Oh where to start?
There is plenty with which to find fault in what Presiding Bishop Katherine Jefferts-Schori had to say to the National Press Club on December 16. Baby Blue characterizes it as:
… an amazingly sophomoric speech (which she lectures the press to be nicer and stop writing about schism and sex).
But what deserves particular emphasis amidst the usual drivel is a good old fashioned outright lie.
Concerning the Episcopal Church’s various lawsuits against dioceses, parishes, and even individual parishioners the Presiding Bishop asks us to believe:
We tried for a very long time to negotiate and came to a place where there was no willingness to negotiate so at that point you ask the courts to enforce the laws of the land.
If you ever are tempted to wonder if these are basically good honest people who are sincere in their “error” do keep such statements like this in mind. The Presiding Bishop is lying.
The Diocese of Virginia was all set to work out a settlement with parishes leaving the Episcopal Church – and then 815 (which is shorthand for the leadership of the national church including especially the Presiding Bishop and her chancellor David Booth-Beers) stepped in and told Bishop Lee to change course and sue the dickens out of these people.
