SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

The Episcopal Organization demands public funding for one of its sacraments:

"The Episcopal Church has endorsed a letter to members of the United States Senate endorsing taxpayer funding of abortions.

"On Dec 4, the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice released a letter endorsed by the Episcopal Church, Catholics for Choice and other liberal religious groups expressing their opposition to an amendment to the health care reform bill before Congress that would remove abortion funding from the proposed legislation.

“We believe that it is our social and moral obligation to ensure access to high quality comprehensive health care services at every stage in an individual’s life,” the RCRC letter said, noting that “affordable and accessible care for all” was “necessary for the well-being of all people in our nation.”

"Abortion was an essential element of this health care, the letter said. The RCRC claimed the “House-passed version of health reform includes language that imposes significant new restrictions on access to abortion services. This provision would result in women losing health coverage they currently have, an unfortunate contradiction to the basic guiding principle of health care reform.”

"Providing abortion coverage in the bill was “a moral imperative” and the “selective withdrawal of critical health coverage from women is both a violation of this imperative and a betrayal of the public good.”"

I was not an Episcopalian when TEO officially affiliated with this vile group but I was when TEO adopted its current stance on baby-killing(essentially “We wish you wouldn’t but we won’t condemn you if you do”) so I’ve really got no right to lecture anybody about remaining connected to a “church” like TEO.

But you have to wonder about Anglican groups who are so anxious for “official” Canterbury recognition that they would be willing to overlook that they would still remain connected to a “church” as morally bankrupt as the Episcopal Organization. TEO is a reason to abandon Canterbury, not cling to it as if it still mattered.

And yeah, ACNA and GAFCON, I’m looking at you.