Episcopalians Against Equality -- By Harold Meyerson
This from the Washington Post:
Don't look now, but Virginia is seceding again.
On Sunday nine Episcopal parishes in Virginia, including the one where George Washington served as a vestryman, announced that they had voted to up and leave the U.S. Episcopal Church to protest its increasingly equal treatment of homosexuals.
see: here for complete text.
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hmmmmmmm--
Who's birth are we celebrating tomorrow? Oh, right, Joshua bar Joseph. Remember him?
And, who was it that this same Joshua called out?
Oh, yes, people who used the Temple for politics and personal profit and those who tried to deny God's love to people who were different from themselves. Everyone else he accepted unconditionally.
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2 comments:
I've read this article in the Post. I have kind of a mixed reaction. On the one hand, I believe the First Amendment of the Constitution gives these congregations the right to set their own dogma. On the other hand, I agree completely with TC's position that Jesus would reject the hypocrisy of these congregations.
yes, they have the right to set their own dogma. I don't dispute that.
I also note that the Southern Baptists had the right to split from the American Baptists because the A. Baptists wouldn't agree with them about the issue of slavery.
history has, imnsho, shown us the difference between having a right and doing right.
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