Rick Warren To Address Anti-Gay, "Jewish" Breakaway Anglicans. Again.

[The Night Owl]

Article from Talk To Action...

Rick Warren To Address Anti-Gay, "Jewish" Breakaway Anglicans. Again.

By Bruce Wilson

Rick Warren typically denies holding public positions that might be characterized as hateful but he nonetheless endorses and supports African clerics, such as Peter Akinola and Henry Orombi, who promote extreme forms of anti-gay and anti-Jewish bigotry. According to a September 2, 2007, UPI story, Nigerian Anglican Bishop Isaac Orama, under the jurisdiction of Akinola, declared that "Homosexuality and lesbianism are inhuman. Those who practice them are insane, satanic and are not fit to live because they are rebels to God's purpose for man." Archbishop Peter Akinola has endorsed proposed legislation that would strip Nigeria's gays of basic human rights and is more severe than analogous criminal codes implemented during Adolf Hitler's pre-World War Two Third Reich. Not to be outdone, Henry Orombi has claimed, in a June 13, 2007 public address in Uganda, that "Acts of homosexuality and lesbianism have infiltrated our schools, especially secondary schools." The Archbishop went on to declare that he has "personally joined the war" against the alleged 'invasion', which Orombi associated with the "moral decay of society." Orombi's statements about the alleged threat have included the suggestion that gay assassins might be plotting to kill him.

But, there's more; the GAFCON Anglicans now seem to have taken up the position that they are "Jews" and "true Israel."

In March 2008 Purpose Driven Life author and global evangelist Rick Warren, pastor of the 20,000 member Saddleback Church in Southern California, traveled to Africa and, as AllAfrica.com reported in a March 29 story, addressed the schismatic 'global South' Anglicans of GAFCON, headed by African Archbishops Peter Akinola and Henry Orombi; ' "Dr Warren said that homosexuality is not a natural way of life and thus not a human right. "We shall not tolerate this aspect at all." ' Then, in early April 2009, Warren was caught lying about his endorsement of Proposition Eight, an anti-gay marriage resolution on the ballot in California during the November 2008 election. Now, as detailed in an April 23, 2009 story published by Christian Today, Rick Warren plans to meet this summer, in June, with a new breakaway American Episcopalian faction that has aligned with the GAFCON Anglicans.

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http://www.talk2action.org/story/2009/4/30/193742/011/Front_Page/Rick_Warren_To_Address_Anti_Gay_quot_Jewish_quot_Breakaway_Anglicans_Again_

[YOY]

1. "Nigerian Anglican Bishop Isaac Orama"

I think I got an emial from him one...he has a SHITLOAD of money waiting for me.

[TechBear_Seattle]

2. Saddlebacking... sounds like a sex act, doesn't it?

According to readers of Dan Savage's column Savage Love, saddlebacking is "the phenomenon of Christian teens engaging in unprotected anal sex in order to preserve their virginities."

[Howardx]

3. title is a bit confusing

are they "jewish" anglicans? the article says they are anti jewish.

[muriel_volestrangler]

4. It's metaphorical

They're claiming to be in the same position as early Christians (who were ethnically Jewish). From the article:

As Rev Davies wrote,

"The issue we face in the UK is that there is already a network of "established" churches across the country. This makes our situation, ironically, closer to the New Testament than perhaps in other parts of the world, as there are two groups in most places: "Jews" (established confessing YHWHists, synagogue in the 1st Century, Anglican church in the 21st Century) and Gentiles (people who aren't religious in any real way, but are vaguely aware of these other religious types who've been a fact of life for a very long time. In lots of places that means opposition from the religious people and indifference from the Gentiles.)"

"Again, interestingly, the argument Paul and the 1st Century Christians found themselves making over and over again in Acts was, "we're the true Israel". Which is what we'd say about us church planters. What drives us is the loss of the gospel in these other "churches", and therefore we're the real Christians just trying to put it back."

So, just as Paul claimed he was following the true will of God, while the established religion in his area, in which he had grown up, had 'lost its way", the anti-gay Anglicans in England claim they believe what God really thinks, while they think the more tolerant mainstream Chruch of England is doing something wrong.