The Bullet Train to Hell

Last Thursday the 18th, the Episcopal Church ejected Robert Duncan, Bishop of Pittsburgh, from its ordained ministry. The House of Bishops voted 88-35 for Mr. Duncan's removal, which is a pretty clear majority, and this body has full authority to take such action, but what is remarkable about this situation is that Bishop Duncan was removed not for disobeying Scripture or some personal misdeeds but for his obedience to Scripture. Bishop Duncan has been a leading conservative dissident within the Episcopal Church over the past five years, a vocal and active opponent of its lurch to the Left and was advocating the alliance of the Diocese of Pittsburgh with a larger conservative movement with that denomination. Thursday's action, timed as it was before the Diocese's vote to split from the official Church, is viewed as a preemptive strike by the Episcopals' liberal leadership to prevent such a split.

Just as liberals have spent the past forty years trying to reinterpret the U.S. Constitution to find rights that don't exist (abortion) and to bury rights specifically and explicitly included (the right of individual citizens to own and carry firearms), liberals have spent the past 1900 years trying to reinterpret Scripture to justify conduct otherwise strictly prohibited. The Episcopal Church wants to recognize and perform gay marriages and to ordain gays into their active ministry, actions that clearly contravene the Bible, so rather than address the behavior itself, the Church "reinterprets" Holy Scripture to their advantage and suppresses dissent thereto. (Isn't it odd how Inquisition-like the liberals behave - the same liberals who find the Inquisition everywhere within conservative organizations - when people disagree with them?) Bishop Duncan is being punished for adhering to the Bible, not for departing from it; for preaching the Word, not liberal dogma; for obeying Christ, not his temporal superiors; and for worshipping the great and glorious King of Creation, not the false and corrupt god of "tolerance." Thus I applaud and salute Robert Duncan, formerly Bishop of Pittsburgh, and wish him well...he will fare much better and be rewarded more handsomely than those who rejected him.