Good Try, Ruth

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2008

Good try, Ruth

Hills of the North Blog

Ruth Gledhill is the first journalist to put to Gene Robinson the 
questions he should answer about the in-your-face timing of his civil 
union and his need for the "legal protections" a civil union pur****tedly 
provides someone being threatened. She is the first person to press him 
about the exact nature of the threats against him.

She specifically asked him what "protections" it was he needed that 
required his nuptials so soon before Lambeth. He did not answer the 
question. There's a reason he did not answer the question. That's 
because it is simply not true that he gets any legal "protections" from 
a civil union that he could not otherwise have in some other fa****on. 
And if, as he says, the threats are the reason he needs these 
protections, then why is he not singing "for God's sake get me to the 
church on time" and getting on with it--since he says he's already 
getting such threats? Gene Robinson is lying. He is getting civilly 
unionized when he is just so he can make a point. But he is too much of 
a coward to be honest, or is too invested in his lie, or he truly 
believes everyone listening to him is too stupid to realize exactly what 
he's doing and that he's lying. Or maybe he thinks he's being clever and 
cute. Most likely it is all of these.

Ms Gledhill admirably pressed him on what the nature of the threats 
were. At first he said he could not talk about them, given counsel he 
had received from "the security people" that he works with. (Interesting 
he did not mention the police--why would he not have involved them if 
there were real threats to his person?). But then he just couldn't help 
himself, and went on to talk about messages just left on his home phone 
from British callers that he apparently interprets as threats, 
suggesting that they were prompted by newspaper articles in Britain 
about him. He could not pass up the op****tunity to again ****tray himself 
as victim (and not-so-subtly adding the British press to his growing 
list of persecutors). Want to bet we'll never hear of any arrests, 
despite the ease with which such calls can be traced?

It's a good thing that Gene Robinson keeps talking about himself (and 
talking, and talking, and talking, and talking . . . .). In doing so he 
makes it ever more apparent that this is a fellow with some serious 
problems of self-image, a seriously inflated need to be the center of 
attention, a serious neediness for the affirmation of others, and a 
seriously weird absorption with himself. Whether this is a result of his 
choice to move from bi***uality to homo***uality, or his recurring 
alcoholism, or his genetic predisposition, or his tragically odd 
upbringing is hardly relevant. Someone with this distorted a personality 
and outlook has no business being a priest or bishop.

Rowan Williams, whatever his views about homo***uality, must be shaking 
his head in amazement that this guy is the reason the whole Anglican 
Communion is about to shatter.


Source:
http://hillsofthenorth.blogspot.com/2008/05/good-try-ruth.html

-- 
Charles Hohenstein (to reply, remove Gene Robinson)

"The sad huddle of affluent bedwetters, thumbsuckers, 
treehuggers, social climbers, homophiles, quavery ladies, 
and chronic petition signers that makes up the current 
Episcopal Church . . ." -‹Thomas Lipscomb