The Episcopal Church and Abortion
Christianity, General June 20th, 2006"We are deputized to follow the Holy Spirit, not the wishes of the folks back home."
Rev. Canon Elizabeth Keaton- ECUSA minister from the Diocese of Newark (source)
After commenting on how local parishes may not favor abortion, this lady made the above quote. I must say that associating the Holy Spirit with abortion rights is a new low and also quite blasphemous. I believe the spirit she’s referring to is the spirit of the age (or far worse).
Sadly, it appears that the Episcopal Church is going to keep its affiliation with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, a "religious" abortion advocacy group, as well. If the convention refuses to repeal the executive decision to affiliate with the RCRC, it would make the Episcopal Church de facto pro abortion.
June 20th, 2006 at 12:39 pm
Blasphemy
The blogger at Ancient and Future Catholic Musings has found this horrific quote that shocks not in its content (which has been, sadly, long understood) but in its boldness:We are deputized to follow the Holy Spirit, not the wishes of the folks back ho…
June 20th, 2006 at 6:41 pm
Hey man, that same diocese produced John Shelby Spong who denies the resurrection ever happened.
June 21st, 2006 at 4:43 pm
ugh.
June 23rd, 2006 at 4:03 am
The portion of the article that jumped out at me was the following: “The document adds, “You are to claim your godlike, God-given role in creation by saying yes or no, secure in the knowledge that whatever you decide, after having honestly sought what is right, God will bless.”
“Or no?” That’s not a role in creation. That’s a denial of creation. What if Mary had said no? There would have been no Jesus!
July 7th, 2006 at 12:41 pm
I was cycling July 4th, 2006, in Topeka, KS, trying to find-out why they didn’t have a ‘Go Fourth’ at WU, and found a dead, baby doll with one arm on Mayberry Street, the other one was broken-off. I guess you could make TEN-thousand-one statements of what that symbolizes. I hung it up on a hook, which is how I wanna be martyred (hung, shot, guillotined, or pulled-apart by four-horses when a shotgun is fired. Guess you‘d call that ‘Quarter-Horsing-Around’ HawrHawr).
Nevertheless, my interpretation is this: America, in her infancy, with all of her idolatry, has no bloody idea of how much we owe the King of Kings, God Almighty, for our well-being in this Land-of-the-Free; That also makes me realize, by her lying broken in the street, how flagrantly callous we are toward the unborn, as the girls in short-shorts practically wanna. “Who the hell’s God? Do I even need Him?” they proclaim. There were monks, too, in the Middle Ages, even now, who have literal skulls on their desk to remind them they’re passing-away into the dust of yesterday. If you don’t know, don’t even care, far too concerned with your cheap car, clothes, cash, condoms, calumny… “SoBeIt,” saith the Trinity. “Let the Angel of Death descend.”
I’m very angry due to our happy, intoxicated society which has replaced God with MSNBC.
IN HOC SIGNO + VINCES: Crux Sacre Sit Mihi Lux! Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam!!!