So then they took up the Beisner consent. The
committee recommended consent, seeing as how the
bishops had already consented. There was a minority
report which is very well written and worth reading,
if you can find it somewhere online. Kendall Harmon
spoke first from the floor, saying [paraphrased] "this
is a broken church, and a broken moment. It's a
question of the wider church, not any particular
diocese. This person could not even serve as a
priest, a priest, in the diocese of South Carolina.
How can we recognize him as a bishop?" Those who
supported Beisner argued something like this: How can
you vote against that face? He's a nice guy, we all
like him, we don't care in N. Cal. about his marital
problems. We kind of like them. He's a niiiiiice
guy, really, so let's just vote him in. They
succeeded. Rhetoric is dead.
Thorpus +
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment