PRO-FAMILY EPISCOPALIANS: “THREATENING TO STAY”
June 14th, 2006 by Peter
The U.S. Episcopal Church’s General Convention begins this week. Today’s Courant has a piece on delegates from Connecticut, where the Church has been shaken by the pro same-sex “marriage” bishop’s take over of a pro-family parish:
State Episcopalians are split over Connecticut Bishop Andrew Smith’s vote in support of the 2003 consecration of Robinson, the first Episcopal bishop who is an openly gay man. Six priests rejected Smith’s leadership because of the vote. The state diocese later took control of a dissenting priest’s parish, St. John’s in Bristol, citing financial irregularities.
One state resident at the convention is Louine King of Simsbury, a conservative Episcopalian who wants to see the church dramatically reverse course. She is a member of “St. John’s in Exile,” a group that formed when the Bristol congregation split following the takeover by the Connecticut diocese.
“I think the liberal revisionist faction of the Episcopal Church wishes we would get the heck out and leave them alone and let their heretical theology have its full sway,” she said. “The conservative Orthodox are a minority, but we are not threatening to leave. We are threatening to stay.”
