Donald Philip
Veitch
125 Kemberly
Court
Jacksonville,
North Carolina 28540
reformationtoday@yahoo.com 910-265-8939
10
May 2012
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Reverend W. Francis Malooly, D.D.
c/o
Patricia Bossi-Smedley, Administrative Assistant
1925
Delaware Avenue
Wilmington,
DE 19889
302-573-3100
I write as a well educated Anglican Churchman. I’ve done my time in the books and graduate schools. I am retired and read for a living.
While we have profound and unbridgeable doctrinal differences, we share immoveable commitments in the area of conception, life, abortion, marriage, and human sexuality. In vivid contrast to these shared views between us, I have in mind the beliefs, actions and public words of Mr. Joseph Biden, the Vice President of the United States of America.
Sir, if Mr. Biden belonged to my congregation over which I presided, he would be placed under “church discipline” and would be refused access to the holy sacrament of the Eucharist or, as Reformed Anglicans prefer to say, the “Order for Holy Communion.”
I realize the
liberal Episcopal Church, as are other mainliners, are afoul, defanged, and
retrograde on important issues.
When we will Roman
Catholic Archbishops and Bishops exercise disciplinary influences on persons
under their cognizance, such as Mr. Biden?
Or, Ms. Pelosi?
Aside from Roman
Catholic churches, I suggest the same for all Confessional and Creedal churches:
church discipline for these leaders who mislead, fail and, by turns, subvert
the next generation by silence, inconsistency, and relativism. This applies to two issues: (1) abortion and (2) homoerotic marriages.
The time has come
to take stands, as did St. Ambrose of Milan with Theodosius 1 and the genocidal
and unjustifiable homocides at Thessalonica, Greece? Sir, as theologians, we know of Ambrose’s
integrity and courage.
Will you, Sir, be a
modern Ambrose? It is time for Creedal Churchmen to take a stand.
The next generation needs to hear not silence, but appropriate words.
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