A gay bishop, what's the big deal?

I honestly never thought that Rev. Gene Robinson would make it into bishophood.. is that a word? And now that he has, I'm puzzled as to what all the confusion is. I understand that many didn't want this to happen, but we are beyond that now. From listening to the news, you would think that Christ had returned or the world was ending. He's a gay man who became a bishop - get over it already! I do have to say this about the Episcopalians however, they do have great insence! Also, New Hampshire is a little state (and a long way from England). It's hard for me to believe that this isn't much ado about nothing.

This points to a key issue that I have with many religions. I don't believe in punishing people for issues they have no control over. People are born with their sexual orientation, it isn't learned or developed because the father figure in your life was a wuss or because you had a domonearing mother. Just like it's true that you don't have hairy palms from well... you know.

There are a lot of untruths about homosexual persons in the world. Some time ago I came to the conclusion that it was time for the church (about 90% of them) to pull their heads out of their asses and actually try to understand that telling a gay person they are going to hell for something they had no control over is not constructive and chances are, with all the discrimination and hatred in the world towards homosexuals, they are probably going through their own hell on earth.

Life for gays is getting better, but only in the last year or so. The last year has focused more attention to the issues we have to put up with every day, that it's somewhat like entering an age of enlightenment for many of us. Still, in many parts of the world, to be charged with being a homosexual can bring the death sentence or imprisonment. Of course, you never hear the church going against anything like the beheading of homosexuals in other countries. The reason: they are too busy dealing with an openly gay homosexual who made it to the rank of bishop. HOW DARE HE!