The openly gay bishop at the centre of much of the divisions in the Anglican Communion has rejected the call for his resignation by the Archbishop of Sudan earlier in the week.
Archbishop Daniel Deng Bul called for Bishop Robinson's resignation "for the sake of the Church", saying his behaviour violated "the norms of the Anglican Communion".
In his blog on Wednesday, New Hampshire Bishop Robinson wrote, "Those calling for my resignation seem to be under the impression that if Gene Robinson went away, that all would go back to being 'like it was,' whatever that was! Does ANYONE think that if I resigned, this issue would go away?!
"We [gay and lesbian Anglicans] are not going away, as much as some would like us to," he added.
Archbishop Deng called on Tuesday for Bishop Robinson's resignation "for the sake of the Church", saying his behaviour violated "the norms of the Anglican Communion".
The New Hampshire bishop has lived openly with another man for 20 years and had a civil ceremony in June 2008. The Anglican Communion, meanwhile, rejects homosexual practice as incompatible with Scripture.
"Three hundred bishops have stayed away from this conference because of Gene Robinson. Shouldn't Gene Robinson resign to allow the 300 bishops to come back to the house?" the Sudanese Archbishop said as he also called for repentance from the American bishops who supported Robinson's consecration in 2003.
Bishop Robinson received news of Archbishop Deng's call just before making an address at the University of Kent's Law School's Centre for the Study of the Law, Gender and Sexuality. He was there as Anglican bishops from around the world meet for the once-a-decade Lambeth Conference at the university. Bishop Robinson was not invited to attend Lambeth but is in Canterbury to attend fringe events.
