Is it just me, or is Mark Steyn’s comments on the whole Episcopal ratification of Gene Robinson just the absolutely best piece that has been written on this whole fiasco? (Thanks to the web-elves at CANN for tipping me off.) Here’s a few choice comments:
So now the most celebrated symbol of Granite State manhood is the Great Gay Face, the Reverend Gene Robinson. And, although I’m feeling a little gayed out these days, since folks insist on pressing me, let me say a couple of things about the Episcopal Church’s and the Anglican Communion’s first gay bishop. And by gay, I don’t mean one of those fainthearted CofE “celibate gays” like poor doomed Jeffrey John. Personally, I thought the much touted celibacy of Canon John and his friend had a whiff of the old “but I didn’t inhale” about it: as my colleague Barbara Amiel summarised Clinton’s defence in the Monica business, “But I didn’t impale.”
By contrast, Canon Robinson, a proudly “practising” gay, decided to shoot for the whole enchilada – daring the dithering nellies of his Church to take not one small tentative first step but a giant leap for mankind. He had the courage of his concupiscence, and he has been rewarded for it.
Practicing gay?!? Seems to me he doesn’t need any practice, he’s got it down cold.
Seriously, I think the vast majority of us in straight America are feeling pretty “gayed-out”. They’re here, they’re queer, now make them shut up and get out of our faces.
I have not yet read Steyn’s piece, but he usually writes the best article on the subject he’s commenting upon, so I will agree even before I click that link.
I read that article on Friday and it was excellent. The quotes he took from some people were amazing that said homosexuality was only wrong for heterosexuals.
Sad to say, that argument had circulated among some supposedly Catholic theology professors too.
Needless to say, Bishop Robinson had no time for such pretzel logic. He cut to the chase. “I believe that God gave us the gift of sexuality so that we might express with our bodies the love that’s in our hearts,” he announced to his fellow bishops. “I just need to tell you that I experience that with my partner. In the time that we have, I can’t go into all the theology around it, but what I can tell you is that in my relationship with my partner, I am able to express the deep love that’s in my heart, and in his unfailing and unquestioning love of me, I experience just a little bit of the kind of never-ending, never-failing love that God has for me. So it’s sacramental for me.”
In short, Bishop Robinson has declared that sex is an end unto itself, rather than a means to an end (the production of life).
The objectively disordered behavior that in better days “dare not speak its name” now won’t shut up for even a second.
When I click the link I see a header but no story.