Episcopalians elect 1st female leader

Yahoo News & Associated Press ^ | 18 June 2006 | Rachel Zoll

[newzjunkey]

Wow! She sounds like a grand choice! (/sarcasm)

[Tom D.]

I think you are referring to Ron Pilillo from Welcome Back Kotter:

I am a radical Episcopalian. I firmly believe in the theology of the Anglican community. I believe that the Rt. Rev. Schori is in over her head. Not that she is not bright; she is extremely smart, but she has little experience in the pulpit and less experience in the office of bishop. She comes from the environmental movement that believes that it is right no matter who disagrees with it and that they are on the side of God. I do not want schism in the American Episcopal Church. I fear it is going to happen. Consider that the American Episcopal Church found a way to stay together during the run up to the War Between the States and through that awful period. It is a farce to see us split over homosexual rights when we stayed united through the awful period of 1850 to 1880.

[aimhigh]

In 2003, her diocesan convention address clearly redefines marriage and underscores that truth is ever evolving.

Pure liberalism - truth can become what ever you want it to be.

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[Tahoe3002]

Female Leader seems to be an oxymoron. Other than Margaret Thatcher, and Condi Rice, there are not many women I consider leaders. Good, competent managers, no problem (well sometimes) but not leaders.

I knew lots of women who were officers in the USMC, (yeah it was 20+ years ago)but I can't recall but one (Lt Col Vera Jones) that came close to being a true leader. And I don't believe 20 years of feminism has changed women into leaders, at least to the point men will do more than follow orders. Elvis has left the building.

[Malesherbes]

All this is very sad. The Archbishop of Canterbury recently complained that we live in a "toxic" time. Of course, he had earlier apologized to Moslems for past Christian efforts to convert them.

[sgtyork]

is clearly committed to a new consensus in the Communion that embraces progressive, revisionist theology.

Ewwww, lets have more of this progressive revisionist theology. That's the ticket. Give me that old time progressive, revisionist religion!

[Pontiac]

Katharine Jefferts Schori, 51, was consecrated the ninth Bishop of Nevada on February 24, 2001. She serves a diocese of some 6,000 members in 35 congregations.

No wonder she was able to get elected. That is a really small Diocese.

If you figure 50 % turnout that’s 3000 voters, it would not take much of an activist push to get an unpopular candidate elected.

[Canedawg]

"Well she does look pretty butch"

There's the oxymoron of the day.

[mgstarr]

This is why I left the Episcopal Church - should have done it 30 years earlier. Yep the election of a female leader is really going to make up for the apostate Robinson.

[Mazi83]

"Female Leader seems to be an oxymoron."

Kind of like open-minded man?

[longtermmemmory]

episcopal church her husband is a woman.

[longtermmemmory]

I think you are correct.

I think her election is a piss in the eye of conservatives. She is a slap to try and equate the homosexual priests with women priests.

I think it is really simple, men pay for the priest at weddings, so men need to refuse homosexual or female priests.

Talk with the wallet.

[RFEngineer]

"Could you please correct my spelling in the title of "Episcopalians"?"

"Atheists"

[Irene Adler]

"I think her election is a piss in the eye of conservatives. She is a slap to try and equate the homosexual priests with women priests."

You are exactly right. I am an ex-Episcopalian, now Mo. Synod Lutheran. This action is a big FU to the rest of the Anglican Communion. This is the kind of move lefties LIVE for.

[mathurine]

There is a lot of money in endowments and property at stake here. The people who left the money to the church are probably as spastic in their graves as the dead can be. The people taking over know what they are doing, and know how to make themselves financially successful with little effort or risk.

[BenLurkin]

That was my first thought.

[longtermmemmory]

I do guarantee all future endowments will be written to specificall adress these types of herretical issues.

Imagine the "priests" being advised that their endowment was at risk if they allowed homosexual priests.

[Tahoe3002]

I am open minded........and experienced.

[KC Burke]

Of course, you are failing to note that there are some very significant women priests in the ECUSA that are on the orthodox side in this issue and fighting tooth-and-nail against the path that Griswald started this denomination down three years ago with the approval of Vicky Gene Robinson (yes, dear readers, that is his real name).