Yesterday’s Revolutionaries: Responding to Fr. Mark Harris

http://www.standfirminfaith.com/index.php/site/article/10247/

[Stand Firm] 21 Feb 2008--The "love" of Christ, or "a broad understanding of the Great Commandment..." as understood and experienced by contemporary Episcopalians, is often used as the criterion through which the rest of scripture is filtered. A month after the consecration of Gene Robinson, I visited with a bishop for whom I hold great affection. He sat in my parish library and explained that even though he recognized that passages like Romans 1:18-32 and 1st Corinthians 6:9 condemn homosexual behavior, he voted to consent to Bishop Robinson's election because "the love of Christ" trumps Paul's more Pharisaical approach. There is little if any difference between this bishop's use of the criterion of "love" and Marcion's use of the criterion of "grace".