Journal: News & Comment

Ouch!

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I know it's risky to speak about religious controversy in almost any public context, but whatever your opinion on the new openly gay Episcopal bishop in the U.S., you might (as I did) find this quote to be a remarkable line of satire:

The consecration of Gene Robinson as bishop of the New Hampshire Diocese of the Episcopal Church is an affront to Christians everywhere. I am just thankful that the church's founder, Henry VIII, and his wife Catherine of Aragon, and his wife Anne Boleyn, and his wife Jane Seymour, and his wife Anne of Cleves, and his wife Katherine Howard, and his wife Catherine Parr are no longer here to suffer through this assault on traditional Christian marriage. —Paul Emmons, West Chester University

(Some background if you'd like it.)

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