Bad company doth corrupt good morals
by David Virtue, VOL:
In the break-up of The Episcopal Church and the birth of the ACNA, much was talked and argued over about doctrinal changes and bad morals.
Faithful Episcopalians could not stomach the moral behavior of Bishop Gene Robinson and 100,000 orthodox Episcopalians walked away from many of their priests and properties. It is all outlined in a new book co-authored by myself and Brad Hutt, The Great Episcopal Church Robbery: 6,400 Congregation Properties Heisted by Radical Clergy. It does not make for pleasant reading.
But what of those who believed they must remain – evangelical and Anglo Catholic bishops and priests who, for a variety of reasons including pensions and power, wished to remain in the church? Perhaps they hoped to protect their dwindling flocks and thought they could influence the broader Episcopal Church for the gospel. Well, how did that work?
Not well. In fact, it proved to be disastrous. Over time, some rolled over because of the power of needing to belong. Some were persuaded that they could or should stay out of some conciliar consideration. Others felt the need to have a seat at the table as the ‘loyal opposition’ like the Communion Partner bishops. But what has become of them, pray tell. The truth is nothing. A CP position paper is written and promptly filed in TECs archives, and the steam roller of “inclusion and diversity” rolls on.
They sit in the seat of scoffers who reject Biblical sexual ethics that expressly forbid homosexuality. They stand alongside of bishops who no longer delight in the law of the Lord, preferring their own understandings. They temporize over issues as abortion rights and LGBTQ inclusivity.
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