An in depth piece from Colorado Springs-
For the Rev. Don Armstrong, life appears to have rolled along smoothly these past five months.
The rector at St. George's Anglican Church in northwest Colorado Springs has exuded total self-confidence, giving every outward impression that he has weathered the judicial storm over how he handled parish finances during his 20-year reign at Grace and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church.
The 61-year-old is as comfortable as ever in pushing his conservative theology from the pulpit, as in his most recent sermon three Sundays ago when Armstrong chastised the daughters of George W. Bush and John McCain for "speaking out in favor of same-sex marriage," adding, "how quickly we should see it as human-centered thinking, not God's teaching."
Though his tone has grown more strident as the years have progressed, parishioners say, this self-assuredness is vintage Armstrong.
While continuing as rector at St. George's, Armstrong has downplayed any negative ramifications from his plea agreement last September, when he gave a no-contest plea to a felony theft charge and what's known as an Alford plea to a misdemeanor allegation. (An Alford plea is similar to no-contest, wherein you don't admit guilt but acknowledge the case against you.) That was the end result of a 20-count indictment from 2009, which focused on $291,000 in allegedly mishandled Grace Church funds that mostly paid college expenses for Armstrong's children over a seven-year period.
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