Written: 5/10/2012
I have a series of posts entitled “Friends don’t let friends stay Catholic: it’s a glorified hate group.” Right now, I think I’m up to five parts. In them, I look at a few different things, originally focusing on the horrific global cover-up of child abuse. Although to be fair, the hate group designation could apply to many, many groups.
However, I’m happy to be Episcopalian. It’s like Catholic Light, without the guilt and with rational thinking. Anglicanism (more on that in a minute) is commonly referred to as a three-legged stool: Tradition, which makes us like that Catholics, Scripture, which makes us like the Protestants and Reason, which is exclusively Anglican, or at least sometimes it seems.
A few years ago, our bigot of a Bishop decided that he had had enough of the Episcopal church: ordaining gay bishops was bad enough, but once we confirmed a woman as the Presiding Bishop (the highest office in the US), that was just too much for him. He split off and is now aligned with an Anglican diocese in South America, while the rest of us (sadly the minority in Pittsburgh) stayed loyal.
But anyway, I’ve been doing some pro bono work with a charity group working within the Episcopal Church to push for LGBT rights, and Rites. Integrity USA is a good organization, and their blog is pretty awesome, here’s the image I wanted to share:
It is nice to see that, and from what I’ve experienced, it’s true.
All my best,
The King of Spades
