Posted on 11/13/2005 11:32:26 PM PST by WaterDragon
In a meeting last week in Pittsburgh, an international panel of prominent Anglicans has called for an open break between members of the Anglican Communion and what they view as the wayward Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States. The meeting was hosted by the Bishop Duncan of Pittsburgh and presided over by seven archbishops from the West Indies, South East Asia, and Africa.
The collapse of the authority and membership of mainstream churches in the United States has paralleled the collapse of the influence of other institutions from the media to academia as a yawning gap has continued to open up in the past half century between their actions and their announced goals.
The sad huddle of affluent bedwetters, thumbsuckers, treehuggers, social climbers, homophiles, quavery ladies, and chronic petition signers that makes up the current Episcopal Church is no exception.....
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
Sounds like the mainstream of today's Democrat Party.
there is some overlap, I believe...
Thanks for posting this superb oped by Thomas Lipscomb!
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