I stand corrected

I suggested in a comment about Questions for Bishop Adams that Bishop Clumber was a fictitious person. It turns out that the good bishop is the first canine bishop of pecusa. With all that's going on in pecusa I guess I shouldn't be surprised.

The post below was written by Bishop Clumber about a resolution brought to the 2006 Annual Convention of the DCNY. Our parish was the one who brought forth the resolution mentioned below. And yes, the chancellor of the DCNY was unable to mention any specific canons violated by our resolution. ed.


For Shame

Published 16 March 2007

Last fall I got to attend our diocesean convention, although without voice or vote (but I was able to growl and snarl a bit). One of our churches proposed a resolution whereby their church could seek an alternative bishop’s oversight. Now this was not a last second resolution proposed on the floor. It also was not a surprise to anyone, I believe. The chancellor was given the mic and ruled that he believed the convention did not have canonical authority to vote on the resolution and it was thrown over to be “committee-ed”. The priest who proposed the resolution asked for the specific canons whereby the convention could not vote and was given sort of a bum’s rush with a bit of hand waving and mumbling and no clear elucidation of whereby they had erred in their request.

You should understand, I don’t really like this whole right wing movement. I also don’t like their fundamentalist bent on scripture and morals. I don’t like being lectured on what the Bible “really means”. But the way I see it, shoddy treatment is shoddy treatment. The parish deserved a straight answer, and the bishop and chancellor gave them less than that.