Comments on: Meeting considers future of SC Episcopal diocese

By: Liam Sauer-Wooden

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 20:26:49 +0000

I was born in and grew up in SC. Were it to physically break off and immediately sink in the ocean, it would be an event of progress for the USA.

By: wredman-gress

wredman-gress — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:02:54 +0000

Here’s a link to as good assessment of the situation in SC: http://www.scepiscopalians.com/The_Church_Dishonest.html

By: marcus99

marcus99 — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:35:16 +0000

I was publicly involved in debating the Catholic Bishop on civl rights and marriage in NB, Canada, when those hell fires were raging up here (since doused).

It is important to undersatand that the dichotomy is not hate/love. It is more like leader/follower.

In my debate, it became evident that the people in the perws were not synonomous with the people wearing the pointy bishop hats. Many rank and file parishoners thanked me for my views, and in some small ways (I like to think) helped the cause from behind the scenes.

We must reach out to those in the pews, while systematically challenging their leadership.

Tarring the whole lot as haters is both unproductive and (in my experience) untrue.

By: randy

randy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:24:20 +0000

Jesus: “I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against her mother”.

What did you expect?

By: Raymond H. Clark

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:30:57 +0000

“Many conservative Episcopalians believe Scripture forbids same-sex relationships.”

But it was just fine to own slaves, oppress women, oppose integration, etc. BECAUSE THE BIBLE SEZ SO.

They’re no better than brain dead Suthren Babdists (sic).

Rusty Burgoon-Clark
Queer married HIGH-Church Episcopalian
San Diego CA USA

By: Decatur_Gator

Decatur_Gator — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 23:07:01 +0000

These resolutions are simply ploys by the SC diocese to maintain its hold on the church properties. If they left the ECUSA, they would lose their properties and their pensions. Unless, of course, they can do like Virginians, and rely on some Civil War-era law that lets them break from the national church, as did the Confederates.

By: michaelnDallas

michaelnDallas — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:14:35 +0000

Can’t you just feel the love of Christ?

By: Alex_Parrish

Alex_Parrish — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:25:21 +0000

Why not just take your hate and leave ECUSA? Your bigotry and purposeful mis-reading of holy writ will not be missed. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass on the way out!