{"id":1903,"date":"2003-11-02T16:25:39","date_gmt":"2003-11-03T08:25:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/03\/congratulations-bishop-robinson\/"},"modified":"2019-12-06T10:24:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T18:24:54","slug":"congratulations-bishop-robinson-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2003\/11\/02\/congratulations-bishop-robinson-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Congratulations, Bishop Robinson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After far too much controversy &#8212; which is, unfortunately, far from finished &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A55051-2003Nov2.html\" title=\"Episcopalians Consecrate First Openly Gay Bishop\">Gene Robinson was consecrated as Bishop<\/a> on Sunday. It sounds like, while there were objections raised and protests held near the site of the consecration, overall it went pleasantly and without any undue problems.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  After the objections were raised, &#91;Presiding Bishop Frank T.&#93; Griswold thanked attendees &#8220;for bringing their concerns before us.&#8221; But he also seemed to make a case for unity when he related a story of a primate who told him that &#8220;the Holy Spirit can do different things in different places,&#8221; adding, &#8220;That is precisely what we are doing here.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>  Robinson received a more effusive endorsement from the Rev.\u00a0Douglas Theuner, who he is replacing. Concluding a humorous and wide-ranging address that lightened the mood in the arena, Theuner told Robinson that his consecration is not the defining battle in the history of the church that some have made it out to be.<\/p>\n<p>  &#8220;When a young man unsure of his sexual orientation reads &#8216;The Episcopal Church Welcomes You&#8217; on a sign outside the church and enters that church, that&#8217;s a defining moment in Christian life,&#8221; he said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Many congratulations and best wishes go out to Bishop Robinson.<span hidden class=\"__iawmlf-post-loop-links\" data-iawmlf-links=\"[{&quot;id&quot;:12938,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.washingtonpost.com\\\/wp-dyn\\\/articles\\\/A55051-2003Nov2.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After far too much controversy &mdash; which is, unfortunately, far from finished &mdash; Gene Robinson was consecrated as Bishop on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[103],"class_list":["post-1903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1903\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}