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To: AnAmericanMother

All you have to do is look at Robinson to see that he is a gay narcissist.

But he didn’t elect himself.

I’ve been at war with the TEC for 20 years. I’m still an Episcopalian but I don’t have to like the national church.


20 posted on 01/03/2011 7:56:29 AM PST by altura
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To: altura
Here's the problem with "I hate the national church but my parish is o.k."

Your parish will be o.k. until your rector retires. THEN you are going to have a big problem.

An Episcopal minister cannot be ordained without the national church's approval. This is the 'big stick' by which they control the seminaries.

Several years ago, TEC stopped approving candidates for ordination from Nashotah House and TSM. So the pool of available orthodox candidates inside TEC is frozen and will inevitable disappear. Nashotah and TSM are staying alive by training candidates for the various splinter Anglican groups, but Nashotah at least is going to have a big problem because they are traditionally high and most of the splinter groups are low church or evangelical.

Our former parish went screamingly left wing when the rector retired. They also began to abandon the "high church" ritual and theology.

So now we're happy Catholics. That may not be an alternative if you're not high church. - We were nosebleed high and a meeting with our new rector revealed that the only matters of doctrine on which we differed were the supremacy of the Pope and the validity of Anglican orders.

21 posted on 01/03/2011 8:14:42 AM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of ye Chasse, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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