{"id":1654,"date":"2006-02-17T08:09:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-17T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/no-such-thing-as-a-bishop-gene.html"},"modified":"2006-02-17T08:09:00","modified_gmt":"2006-02-17T08:09:00","slug":"no-such-thing-as-a-bishop-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/no-such-thing-as-a-bishop-gene.html","title":{"rendered":"No Such Thing as a Bishop Gene"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cwfa.org\/images\/content\/gaybishop.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 200px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cwfa.org\/images\/content\/gaybishop.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><em><br><a href=\"http:\/\/sergesblog.blogspot.com\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Serge\u2019s<\/a> comment is food for thought, at least.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe \u2026<\/p>\n<p>1) like the academically unqualified Barbara Harris was promoted 17 years ago in the rush to make a statement, Robinson\u2019s problem was covered up and\/or \u2026<\/p>\n<p>2) all the pressure of being a world symbol as well as a bishop got to him and aggravated it. <\/p>\n<p>The obvious point of many who\u2019ve spread this news online is his becoming a practicing homosexual didn\u2019t do the trick and he remains unhappy.Somebody else has suggested that this could be a way for ECUSA to prevent a split in\/from the Anglican Communion (for now) without having to repent: use the alcoholism as an excuse to retire Robinson early. I\u2019m not sure if they\u2019d do that or if Robinson would \u2018take one for the team\u2019 like that though\u2026 perhaps if he were paid handsomely for his trouble like the severance package Jo Mo Doss got from the Diocese of New Jersey. <\/p>\n<p><em>He\u2019s, of course, referring to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/gay-bishop-admits-alcoholism.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\">THIS<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Any way you look at it, all things considered, he\u2019s unfit to be a church leader.  <\/em><\/p>\n<p>Maybe his failure is just plain genetic.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serge\u2019s comment is food for thought, at least. Maybe \u2026 1) like the academically unqualified Barbara Harris was promoted 17 years ago in the rush to make a statement, Robinson\u2019s problem was covered up and\/or \u2026 2) all the pressure of being a world symbol as well as a bishop got to him and aggravated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1691,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>No Such Thing as a Bishop Gene<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Serge&#039;s comment is food for thought, at least.Maybe ...1) like the academically unqualified Barbara Harris was promoted 17 years ago in the rush to make a\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/no-such-thing-as-a-bishop-gene.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"No Such Thing as a Bishop Gene\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Serge&#039;s comment is food for thought, at least.Maybe ...1) like the academically unqualified Barbara Harris was promoted 17 years ago in the rush to make a\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/orthodixie\/2006\/02\/no-such-thing-as-a-bishop-gene.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Orthodixie\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-02-17T08:09:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.cwfa.org\/images\/content\/gaybishop.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Fr. 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