Zitat des Tages von Gene Robinson:
Sometimes there are things worth risking your life for. It was Jesus who said if you want to save your life, you have to lose it.
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
I think there's a terrible price to be paid when your exterior life is not an honest reflection of your interior life.
Stability is why society has an interest in marriage.
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
There are enormously gifted Episcopal priests around this church who are gay and lesbian, some of whom are partnered, who would make wonderful bishops and they're going to be nominated and they're going to be elected.
And God is always calling me to open myself to all kinds of people that I've never thought about before and also calling me on this inward spiritual journey.
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people.
You know, we live in a time when if somebody wants to kill you, they're going to kill you, and you can either go in a hole and, you know, pull the roof in over you, or you just continue putting one foot in front of the other and hope that you're doing some good in the world.
The bees learn where they live by landmarks. If they're moved within their home range, they get confused.
Discerning the will of God is a very tricky thing, partly because, you know, the little voice in my head can either be God's voice or it can be my own ego doing a magnificent impression of God's voice.
I think my election is one of several indications that gay and lesbian folk are being brought more into the center of things. I'd like to think that my election signals my bringing of gay and lesbian folk into the center of the church.
The state's interest in marriage is stability. Generally speaking, polygamy does not work for stability. Inherent in the whole polygamous movement is a deep and abiding misogyny and denigration of women. So polygamy is objectionable on lots of grounds.
Left to our own devices and passions, we human beings have a hard time seeing beyond what is immediately in front of us.
If indeed this is the work of God... then it's a crisis that calls for the church to be its very best self, and not worry about risking itself for the right thing.
