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The Peculiar Peculations of PECUSA
The American Spectator ^ | November 14, 2005 | Thomas Lipscomb

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 ...


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KEYWORDS: breaks; church; embezzlement; episcopals; radicals

1 posted on 11/13/2005 11:32:26 PM PST by WaterDragon
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To: WaterDragon
sad huddle of affluent bedwetters, thumbsuckers, treehuggers, social climbers, homophiles, quavery ladies, and chronic petition signers

Sounds like the mainstream of today's Democrat Party.

2 posted on 11/14/2005 6:53:40 AM PST by madprof98
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To: madprof98

there is some overlap, I believe...


3 posted on 11/14/2005 7:06:11 AM PST by Knitting A Conundrum (Act Justly, Love Mercy, and Walk Humbly With God Micah 6:8)
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4 posted on 11/14/2005 10:30:03 AM PST by sionnsar (†trad-anglican.faithweb.com† || (To Libs:) You are failing to celebrate MY diversity! || Iran Azadi)
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To: WaterDragon

Thanks for posting this superb oped by Thomas Lipscomb!


5 posted on 11/14/2005 3:31:02 PM PST by Grampa Dave (MSM/RATs need to set a timetable for withdrawal in their illegitimate war on Bush. It's a quagmire.)
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