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.
Gene RobinsonWhen you claim to have the truth, as opposed to the truth as you perceive it, then you move us toward a theocratic view of government.
Gene RobinsonI've long been really intrigued with what is the ... proper role of faith and religion in public life.
Gene RobinsonMy conservative brothers and sisters seem to argue that God revealed everything to us in scripture. Ever since, it has simply been our difficult but straightforward task to conform ourselves to God's will revealed there and to repent when we are unable or unwilling to do so. For me, there is something static and lifeless in such a view of God. Could it be that even the Bible is too small a box in which to enclose God?
Gene Robinson