Friday, April 11, 2008

Some great "hate speech" here

Good to see a Christian clergyman who has not been intimidated into silence about the Bible message. Australia's Sydney diocese is VERY New Testament-oriented:

"A senior minister of a Sydney Anglican parish has made an extraordinary attack on the High Court judge Michael Kirby, warning he would face the wrath of God if he remained unrepentant as a gay man.

The rector of St Stephen's Church in Bellevue Hill, the Reverend Richard Lane, denounced the judge for calling himself a Christian Anglican while living in an openly gay relationship and warned as a "messenger, watchman and steward of the Lord in the Anglican Church of Australia", he faced God's judgment.

To call himself a Christian Anglican was a "perversion of truth" and to continue to do so without changing his lifestyle would brand him, like Herod, a "coward, a liar, a deceiver" and a "lawless one".

"I appeal to you to cast yourself on the mercy of Jesus . That is admit your sin, confess your wrongdoing and turn in humble repentance to the Lord Jesus, who alone can forgive you," Mr Lane said.

Source

I might note that Sydney diocese has a third of Australia's Anglicans. Their churches are full while Anglican churches elsewhere are more likely to have just six old ladies in flowered hats at a Sunday service.

It will be interesting to see if there are any legal repercussions from this. I suspect that it will be given a pass -- if only because the Sydney diocese is influential. Though Justice Kirby could himself initiate some action, of course.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is exactly why I don't bother with organized religion. This is why nobody can convert me, because they all lie, they say all you have to do is believe in Jesus as your Lord and Savior, but that's a lie, it's not enough, apparently you also have to live a white picket fence lifestyle, get a wife, have plenty of kids, abstain from all "sin," whatever. The reverend can condemn the judge all he wants, but God knows what sins the reverend commits everyday.