Posted on 02/11/2017 6:10:23 PM PST by marshmallow
The Episcopal General Convention is scheduled to meet next summer in Austin, the Lone Star State's capitol city, where July temperatures easily soar into the triple digits beneath a blazing Texas sun suspended in a cloudless azure sky.
However, as the Episcopal Executive Council prepared to meet in Lithicum Heights, Maryland, the two presiding officers of General Convention -- Presiding Bishop Michael Curry and House of Deputies President Gay Clark Jennings -- penned a joint letter to the Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives, Joe Straus (R-San Antonio) protesting Texas' latest privacy bill which, if passed, would "require Texas residents to use bathrooms according to their sex designation on their birth certificate. It would also prohibit local governments from passing laws that protect gay rights in 'intimate settings' such as public restrooms."
The "Texas Privacy Act," was launched on Jan. 5 as Senate Bill 6, by Lois Kolkhorst (R-Brenham) and is strongly supported by Texas Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick. The lieutenant governor, a Baptist, is also the president of the Texas Senate.
"If passed," the Austin Chronicle reports, "SB 6 will overwrite local nondiscrimination ordinances in cities like Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio."
By percentage (5.3%) Austin has the third largest homosexuals/bisexuals/and so called transgenders population of any American city. It ranks third behind Portland, Oregon (5.4%) and San Francisco (6.2%)
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Let them make good on their threat.
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Maybe they can have their convention in Chicago or Compton.
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ECUSA—wholly owned and operated by George Soros and John Podesta.
Move.
I am very uneasy about the fact that this is Gorsuch’s “church”. Rev Wright comes to mind.
Sounds like those philosophy majors really mean business.
Have a world wide conference in.Saudi Arabia....
The NFL has made a threat to Texas about this also, Goodell is such an a-hole.
Let them move their convention to Lund, Sweden this year. That way Pope Francis can address them in person.
The best response from Texas would be to do as the other formerly Episcopalian Anglicans have done: tell the Episcopal church to go get knotted, and embrace the very conservative African Anglican dioceses as “missionary churches”.
Right now, some of the already enormous African dioceses are growing by hundreds of thousands every year as former black Muslims are converting to Christianity. Islam is just hemorrhaging black followers in Africa, and many of them are becoming Anglicans.
But this means they cannot build churches fast enough. Only the schism in the US Episcopal church resulted in the new missionary African Anglican churches (formerly Episcopalian) sending a lot of money to Africa, where it is put to very good use.
So what should Texas do? Instead of hosting the Episcopal General Convention, offer to host a convention of the African Anglican missionary churches. Many of these congregations are almost all white and well to do, and care very much about their African bishops and archbishops, and supporting their good works in Africa.
By supporting them, Texans can show their support for Christianity in the face of Islamic oppression. Instead of the decaying liberal Episcopalian church.
Gov Abbott, just tell them to shove it where the sun don’t shine.
Tell the fags to take their “convention” somewhere else. Texans don’t want grown men using the same bathrooms that their little daughters are using. If they want to pee in the ladies room, they can move their “convention” to San Francisco.
I’d call them the incredible shrinking church, but it probably isn’t accurate to call them a church at this point.
In the mid-1960s they had about 3.4 million members.
Average weekly attendance in 2015 - 579,780 (although membership rolls will be higher with dead folks and folks that haven’t darkened the doors in decades)
An important even in the Episcopal split was the “Plano Conference” (although I think they had to move it to Dallas when it turned out to be larger than any Plano facilities could accommodate). And to the best of my recollection, all but 3 of the churches under the Fort Worth bishop departed. As did the Bishop.
We a Texans are meanies.
A lot if us don’t agree that insanity is a bad thing.
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