A comment at Stand Firm on this article says that David Virtue is not always accurate. Puleeze! As if SFIF is always accurate! Virtue catches a lot of flack at SF, but this is indisputably yeoman's work that we have here. ed.
Quarter of HOB's Reject Nominee
Special Report
By David W. Virtue with Mary Ann Mueller
www.virtueonline.org
4/22/2009
IT is still a horse race and too close to call, but all the indicators are that Kevin Thew Forrester, the lay-trained Buddhist priest who recently substituted a reading from the Quran in place of a New Testament reading, will not receive consents to be the next Bishop of Northern Michigan.
As of today, more than 45 percent of the HOB has responded to VOL's asking where they stood on the issue. 51% approval from all sitting (diocesan) bishops is required in order for Forrester to be elected as a bishop in The Episcopal Church.
All U.S. Episcopal dioceses were directly contacted by VOL staff.
The current tally:
YES.............10
NO.............25
Unknown.............62
Non-voting dioceses.............11
Non-voting bishops.............04
(as of 4/23/09)
Total.............
110
Here is how they have voted to date:
Larry Benfield (Arkansas) No
Peter Beckwith (Springfield) No
D. Bruce MacPherson (Western LA) No
Ed Little (Northern Indiana) No
Paul Marshall (Bethlehem)
"I will not vote" = No.
Charles Jenkins (Louisiana) No
Tom Ely (Vermont) Yes
John W. Howe (Central Florida) No
Mark Lawrence (South Carolina) No
William Love (Albany) No
James Stanton (Dallas) No
Tom Breidenthal (Southern Ohio) No
Gregory Rickel (Olympia) No
James Shand (Easton) No
Edwin F. Gulick (Kentucky) No
James Adams (Western Kansas) No
John Neil Alexander (Atlanta) No
Dabney T. Smith (Southwest Florida) No
Duncan M. Gray III (Mississippi) No
Michael Bruce Curry (North Carolina) No
Geralyn Wolf (Rhode Island) Says she has voted but won't say. She said we can find that out when the National Church makes that public. An insider told VOL that she voted no as it is consistent with her defrocking Ann Holmes Redding (a former Episcopal priest turned Muslim).
Robert Fitzpatrick (Hawaii) NO
Dan Edwards (Nevada) Has cast his vote but will not reveal it.
Carolyn Tanner Irish (Utah) Yes
John Chane (Washington) Yes. This comes with an incredibly rude response from their diocesan flak Jim Naughton who said in a telephone conversation: "The bishop is not interested in responding to Virtueonline."
Andrew D. Smith (Connecticut) No comment. A source said Yes
Tom Shaw (Massachusetts) Yes
F. Neff Powell (Southwest VA) Yes
Marc Andrus (California) Yes
J. Jon Bruno (Los Angeles) Yes
Bruce Caldwell (Wyoming) Yes
Creighton Robertson (South Dakota) Yes
Scott Mayer (Northwest TX) confirmed that he hasn't voted yet.
Robert Gepert (Western Michigan) No Comment.
Dean Wolfe (Kansas) Not voted yet.
Gladstone Adams (Central NY) Not reviewed materials
Russell Jacobus (Fond du Lac) No
Barry Beisner (Northern CA) has not voted as yet.
Leo Frade (SE Florida) Will work with his Standing Committee which meets in mid-May
James Waggoner (Spokane) Out of office
George Councell (New Jersey): No response
James Jelinek (Minnesota) Out of office
Orris Walker (Long Island) Out of office
Holly Hollerith (Southern VA): Not putting out a statement
Dorsey Henderson (Upper SC) Unavailable
Nathan Baxter (Central PA) Out of office
Jeffery Lee (Chicago) Office staff does not know status of bishop's vote
Steven Miller (Milwaukee) On Sabbatical
Franklin Brookhart (Montana) No response to voice mail
Joe Burnett (Nebraska) On Sabbatical
Stephen Lane (Maine) Out of office. Staff does not know status of his vote
Prince Singh (Rochester) Out of office
Mark Beckworth (Newark) Will not state his position
John Bauerschmidt (Tennessee) Out of office
Gary Lillibridge (West Texas) No
G. Porter Taylor (W. North Carolina) Unavailable
Don Jones (West Tennessee) Out of office
Todd Oesley (East Michigan) Did not respond
Philip Duncan (Central Gulf Coast) At a conference
Samuel Taylor Howard (Florida) Out of office
Henry I. Louttit (Georgia) Out of town at Trustees meeting
Stacy Sauls (Lexington) Out of town at National Executive Council
Peter James Lee (Virginia) Did not respond to voice mail
Brian Thom (Idaho) Staff does not know the status of his vote
Mark Sisk (New York) Unavailable for comment
Michael Garrison (Western NY) Out of office
Sean Rowe (Northwest PA) Out of office
Wayne Wright (Delaware)Travelling
Eugene Sutton (Maryland) Waiting on Standing Committee
Mary Gray-Reeves (El Camino Real) Declined to release information
Barry Howe (Western Missouri) Declined to disclose
Michael Smith (North Dakota) Travelling
Edward Konieczny (Oklahoma)
Staff does not know status of his vote
Don Wimberly (Texas) No
James Mathes (San Diego) No
Michie Klusmeyer (West VA.)No Response
Catherine Waynick (Indianapolis) Out of Office
Kirk Smith (Arizona) No response to voice mail
Clifton Daniel III, (East Carolina) Out of office
V. Gene Robinson (New Hampshire) Has voted. Told VOL that 815 would release the result in due time
Henry Parsley (Alabama) Out of office
Robert O’Neill (Colorado)Staff does not know status of vote
Mark Hollinsworth (Ohio)Still has paperwork on his desk
Alan Scrfe (Iowa)No response to voice mail
George Smith (Missouri)Not available
Wendell Gibbs, Jr. (Michigan)Staff does not know status of vote
Gordon Scruton (Western MA)Out of Office
Of the 100 American dioceses, 11 are without a voting Ordinary diocesan bishop leaving 89 with sitting bishops.
They are:
Pennsylvania: +Bennison - Deposed
Quincy: Provisional +Buchanan
San Joaquin: Provisional +Lamb
North Texas (Ft. Worth): Provisional +Gulick
Pittsburgh: Assisting +Johnson
Eastern Oregon: Assisting +Rivera
Oregon: Assisting +Hampton
Eau Claire: Vacant
Rio Grande:Vacant
Northern Michigan:Vacant
Alaska:Vacant
The Bishop of the American Churches in Europe (Pierre Whalon) does not have a vote;
Bishop Packard of the Armed Forces does not have a vote.
The Bishop of Navajoland (+MacDonald) does not have a vote.
Of the 10 foreign dioceses, all have a sitting diocesan bishop each of whom has a vote.
(II) Haiti: +Jean Duracin (Unknown)
(II) Virgin Islands: +Ambrose Gumbs (Unknown)
(VIII) Taiwan: +David Lai (Unknown)
(IX) Columbia: +Francis Gomez (Unknown)
(IX) Central Ecuador: +Wilfrido Ramos-Orench (Unknown)
(IX) Litoral Ecuador: +Alfredo Morante (Unknown)
(IX) Honduras: +Lloyd Allen (Unknown)
(IX) Puerto Rico: +David Alzarez-Valazquez (Unknown)
(IX) Venezuela: +Orlando Guerrero (Unknown)
(IX) Dominican Republic: +Julio Holguin (Unknown)
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2 comments:
Respectfully, DV has a track record of being flamboyantly, spectacularly wrong on some major items in the past. To be fair, he seems to have learned from those experiences, and cleaned up his act by paying more attention to sources. One does not need to be inerrant, or unchristian, to make that cautionary comment. (It was not I who made it, though I nodded my head in agreement.)
Tregonese, Virtue has been wrong on several occasions, as has the children's site. Virtue offers corrections which is not the consistent practice of SF. In fact, SF has been wrong about Rowan Williams, wrong about pecusa, wrong about the Windsor bishops and I could go on. The touchy one's practice when called on these items is to ban those who call attention to SF's errors. For commenting on the touchy one's flagrant hypocrisy on ripping Virtue and not allowing critique of SF I was banned.
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