I’ve been waiting to say that for some time.
It will, of course, but we have to draw the line of irredeemable idiocy somewhere, so here it is. Most of us have not come to terms with the angst caused by our white privilege, and now we have that most heinous of all privileges to cope with: straight privilege.
Bishop Mariann Budde and Washington National Cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith have apologised for letting Max Lucado speak at the cathedral. The devil didn’t make them do it, straight privilege did. Much the same thing, I suppose; at least they were not personally responsible, that’s the main thing.
The problem is, Max Lucado does not insist that homosexual acts and same sex marriage are in accord with Christian beliefs. This is not only unAnglican but it has caused pain. I know it has caused me pain: mostly from laughing too hard at the absurdity of it all.
From here:
Washington Bishop Mariann Budde and Washington National Cathedral Dean Randy Hollerith issued parallel apologies late Feb. 10 for allowing popular evangelical pastor Max Lucado to preach during the cathedral’s Sunday service, despite facing outrage in advance over Lucado’s past statements against homosexuality and same-sex marriage.
Budde and Hollerith both spoke of the pain the decision had caused many members of the LGBTQ community. Budde, in her statement, quoted with permission from a dozen of the people who wrote to her in protest. Hollerith said people had reached out to him as well, and he acknowledged he had erred in not listening to their calls to rescind the invitation to Lucado.
“In my straight privilege I failed to see and fully understand the pain he has caused,” Hollerith said. “I failed to appreciate the depth of injury his words have had on many in the LGBTQ community. I failed to see the pain I was continuing. I was wrong and I am sorry.”
Quos deus vult perdere prius dementat …
Mt. 5:27-32: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/mt-527-32-dr-priscilla-turner/
Nicene Creed IX: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/nicene-creed-ix-christian-hope-part-two-pdm-turner-turner/
We are learning new terms daily. Now, I have learned “straight privilege”, or perhaps, “non-straight privilege”.
What colour privilege would this be?
“Then spake The LORD to Paul in the night by a vision,
Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:
For I AM with thee, and no man shall set on thee to hurt thee:
for I have much people* in this city” (Corinth)
* “fornicators,,,idolaters…adulterers…effeminate…abusers of themselves with
mankind…thieves…covetous…drunkards…revilers…extortioners…”
Now there is an ‘inclusive’ Gospel. Acts 18; I Corinthians ch. 6 Amen.
Arighting Peter’s Barque’s recent, sharp veering to the Cultural Marxist Left, on Monday, March 15, 2021, the Roman Pontifex Maximus has declared the sound doctrine of the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith’s Catechism, itself grounded in The Rock of Holy Scripture, Jesus Christ The Living WORD, that homosexuality is a “sin” which cannot “be blessed”.
For all Communions, The ACC and its activist counterpart, The PCC, that have been citing this erroneous Pontifical teaching as warrant to violate Canon Law which also is grounded in Holy Scripture, this is a truly penitential moment in Eternal Time:
also to be repented of, inclusive of any ‘Apology’ proffered to those still captive to this sin, and now seeking the added Blessing of Christian Marriage.
Dafter yet is the March 17, 2021, ‘Pastoral Letter’ of the Presbyterian Popeling (the term of PCC Moderators, whose principal task is but to oversee the lawful and orderly processing of the Church’s business as lodged with its highest Court at its scheduled annual meeting, ends with the rising of the sole General Assembly that voted him or her to do so; not to become a serial Moderator/Popeling 2019, 2020, under the pretext of the Plague) whose Roman marital alliance should provide some greater light on the gravity of the March 15, 2021 CDF- Papal pronouncement
grounded in Holy Scripture.
Instead, the hijacked rainbow has been summoned once more as evocative of an apologetic “promise” to the activist cabal bearing that name – ‘The Rainbow Communion’ – now operating within The Body to force their anti-Scriptural rebellion on the whole Body of a now troubled and divided Church; with no little compliance from the ACC, from cancelled ‘Record’, to sundy signatories to the 2014 et seq, Denyer-Rois Epistle to the Rebellious -“and the rest of the men that were not killed by these plagues yet repented not..”
THE Promise of Holy Scripture is the fulfilled Will of GOD as fully Revealed in The Sinless Life, Death, Resurrection, Ascension and Second Coming of our LORD Jesus Christ, The Living WORD, Whose “mighty angel,,, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire: And he had in his hand a little book open…And crieth with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth…and sware by Him that liveth for ever and ever…that there should be time no longer”
+ The Revelation of Jesus Christ, chs. 9, 10. Amen.
“In my straight privilege I failed to see and fully understand the pain he has caused,” Hollerith. I assume that the ‘he’ is Lucado.
I’m curious to know if Hollerith and Budde’s ‘straight privilege’ also acknowledges and ‘fully understand the pain’ they regularly cause to us Biblically orthodox Christians, not to mention to God Himself.
But haven’t we been warned in 2 Timothy 3:1-9? Appropriately, verse 5 ends with, ‘Avoid such people.’
Just another proof that many so-called bishops within the Anglican Communion are nothing more than apostates believing that their word supersedes THE WORD. Until the Anglican Communion defrocks these apostates their congregations will continue to drop significantly as their members turn to parishes within the Anglican Church in North America and its Canadian component..
I think Lucado should sue Budde and Hollerith for this set up, with lawsuits directed both at their workplace (church) and for personal misconduct.
Why did Budden and Hollerith invite him and allow him to execute if they were so sympathetic the other way? Only to publicly embarrass and defame Lucado after the fact?
I’d slap them with so many lawsuits their legal fees alone would force them sell the building to cover defence. Maybe we should suggest it to Lucado?
Yes, but will they also apologize for reading the letters of the Apostle Paul in their church services, due to his various past non-inclusive statements? (1Cor. 5:9-13, 6:9-20, etc.) For that matter, will they disown Jesus for his statements against immorality? (Matthew 15:19-20, etc.). Just to be consistent.