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To: Tax-chick
My dad's family were originally mostly Methodist, some Baptist, but his mother and father joined the Episcopal church in Rome GA because it had the best choir (they were both professional singers). (The ECUSA church in Rome bagged the name St. Peter's before the Catholics got there . . .) He wasn't exercised at all when we crossed the Tiber, just said, "Do what you have to do."

My folks are in a different ECUSA diocese - their bishop is a live and let live kinda guy who voted against the heretic bishop of N.H. Our former (thank God!) bishop on the other hand is a cheerleader for the homosexual lifestyle who was one of the delegates who showed up uninvited at Nottingham to tell the Anglican conference why they were right and everybody else was benighted and homophobic. It was just so in your face we couldn't tolerate it for another second; besides, why be Catholic Lite when you can be the real thing?

But mom and dad are old and set in their ways and haven't been forced by their bishop to make a decision. Besides, their church owns its own property and has a huge endowment, and they can call the most reactionary Forward In Faith priest in the U.S. if they feel like it.

28 posted on 01/07/2006 12:41:40 PM PST by AnAmericanMother (Ministrix of Ye Chase, TTGC Ladies' Auxiliary (recess appointment))
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To: AnAmericanMother

It's a crazy world out there these days. My mother's Regional Presbytery (Central Florida) discusses ordaining homosexuals every few years, and she insists she'll quit if they do. I'm not sure what her other choices are in that area.


29 posted on 01/07/2006 12:45:03 PM PST by Tax-chick (I am just not sure how to get from here to where we want to be.)
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