The New York Times report on the Ft. Worth schism. Judy Mayo is a fixture at General Convention. We're going to miss her.Judy Mayo, director of children’s education at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Fort Worth, spoke in favor of the break, saying she was deeply troubled by an “anything goes” philosophy in which some Episcopal churches perform same-sex unions.
“If something is morally wrong in Texas, my friends, it is wrong in Montana or California or Connecticut or Kentucky,” Ms. Mayo said. “It’s either right or wrong according to God’s word.”
She added: “The train of the Episcopal Church and the apostolic faith are simply on a collision course now. It is time to make a clear and clean break.”
At least five of the Fort Worth diocese’s 55 parishes are expected to remain aligned with the Episcopal Church as they fight to override the separation.
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The Fort Worth diocese, formed in 1982 as a spinoff of the Dallas diocese, is one of three that refuse to ordain women as priests, a practice the national church voted to accept in 1976.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/16/us/16episcopal.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=episcopal&st=nyt&oref=slogin
The Washington Post take is here -
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/11/15/AR2008111501239.html
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