Nominee of the Year for Dumb Ass Awards: Episcopal Church Conventioneers 2012

Speaking of leadership corruption in an earlier post tonight, this was just posted. "Ya can't make this stuff up."  Look to the end of the article and notice their "theological concerns."  It's over.  We'll see where these apostates are in 2030.  We're nominating them for "Dumb Ass of the Year 2012," beating the TBN crew of Baptacostal Hillbillies.  "Contempt" is just and fair.  Satire, sarcasm and ridicule is appropriate.  A church that once was noble is now staffed with clowns.  Anglicans clerics used to be the stupor mundi, the wonder of the world.  Scholarship, deliberativeness, order, decency and decorum.  A wonderful Prayer Book.  Solid hymns. A marvellous cathedral and parish tradition in music, second to none. The old church of George Washington and eleven other U.S. Presidents. Today, American clerics are now the stupiditas mundi, the stupid of the world.  You can be quite sure that the liberals think classicists and Confessionalists are the stupid ones.  For the unacquainted, the hostility and venom of the liberals is substantial.  Check their blogs out.  Apostates and time to say it, "Dumb Asses," the lot of you.

http://www.christianpost.com/news/episcopalians-call-for-repeal-of-doma-approve-rites-for-pet-funerals-78195/

Episcopalians Call for Repeal of DOMA; Approve Rites for Pet Funerals

By Audrey Barrick , Christian Post Reporter

July 13, 2012|11:41 am

The Episcopal Church's 77th General Convention concluded Thursday with the adoption of a long list of resolutions, from one that calls on the U.S. Congress to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act to another providing rites for pet funerals.

Episcopal leaders, who met in Indianapolis for over a week, considered dozens of resolutions – the most controversial being the approval of transgender ordination and rites for the blessing of same-sex unions.

In protest, leaders from the Diocese of South Carolina, including its bishop, left the convention early after expressing clearly their belief that the decisions mark a departure from Scripture and Anglican tradition.

"These resolutions in my opinion are disconcerting changes to the doctrine, discipline and worship of the Episcopal Church – to which every bishop, priest and deacon is asked to conform," said S.C. Bishop the Rt. Rev. Mark J. Lawrence. "More importantly they mark a departure from the doctrine, discipline and worship of Christ as this Church has received them, therein making it necessary for me to strongly differentiate myself from such actions."

Twelve other bishops also released a report to record their dissent.

The Rt. Rev. Michael G. Smith, bishop of North Dakota, stated that the approved resolution on same-sex blessings makes it much harder for them to persuade theological conservatives to remain in The Episcopal Church.

"We struggle to hold together the evangelical faith of the Church, from which we see this Convention as departing, and the catholic order of the Church, which causes us, for the sake of the unity for which Jesus prayed, to resist the temptation to leave this fellowship," he said Wednesday, according to the Episcopal News Service.

Other resolutions passed during the convention include:

• A call to halt the use of racial profiling and the practice of detaining people suspected of being in the country illegally
• A call to Congress to repeal federal laws (including DOMA) that have a discriminatory effect on same-gender civilly married couples
• Creating a task force to "re-imagine" its structures, governance and administration
• A reaffirmation of baptism as the normative entry point to receiving Holy Communion
• Making available liturgical materials to provide pastoral responses to people with animals, including at the time of their death
• Challenging every congregation to use social media

The Episcopal Church is the U.S. body of Anglicanism. Its membership has been in decline for decades and is currently at under 2 million. The General Convention is its governing body and meets every three years.