Homosexual Bishop Exhorts Pro-Aborts to Use Scripture Against 'People of Faith'

by Jody Brown
April 19, 2005

(AgapePress) - How do liberal groups reach people of faith? The head of the Family Research Center in Washington, DC, offers this answer: "By inviting a homosexual bishop to speak."

FRC notes that in the wake of last fall's elections -- in which more voters named "moral values" as their top issue than any other -- there has been a lot of hand-wringing on the part of liberal groups about their need to reach out more to "people of faith." Planned Parenthood's Interfaith Prayer Breakfast on Friday (April 15) was an attempt to do that, as the keynote speaker for the event was V. Gene Robinson -- the openly homosexual Episcopalian bishop of New Hampshire whose consecration has divided the Episcopal Church USA and Anglicans the world over. (See earlier story)

Gene Robinson

Speaking to the pro-abortion group, Robinson said both abortion and homosexual-rights supporters should make a religious appeal. "We must use people of faith to counter the faith-based arguments against us," Robinson said. Those supporters must reclaim the scriptures, he said.

"Whether it be the Hebrew scriptures, the Christian scriptures, the Koran, or whatever -- it is time we laid claim to those," the bishop stated. "We have allowed the Bible to be taken hostage, and it is being wielded by folks who would use it to hit us over the head."

The bishop offered up some unusual interpretations of the Bible. "We have to take back those scriptures," he continued. "Those stories are our stories. I say it to lesbian folk all the time: 'You know the story of freedom in the Exodus? That's my story.' I know what it's like to be in Egypt; I know what it's like to be a slave; and I know what it's like to hear someone [like] a Moses come forward and say, 'Come out.'"

The bishop added that instead of being immature and taking the Bible literally, people need to be taught "about nuance, about different meanings. [T]he world is not black and white ... this can be true and that can be true, and somewhere between is the right answer," he assured his listeners. "Be very, very nervous about people who know exactly what God is saying."

"I know in the end [that] I'm going to heaven -- and so are you," Robinson told those in attendance.

Tony Perkins

Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, says Robinson's appearance before the largest abortion provider in the world "hardly seems the best way to reach most people of faith in America." He notes particularly the bishop's allusion to the exodus of the Hebrews from Egypt.

"Robinson's outlook [on freedom] bears little resemblance to the biblical one in which moral absolutes and divine truth actually exist," Perkins offers.

Bringing together homosexual activism and abortion on demand, Perkins adds, hardly seems the best way to reach most people of faith in America. He notes that the new head of the pro-homosexual Human Rights Campaign came from a pro-abortion political action committee.