Posted on 01/23/2006 4:54:36 PM PST by LouAvul
NEW YORK (AP) - Episcopalians from a church where the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall worshipped are asking their denomination to name him a saint.
Marshall, who died in 1993, was a towering figure in the civil rights movement and the first black justice to sit on the nation's highest court.
Members of St. Augustine's Church in Washington, D.C., will seek initial approval for the honor Friday from delegates to the convention of the Episcopal Diocese of Washington.
Two consecutive meetings of the denomination's national legislature - which gathers every three years - will then consider the proposal.
"His Christian faith was deep inside his being and it was this faith which was the foundation and source of his energetic pursuit of justice," said the Rev. Thomas Smith, retired rector of St. Augustine's.
If approved, Marshall's name would be added to the Book of Lesser Feasts and Fasts, a primary worship book for the New York-based denomination. A feast day in his honor would be celebrated May 17, the anniversary of his victory in Brown v. Board of Education.
In the landmark 1954 case, attorney Marshall argued that the high court should overturn racial segregation in public schools. He was named a Supreme Court justice in 1967.
Criteria for Episcopal sainthood include whether the nominee was an "extraordinary or even heroic" servant of God and whether the person served humanity on behalf of Christ, according to the worship book.
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I think it helps to be real PC too. Mother Teresa would never make it, but Teresa Heinz Kerry surely would.
Better him than V. Gene Robinson.
Thurgood was a staunch supporter of abortion rights--the right to kill the unborn.
Do they want to make him the patron saint of abortion mills?
Marshall voted for abortion!
The idea of sainthood for one of the people most responsible for the slaughter of a 100 million innocent babies is laughable!
patron saint of aborted babies !
if it wasn't so sad, it would be funny.
Episcopalians don't need miracles?
45 million innocent children killed because of Marshall. Well, it would be typical of a church that has abandoned most other ancient morals and teachings as well to name such a monster a saint.
How about sainthood for Dick Gregory instead. At least he was funny.
How do you know that the "Book of Daniel" church won't nominate V. Eugene Robinson for sainthood?
Wasn't he also found to have pretty much neglected his duties as SCOTUS Justice and let his clerks determine the opinions?
Pure Pap. However, I think it shows the hypocrisy that is the left that only minorities can admit their religion influences their public lives.
You are right about that, most members of ECUSA are not Christian, it breaks my heart, I am just glad not to be there any longer. Now that ECUSA is out in the open about gay issue, their true beliefs are really coming out on other issues also, at least in my former parish. I have never seen a church try so hard to disprove God
They're smoking crack..
This may be an irritation, but it is a minor one, at best. The Episcopal Church is a faltering and dying church. And from such a body, its best to ignore its foolishness.
GREAT!!!!!the abortion movements first saint...Wow.I guess that would mean that God hates babies and its okay to murder minorties through abortion...Can't wait for that...
Wow, that includes a lot of folks.
Say what?
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