Spinning Wheel, Got to Go Round....

A little explanation - TEO stands for The Episcopal Organization. This is like my occasional use of The Episcopal Fraud.

From Still on Patrol (blog) via Stand Firm:

July 21, 2009


As I read more and more the efforts of certain Bishops within TEO to "explain" that D025 supposedly does NOT repudiate B033 from Gen Con 06 and does NOT lift a moratorium of consecration of gay bishops until one is actually elected, I keep hearing that great Blood, Sweat & Tears tune, "Spinning Wheel":

What goes up must come down
spinning wheel got to go round
Talking about your troubles it's a crying sin
Ride a painted pony
Let the spinning wheel spin

You got no money, and you, you got no home
Spinning wheel all alone
Talking about your troubles and you, you never learn
Ride a painted pony
let the spinning wheel turn

Did you find a directing sign
on the straight and narrow highway?
Would you mind a reflecting sign
Just let it shine within your mind
And show you the colours that are real

Someone is waiting just for you
spinning wheel is spinning true
Drop all your troubles, by the river side
Catch a painted pony
On the spinning wheel ride

Anyway, it never ceases to amaze me the level of arrogance these Bishops have, and how stupid they must think the rest of the world is. Unlike those medieval times when Bishops could get away with such things because few people could read at all, much less read in Latin, Greek, or Hebrew, over the last, say, as few as twenty years they should have learned that the people are no longer willing to be treated like mushrooms (kept in the dark and having crap dumped on them).

We can read D025, and we did read B033. As Bishop Coadjutor Shannon Johnson stood and said (to no response) in the HOB session (see video on Stand Firm), there is no question but that D025 clearly and directly repudiates any notion of a moratorium on consecration of gay bishops. Merely because it does not include a direct reference to B033, and does not use the words "repudiate" or even "moratorium", the so-called "expression of the mind of the Episcopal Church in 2009" leaves no legitimate question whatsoever of what will happen when the inevitable occurs, and another gay bishop is elected.

Clearly, I am offended by the repudiations of Christianity by the High Priestess and her misguided minions. I am offended by their wanton destruction of an historic church and their disregard for the thousands of parishioners who have spent their lives in its pews only to have its theology hijacked by a revisionist mob. And, even though I am no longer Episcopalian, I am offended at the insulting arrogance and lack of concern held by these Bishops in putting this ridiculous spin on D025.

Their goal is as transparent as it is spineless - they are trying to pull more wool over the already-woolly head of the Archbishop of Canterbury, in hopes of sparing themselves a reprimand for their clear slap in his face by rejecting his personal plea made to them in his speech at the opening of the Convention. While I concur with Greg Griffith in his estimation that ++Williams will do nothing of substance, with the C of E's pending motion to recognize ACNA, TEO will try to camouflage and spin its actions as much as they can to try to hold onto its claim for use of the Anglican brand. Or, as Bishop N.T. Wright put it, TEO will try to fool everyone by claiming to still be Anglican even while re-writing the rules to suit themselves and their secular-political agenda.

At this point in the "listening" game, the rest of the Anglican Communion should apply the old saw to the revisionist side of TEO: "How do you tell when a revisionist TEO Bishop is lying?" "His/her mouth is moving." Do these fools actually believe that anyone is buying it? Apparently so, and they do so because with ++Williams it has worked before. In the aftermath of the Windsor Report, and Dar Es Salaam, he bought into their duplicity in New Orleans, even as the rest of the world was making reference to bovine fecal material.

It is growing increasingly difficult to determine whether more bovine fecal material is being generated in the public explanations of a session of Congress, or of the TEO General Convention. Either way, we should all be well-beyond sick of being lied to, or being treated as if we were felony-stupid. I would hope that even Rowan Williams is pretty fed up with it, but I'm not going to bet hard-earned dollars on it.