He said that the lame man knew in his heart that he had always belonged in the temple. Peter removed the impediment that prevented him from entering the place where he belonged. Filtering his interpretation through a GLBT entitlement lens Robinson suggested that GLBTs have always deserved full participation and leadership positions in the church

The Rev. Gene Robinson, the first openly homosexual to be named a bishop of the Episcopal Church (USA) told a gathering at the Presbyterian Church (USA) General Assembly that the time has come for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people to “take the Bible back.” What he meant was, take the Bible away.

Robinson gave his audience two examples of his Bible redraft. The first is his interpretation of God the Father’s words at the time of Jesus’ baptism, “This is my Son, with whom I am well pleased.” Robinson said that GLBT people may understand these words as God’s statement to GLBT people. Interpreted thusly, GLBT people are assured that they are pleasing to God, just as they are, without any need for an amendment of life.

Robinson’s exegesis constitutes a gargantuan stretch. Scripture says God the Father was speaking of one person – and only one person – who has ever been pleasing to God. That person is Jesus, the person who is without sin. As our Nicene Creed so clearly expresses it, Jesus is “of the same substance as the Father.” It is precisely because Jesus is “God of God, light of light, very God of very God,” precisely because there is no distance between the Father and the Son that the Father is well pleased with Him. No one else meets that description.

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