"What a Fine Kettle O' Fish" Fred and MANY other Episcopalians find ourselves in...

"For example, in Captain Francis Grose’s Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue of 1811, it’s explained like this: 'When a person has perplexed his affairs in general, or any particular business, he is said to have made a FINE KETTLE OF FISH of it'."

"Perplexed" because you're finding yourself in a "fine kettle of fish" at The Episcopal Church?

This afternoon, while making my rounds of the blogs that I'm especially interested in reading, I came upon the thoughts of dear friends at Off Topic Allowed...

READ ON:

"These seemingly related only in concept "takeovers" are in fact a larger and more direct attack on the Episcopal Church." Fred Schwartz/San Joaquin

THE DIFFERENCES BETWEEN SAN JOAQUIN AND PITTSBURGH

Fred Schwartz has this, and more, to say:

"My first suggestion, after much thought, is that the primate involved, in this instance, Greg Venables, the Province and every bishop in that province be named personally and individually liable for these incursions.

+Greg Venables/Argentina

Certainly they are the direct as well as indrect beneficiaries of the "realignment". They benefit immediately with the illegal transfer of property and cash to the various entities within the new province. In addition, we test out some new legislation that perhaps attacks these individuals, perhaps under the Alien and Sedition Acts or perhaps under some IRS or INS code that gives these Primates the opportunity to expend their resources and their time and their attorneys in court. Perhaps were Mr. Venables named in suits in Fort Worth and San Joaquin and Pittsburgh and forced to appear any number of times – or better yet, when here arrested as a flight risk and held here until these suits were over the other Primates may begin to think twice about these stupid, mean-spirited and ugly forays into the Episcopal Church.
Now, we will hear one more time about how awful we are that we are "suing" and we my stand to lose more laity but hey, in about 5 years we are all going to be "Southern Conaliones" otherwise so what's to lose?

If we want to avoid the inevitable then we will need to create a much broader strategy that includes some form of offense. A defensive strategy will only postpone the inevitable."

Fred Schwartz/The Episcopal Church Diocese of San Joaquin

Leonardo Ricardo has this to say:

For many years I have believed (since the exposed Chapman Memo and after the "excluders/destructionists" organized their very own, private, purified/extra-Holy "Place to Stand" ALONE and CLOSED and restricted/policied to admit only "the pure" at Dallas). The Episcopal Church has been far too passive when being infiltrated by grandstanding religious bigots who wear the NEW WHITE HOODED SHEETS (with apparently no eyeholes)which are the costume/custom of the self-imagined and arrogant orthodox "correct." The Episcopal Church has been FAR too passive/polite and inactive/cowardly when dealing with dangerous, trespassing, Dominionist extremists and thieves who deceive fellow Christians with their SECRET intentions of harming/excluding others at ALL levels of Churchlife. I believe the right wing political religiosity of fear/hate has been introduced, generated and has infected fellow Christians in such a large degree that UGLY LOATHING OF OTHERS (or worse in Nigeria/Kenya/Uganda) is considered a holy activity of Anglicanism...perhaps a new Holy Sacrament, like Drexel Gomez's Covenant, to discriminate against other Christians? The ongoing preaching of such excluding ignorance by selective Scriptural preachers/poachers, pontificators is similar to acts of rabid superstiousness and witch craft...crimes of PURITANLIKE HATE are promoted at The Anglican Communion/beyond as Canterbury silently burns to the ground.

It's WAY PAST time to take aggressive legal action against criminals (of all varieties) who are attempting to takeover OUR Church...it's way past time to stop with the codependent "pretending" and "suffering" and "fasting" as TEC facilitates degradation aimed at fellow Episcopalians/others.

It's time for the The Presiding Bishop and her advisors, The Executive Committee, The House of Deputies, The House of Bishops to take strong aggressive action(s) BEFORE more of the destructionist CRUSADE of CHAOS is allowed to set/move-in and around at Church and steal our honorability, courage, LOVE for oneanother/fellowship, our heritage and patrimony at The Body of Christ.

NOW!


Help Is On The way/Summer 2009/The Episcopal Church General Convention/Anaheim, California