Inclusive Love in Colorado

David Virtue reports:

Things are heating up again in the DIOCESE OF COLORADO. This past week Bishop Rob O'Neill swooped in on the parish of Grace and St. Stephens. With a warrant in hand, he got Police to remove computers and files relating to the church's finances. O'Neill is bound and determined to get the Rev. Don Armstrong. He inhibited Fr. Armstrong on Christmas (December 27th, 2007). Now he has ruined their celebrations once again - this time on THANKSGIVING 2008. The bishop's sense of timing would be outrageous, if it weren't so banal.

Bishop O'Neill's paranoia doesn't end there. VOL has learned that following the police raid, the opposing attorney asked that Fr. Armstrong be searched for weapons when he is present at depositions. It is ironic, the orthodox always leaves retribution to the Lord. The Police also invaded the rectory and tossed its contents. "It was like a home invasion," a source told VOL.

Another source told VOL that Bishop O'Neill is a man obsessed. There is little trust of him left among his clergy. He is spending the diocese's future and his episcopate in enraged revenge, VOL was told.

Fr. Armstrong took his parish out of The Episcopal Church and aligned with the Province of the Southern Cone over TEC's consecration of homosexual bishop Gene Robinson. O'Neill has been trying for two years to get him off the property. This is the second time he has gone after the church's books hoping to find evidence that Armstrong pocketed money for his own use. A fiduciary audit of the books, last year revealed nothing. Armstrong remains in his church with the full support of his vestry and congregation, much to O'Neil's annoyance. Unofficial records show that O'Neill has spent upwards of $2 million in lawyers trying to reclaim the parish.