New US church leader says homosexuality no sin

That didn't take long ... on Sunday she was announced as the new leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church. Monday, there's this ...

New US church leader says homosexuality no sin

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Newly elected leader of the U.S. Episcopal Church Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori said on Monday she believed homosexuality was no sin and homosexuals were created by God to love people of the same gender.

Jefferts Schori, bishop of the Diocese of Nevada, was elected on Sunday as the first woman leader of the 2.3 million-member Episcopal Church. the U.S. branch of the worldwide Anglican Communion. She will formally take office later this year.

Interviewed on CNN, Jefferts Schori was asked if it was a sin to be homosexual.

"I don't believe so. I believe that God creates us with different gifts. Each one of us comes into this world with a different collection of things that challenge us and things that give us joy and allow us to bless the world around us," she said.

"Some people come into this world with affections ordered toward other people of the same gender and some people come into this world with affections directed at people of the other gender."

This brings to mind two questions ...

First, in a liberal's theology, is God ever given the privilege of telling us something we don't want to hear?

Second, has the media ever met a liberal Christian leader that it didn't adore? Related: Is it ever "news" that a conservative Christian leader says homosexuality IS a sin?


Just asking ...