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| Bishop Alexander King Sample |
A rather bizarre story from 2009 when Bishop
Sample of Marquette Michigan barred retired bishop of Detroit Bishop Thomas Gumbleton
from giving a talk at a local Lutheran Church. A Lutheran church, that's right.
Bishop Sample practicing his Religious
Liberty to deny others in his secular community Freedom of Expression and or Freedom
of Speech? How typically Catholic these days in America.
When did Freedom of Speech in America become a
crime Bishop Sample??? What planet do you live on?
Marquette has a population of 20k. The Catholics lost among the many more moose and guns on the upper peninsula, 50k, is less than many
megachurches out west and down south.
The victims people Catholics of his upcoming transfer to Portland Oregon are in for a treat. I think Portland used to
have a reputation as a nesting place for eccentrics on the West Coast. It more recently
has the rep of being the juvenile sex trafficking hub of the west coast (but "Seattle is Worse" see comments).
Great place to send a head in the sand bishop
who does not even want another point of view expressed down the street in
Moosetown on Nuclear Disarmament.
The Child Sex Trafficking problem just went
away with the arrival of Bishop King Sample in Portland Oregon. It doesn’t exist in the Church and
cannot therefore exist in the profane secular world as well.
Good luck Portland! Welcome to the seventeenth
century. Wait for the upcoming "Bishop Sample Approved list of Street Conversations in Portland". LOL
Pass the buggy whip dude, please.
I read Bishop Alexander Sample's explanation in
The Mining Journal of his decision to prohibit Bishop Gumbleton from speaking
publicly.
Bishop Gumbleton was scheduled to speak at a
prayer service at St. Mark's Lutheran Church on "Gospel's Call: Action for
Peace," and at Peter White Library on "Vision for Peace: Abolition of
Nuclear Weapons," both timely and critical issues. Bishop Sample's reasons
were that questions may arise on controversial issues, e.g. homosexuality and
ordination of women as priests. At the same time, however, he noted that these
were not the issues of Bishop Gumbleton's talks, but questions may be asked
about these issues and his duty was to shepherd us.
As an active member of the Catholic Church, I
respect Bishop Sample's duty to shepherd us, but shepherding should not
prohibit open dialogue and questions which may arise on controversial issues.
