Comments on: Conservatives forming rival Episcopal Church

By: Stephen

Stephen — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:29:18 +0000

…and if the Anglican Communion does decide to recognize this new bunch as part of the communion (assuming they would even want to participate), what then? Maybe it really is time for the the original American church to wave good-bye to the communion and let it drown without the American church’s money.

By: Trace

Trace — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:56:44 +0000

Morgan, as is mine.

These groups that have splintered off are not a part of the Communion. They have little in common with how the Church views things.

I hope that the Church is able to seize the property that the renegades believe is theirs.

By: Peter . Zirot

Peter . Zirot — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:26:43 +0000

I guess their God hates us!

By: Toni Van Gogh

Toni Van Gogh — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:21:55 +0000

Sometimes “Division” isn’t a dirty word. Cells divide and diversify in order to improve the body’s ability to thrive in new environments.

By: Morgan

Morgan — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 22:05:40 +0000

My Episcopal church is progay and pro-diversity, has got a fantastic female preacher and that church is where I will remain.

By: BUD BURGOON-CLARK

BUD BURGOON-CLARK — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 20:07:07 +0000

Any church founded upon hatred will not long endure. At present, there are at least FIFTEEN break-away groups in the USA that call themselves “Anglicans.” In reality, they are Puritans/Congregationalists/Calvinist homophobes who have no respect for Scripture, Sacred Tradition, or Reason (the “three-legged stool” of Anglicanism). The Africans and the other “primates” of the Southern Hemisphere are in it for the conservative American money (Ahmanson, Scaife, Coors, etc.). The American clergy are in it for two reasons:

1. So they can be as high-church as they want, and be able to “wear lace all over the place.”

2. They have mitre-itis. They all want to be bishops. They can’t, obviously, but watch this new group splinter (as all the others have done) as egos clash and the available territories are carved into smaller and smaller dioceses.

I know most of the principals; I can’t say that ANY of them have PRINCIPLES. It’s ALL about MONEY and POWER.

Period.

Bud Burgoon-Clark
2nd class citizen
but not in GOD’S eyes

By: John

John — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:59:05 +0000

And you’d think the Roman church would be a perfect fit. Oh, wait, the priests and bishops would have to go sit in the cheap seats again.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 19:41:37 +0000

Yeah, they don’t have enough gay hating churches. Who can blame them? Gotta have 100 preaching HATE to balance out that ONE preaching LOVE. Jesus would be proud!