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If confirmed, he will not be the first homosexual bishop. In fact, he will probably not be the only serving homosexual bishop. He will, however, be the first acknowledged, opening practicing homosexual bishop. And one who abandoned his wife and children to boot.

What this says about the Episcopal Church of the United States is profound. It has been for some time a church that has abandoned the beliefs, doctrine, creed, and liturgy of its tradition. It has embraced secular humanism and moral relativism. It has abandoned God. I doubt that a majority of its clergy believe that there is a God. Certainly the bishops don't. This is why many, including myself have walked away. The institution will hang on because of the property that it owns and its endowments - but it is already dead as a House of God.

My family left the Episcopal Church about 15 years ago after the Pastor said, "The Bible is not the Word of God, but a history of man's efforts to find God."

This Pastor was one of the most dedicated humanitarian I have known, and he really loved people, but he did not accept the reality of God and the Scriptures. My shame was that I was the chairman of the committee that called him.

This followed closely after our 12 year old son came home from his confirmation in a sad mood. When asked, he said that none of the 10 or so kids in his confirmation class really believed, but were going through the motions. He wanted to quit and find a "real church". He said they had hung athesist rock star posters in the Sunday School room.

The final decision was speeded up by Bishop John Spong of New Jersey. Of his many writings the one that said that the church needed to get rid of the "icons" like the virgin birth and the physical bodily resurrection of Jesus. It seems that it did not matter if there was a physical resurrection of Jesus. One "theologian" said that it was the resurrection in his heart that really mattered.

I ended up writing a 20 page paper on why I left the Episcopal Church....

Amen! The headline in my local paper read: Man of the People referring to Bishop Sullivan, retiring as Catholic Bishop of the Archdiocese of Richmond. Sullivan, long hailed by the press for his Liberalism, is forced to retire at 75. I though, “How very fitting.” He was a man of the people – like any other politician. But as the headline writer inadvertently admitted, this church leader will not go down in history as a man of God.