{"id":243,"date":"2003-11-05T03:26:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-05T03:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eclecticamateur.wordpress.com\/2003\/11\/05\/the-floggings-will-continue-until-celebration-of-diversity-is-achieved"},"modified":"2003-11-05T03:26:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-05T03:26:00","slug":"the-floggings-will-continue-until-celebration-of-diversity-is-achieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/2003\/11\/the-floggings-will-continue-until-celebration-of-diversity-is-achieved.html\/","title":{"rendered":"The Floggings Will Continue Until Celebration of Diversity Is Achieved"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chris Johnson<\/a> points out that the Rev. Harry Cook is not amused<\/a> that Some Counter-Revolutionary Agents\u2122 are failing to properly celebrate the elevation of Vicki Gene Robinson as Bishop. But in the middle of an otherwise unremarkable Spongian screed (“613 so-called commandments”<\/i> [Leviticus] … “homophobic”<\/i> [Paul] … “Jesus’ silence”<\/i> [guess Matthew 19:4<\/a> is one of those “discarded concepts”<\/i>] … yadda yadda yawn), Rev. Harry lets on more than he perhaps meant to:<\/p>\n

…my private anger at Episcopalian fundamentalists…<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Somebody should clue in Rev. Harry that he’s departing from the script.<\/p>\n

It’s the “fundamentalists” who are supposed to be angry. The revisionists — sorry, those who are “learning to live the mystery of communion at a deeper level”<\/a> — are supposed to be merely saddened and mystified at such irrational displays.<\/p>\n

He also let slip the following —<\/p>\n

… the church decided to stop discussing, take a stand and make a statement.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

No more dialogue for you Neanderthal fundamentalists! We’ve been patient with you, and you didn’t even have the decency to shut up. “Now I shall have to be vewy angwy.”<\/p>\n

Shouldn’t the presiding bishop remind Rev. Cook about all his statements that GC2003 didn’t end the discussion about human sexuality in the ECUSA? Who to believe, who to believe? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Johnson points out that the Rev. Harry Cook is not amused that Some Counter-Revolutionary Agents\u2122 are failing to properly celebrate the elevation of Vicki Gene Robinson as Bishop. But in the middle of an otherwise unremarkable Spongian screed (“613 so-called commandments” [Leviticus] … “homophobic” [Paul] … “Jesus’ silence” [guess Matthew 19:4 is one of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-episcopal-church"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2sZgq-3V","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.znfrey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}