Well, this is different. Saints get voted into heaven?
Ping!
Marshall also voted for Roe vs Wade (in favor of abortion, that is). And now the ECUSA wants to make him a saint?? This man has the blood of 40+ million dead babies on his hands. Just disgusting . . .
Hard to imagine a saint "who never spoke publicly about his faith."
Oh, good grief.
Hmmmmmm...and this is a person the CofE wants as a saint???
While Thurgood Marshall is certainly an important and praiseworthy man for helping to end segregation, I find it preposterous that this qualifies him for sainthood.
Obviously, the proponents of sainthood fo Marshall are trying to strike a blow for liberal judicial activism by endowing a liberal justice with an aura of holiness. Marshall almost always voted the left-liberal line when he was on the Supreme Court. If Marshall is a saint, does this mean that anyone who voted the opposite of how he voted (like William Rehnquist) was acting against the will of God?
It's a PC sideshow. In the Catholic Church, evidence of two miracles is required to qualify for sainthood. The criteria of the Episocpals seems completely subjective. After all, if Marshall is worthy of sainthood based on his personal faith why not Antonin Scalia. Scalia's faith is well known, and the standard used here makes no sense.
I don't really understand the Epicopalian method for sainthood, and I am very shocked to find that it differs so dramatically from Catholicism's.
There is little doubt that Thurgood Marshall was a champion of racial equality, but does that really make a person a saint? He did nothing, so far as I am aware, to champion Christianity. Moreover, he voted in favor of abortion in Roe v. Wade and subsequent abortion cases. It just seems to me that the notion of naming him a saint is going WAY TOO FAR. I can think of many other Anglicans (C.S. Lewis, Oswald Chambers) who would seem far more deserving than Marshall. I am very leary of the idea of making sainthood a popularity contest.
>> The diocese said Thurgood Marshall didn't speak publicly about his faith <<
'nuff said.
What kind of "church" would do this...a church looking for publicity and donations.
This is the church of what?