Bishop: My way or the highway

Page one of the Washington Times, with extensive coverage also in the Washington Post, details the extensive outrage of an overflow meeting of priests and laity at the behavior of the bishop of Episcopal Church's largest diocese, Virginia.

Bishop Peter Lee has publicly endorsed sodomy-acceptance, both in electing Episcopal bishops and in local option blessing of same sex matrimony.

His method of dealing with their overflow crowd of generally outraged clergy and laity was ecclesiastical totalitarianism.

They were required to wait until he and his two assistant bishops, plus all eight delegates to the shrinking denomination's General Convention had spent 45 minutes promoting this prelate's party line of sodomy-acceptance.

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Then, only one member of each of 30 churches was allowed a grand total of 120 seconds to speak!

The Post reported, "The discord promoted tears, unruly applause and some angry shouts."

Bishop Lee, who has threatened to sue any church which tries to leave the embattled denomination with its property, declared, "The use of money as a weapon of protest has no warrant in the Scriptures."

This, despite Jesus Christ's using a whip to drive dishonest money changers from Jerusalem's Temple.

If this bishop is inclined to sue churches who wish to exercise the First Amendment's free exercise of religion, how will he pay for numerous lawsuits? Will he also try suing all Virginia Episcopalians who refuse to allow their church offerings to be used to pay the large salary of this ecclesiastical advocate of sodomy-acceptance?

This meeting was held at the Virginia Theological Seminary in Alexandria, which retired Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey publicly deplored for allowing sodomy among the students on campus.

Bishop Lee is trying another face-the-parishioners meeting on Tues. Sept. 30 at St. John's Church in McLean. Will he try this sort of thing in Colin Powell's parish?