Happy Birthday, Kurt. Have a Newport on me!

Scott: Griswold is an idiot, clearly, but I’m trying to reason through his points on his own terms. Answering a fool according to his folly, I know. I’m foolish.

Anyway, when the people of Sodom had over time turned en masse to perversion, wouldn’t that be something like an orientation? Also, I don’t recall anything in the NT injunctions at least that point one way or the other. That is, the acts are condemned without any reference to the mindset of the person committing the acts. In fact, when one considers the labeling of the sinner instead of a reference to the sin, I suppose one could make a case that one is clearly singling out the repeat offender, not an isolated “one time at band camp” incident.

Anyway, his idiocy aside, he is right in that as I understand it, Episcopal dioceses are entirely autonomous. That is how the Dallas diocese is headed by a very conservative Bishop, and Griswold can do nothing about it.

Next week, please pray for the gathering of conservative Episcopal leaders here in Dallas. They need wisdom. Lots of it.