Two very different perspectives

Speaking of schism and the divisive use of insulting language, here are two very different views on these with regard to how God's covenant people are to relate to each other:

I will not employ sarcasm, dismissiveness, meanness, or insult toward those who do not identify as Christian . . . [b]ut what I believe is the prophetic . . . nature of my writings is, by definition and intent, to be directed toward the Church.

-- Keely Emerine Mix

[Confronting Wilson] is an exercise in endurance and self control -- a baptism of filth, no less necessary for the horror it stirs in me.

-- Keely Emerine Mix

Wilson, et al, are the objects of scorn because Wilson, et al, behave badly in the public square, and any other community, not just a community of "washed up hippies," would learn to despise a man who delights in offering it a stiff middle finger.

-- Keely Emerine-Mix

While I don't see a lot of love for his congregation gushing out of Wilson, I do see a font of a different sort poured out in contempt or indifference when it comes to the great unwashed outside his doors.

-- Keely Emerine-Mix

Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity! It is like the precious ointment upon the head, that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard: that went down to the skirts of his garments; as the dew of Hermon, and as the dew that descended upon the mountains of Zion: for there Yahweh commanded the blessing, even life for evermore.

-- Psalm 133

These six things doth Yahweh hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto Him: a proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood, an heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief, a false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

-- Proverbs 6:12-19

Hatred stirreth up strifes: but love covereth all sins.

-- Proverbs 10:12

A froward man soweth strife: and a whisperer separateth chief friends.

-- Proverbs 16:28

So we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another . . . be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love . . .

-- Romans 12:5,10

For He is our peace, Who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in His flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in Himself of twain one new man, so making peace; and that He might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby: and came and preached peace to you which were afar off, and to them that were nigh. For through Him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father. Now therefore ye are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellowcitizens with the saints, and of the household of God; and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ Himself being the chief corner stone; in whom all the building fitly framed together groweth unto an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

-- Ephesians 2:14-22

Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.

-- Ephesians 4:29-32

Fulfil ye my joy, that ye be likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.

-- Phillipians 2:2

Gene Robinson is not just any gay guy

Keely Emerine-Mix does not like it when Doug Wilson refers to apostate dog (to use biblically accurate terminology) Gene Robinson as a "poofter." Her rationale, in part at least, is that such language immediately alienates the very people that the church needs to be reaching out to.

Okay, I concur that we do not want to give unnecessary offense to people outside the church. The gospel is plenty offensive enough to the man outside of Christ, and if someone -- anyone -- leading a life of gross wickedness is interested in learning more about the Christian faith, or expresses an interest in coming to church, that person is definitely not somebody that we want to drive away by referring to them in insulting terms. And we should want to share the gospel with such people at every opportunity. After all, such were some of us: but we are washed, but we are sanctified, but we are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. And one thing that we can cheerfully affirm is that none of us who are in the church and currently unencumbered by gross sexual sin are where we are because of anything inherently deserving in us. We can cheerfully and gratefully affirm that if God dealt with us solely with strict justice, we would be looking forward to an eternity in the Lake of Fire. We have found salvation purely by grace, entirely on account of Christ. In fact, without going into any details, I never lose sight of the fact that prior to being brought to faith in Christ, I did some things that God excoriates in the Bible using language hardly less harsh than some of the things said in the Bible about homosexuals.

But Gene Robinson is not one of the two young men living in sin in an apartment down the hall. He is one of the people spearheading the drive to transform the church into a harlot. Gene Robinson is the ECUSA's willing "strap-on tool" being driven forcefully into the Bride of Christ with the intention of defiling her and making her say, "Yes! this is how I like it." And they don't care if they split the church in the process.

Dante would not have put them in the seventh circle of Hell with the sodomites. He would have put them in ninth Bolge of the eighth circle together with Mohammed and the other schismatics.

So when we consider people in the grip of homosexuality, we really do need to draw two distinctions. First we need to distinguish between those whose consciences are troubled by their own behavior and those who are defiantly unrepentant. And even more importantly we need to distinguish between both of the first two groups and those who insist that unrepentant homosexuals are welcome just as they are at the Lord's table, that they should be able to get married in the church and that they should be able to lead the church.

It is to be expected that people outside the church will act the way that they do. But we inside the church are to be washed, sanctified and justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God. When those of us who lay claim to the name of Christ are clearly involved in any sin, and we refuse to repent of it, the rule is discipline, which means denying access to the Lord's Table (excommunication) and, in the case of church leaders and teachers, stripping them of all authority in the church.

If Gene Robinson dies without repenting of his sins, when he goes to stand before our Lord's judgment seat he will hear things said that are much harder to bear than "poofter."

Mrs. Mix criticizes the notion that "one's homosexuality is about all you need to know of someone before you attack them." Not necessarily. If the person is an unrepentant homosexual activist in clerical garb, there is not much more that one needs to know. The Bible says that a man like Gene Robinson is worthy of death on multiple counts.

"Take away the wicked from before the king, and his throne shall be established in righteousness." Gene Robinson represents an example of one of the first men that should be taken away in any society concerned with righteousness.