>


As A Catholic I must be committed to equal justice for all. It is as
simple as that. More anon. My PC is dying. Blessings. GDVW+In response to
your questions I will attempt to clarify my apparently
> cryptic e-mail.
>
> Originally I wrote following e-mail.
>   Gordon+ wrote:
>
>   "I suspect for your Nigerian friends' tribal culture plays an
> inordinately large part in their posture. And that is understandable."
> Blessings. GDVW+
>
>
>
>   I think I am not alone in wondering what is playing such "an
> inordinately large part in" your posture.
>
>   John+
> Since then, the following comments have appeared:
>
> "Care to explain this?"
> "Please enlighten us."
>
>
> Gee, I didn't know I could generate this much interest.
>
> Here is the original message to which I was referring:
>
> <Dean Scott: The Sacrament of Marriage is NOT what we are talking
> about-the issue of civil marriage is an entirely different breed. The vast
> majority of these registry office ceremonies would not qualify under Canon
> Law anyway. What we are trying to do is to provide some civil
> protection/stability for people who are among the most persecuted-often by
> their own-(so much for family values). The apostate Bishop of California
> (2nd or 3rd career +Mark Andrus) wants everyone in his jurisdiction to go
> to the local Court House and then return to their parish where they may
> have a choice of 1 of 3 same sex blessing services. That way no one is
> left out.  it will be interesting to see how many heed his directive.I
> suspect for your Nigerian friends' tribal culture plays an inordinately
> large part in their posture. And that is understandable. Blessings
> [emphasis added]. GDVW+>
>
>
> The subject, as usual, was homosexuality, more specifically, same sex
> marriages.  Fr. Wiebe commented that he thought that the Nigerian's
> "tribal culture plays an inordinately large part in their posture [on the
> subject of homosexuality]."
>
> I merely was musing about what might have played "an inordinately large
> part in" the development of Fr. Wiebe's posture on the subject of
> homosexuality--and felt that I was probably not alone, in this
> FaithandLife list, in wondering.
>
> It appears that JTP, by his e-mail below, has caught the gist of what I
> was wondering about. ("[T]here appears to be some kind of intense fixation
> on the whole subject of homosexuality by Fr. Wiebe that is never
> explained.")
>
> John+
>
>   ----- Original Message -----
>   From: JTP
>   To: faithandlife@...
>   Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 5:57 PM
>   Subject: RE: [FaithandLife] RSVP/RSVP PATHETIC: GLOBAL ANGLICAN FUTURE -
> JERUSALEM 2008
>
>
>
>   As an one who is more often than not an observer on this list, there
> appears to be some kind of intense fixation on the whole subject of
> homosexuality by Fr. Wiebe that is never explained.
>
>   The position of the New Testament on homosexual relationships is so
> abundantly clear that I personally cannot see what more that five
> minutes of anyone's time is spent even discussing this topic.
>
>   Now if that was an ECUSA group, it would make more sense...
>
>   Frankly, the same is true of Women's ordination as it applies to the
> APA, REC or the Continuum. It is a DEAD issue.
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