Monday, July 14, 2008

Hells Anglican or ghost rider?

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2008/07/mystery_of_the_gay_bishops_bik.html

[NewsBlog] 14 Jul 2008--Bloggers are wondering whether the biker who heckled the gay bishop Gene Robinson was quite what he seemed to be.

he heckler, who was escorted from the service, is described by by Jim Naughton on Episcopal Cafe as "a broad-chested man with shoulder-length brown hair", wearing "a black Triumph T-shirt and black leather pants".

After waving his motorcycle helmet at Robinson, he stood outside "for several minutes near his bike, pulled on his black leather jacket and matching gloves, and departed".

Naughton says a journalist asked the church's vicar whether he had "pulled the man off of the street and paid him to disrupt the service in order to create as unfavourable an image as possible of Robinson's adversaries".

This cynical view is shared by the rightwing blog Blaney's Blarney, which wonders "whether the biker who heckled 'Bishop' Robinson might have been a plant, a paid heckler who was tasked with heckling on cue" in order to raise sympathy for the American clergyman.

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