Creepy doings at Lambeth

Wow. It's like the American delegation has been able to create a church that's not about God, and just plain old humanly offensive too. I hope reverent Episcopalians wise up and swim the Tiber (with or without water wings, just hurry).

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/losses-at-lambeth/83118/

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If there's one thing on which the fractured pool of Anglican bishops can agree, it's that the Lambeth Conference is an enormous waste of time and money. Lambeth — named for the Archbishop of Canterbury's opulent London palace — is the once-a-decade gathering of the bishops of the Anglican Communion, of which the Episcopal Church here in America is a small part.

Sadly, it's the New York City-area Episcopalian delegation to Lambeth that is to blame — once again — for ruining the conference. This time around it was the antics of the suffragan bishop from the Diocese of New York, Catherine Roskam. At a Lambeth workshop late last week, Ms. Roskam told the crowd that men beat women "because they can."

According to a report in the Times of London, Ms. Roskam shocked and dismayed her fellow bishops with the following tirade: "We have 700 men here. Do you think any of them beat their wives? Chances are they do. The most devout Christians beat their wives ... many of our bishops come from places where it is culturally acceptable to beat your wife." She may be right that such places exist. The problem is that the bishop was making sweeping allegations about groups, not individuals.

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Read the whole article. The whole Church of England/Episcopal nightmare could be titled "Legends of a church that forgot all about God and became just plain mean and falsely self righteous instead." Ugh. Bleah.