, not justice
By FRANK CERABINO
Palm Beach Post
September 09, 2007
OK, here's the scenario.
A guy goes to a public place where he hopes to find a willing sex partner. He zeroes in on somebody who apparently is sending off inviting signals. And so, without much fanfare, the guy announces that he would like to have sex and would be willing to follow that person in his car to that person's apartment, where they could have consensual sex in a private setting.
Doesn't sound like a crime, right? But maybe this cryptic scenario just needs more details.
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CARY MCMULLEN: Is divorce different for a minister?
Lakeland (FL) Ledger
September 8, 2007
It goes without saying that attitudes about divorce have changed drastically in society over the last 40 years. When I was a kid in the early 1960s, it was not very common and still a matter of some shame.
Today, we are told, roughly 50 percent of all marriages will end in divorce. That alone would tend to make people less inclined to see divorce as a stigma. In fact, if anything, the needle has swung in the opposite direction, and it is now seen as no big deal.
Even for pastors, once held to a one-strike-and-you’re-out standard, the rules, it seems, have changed.
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Recently the Episcopal church elevated a man to the position of Bishop. This man had left his wife and had gone into a sexual relationship with another male. My question is this: Would the Episcopal church have made this same man a Bishop if he had deserted his wife for another woman, instead of for a homosexual relationship?
Posted by: Jerry Williams | January 09, 2008 at 12:45 PM
If you're talking about +Gene Robinson, Jerry, you've got your facts wrong. As has been made very clear elsewhere on this blog, there was no "desertion." +Gene and his wife divorced amicably--and she remarried--two years before he met Mark Andrew, his partner of nearly 20 years now.
Posted by: epiScope | January 10, 2008 at 11:09 AM