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TEC Presiding Bishop calls Bishop Lawrence a “tyrant” and his diocese”vigilante”

Saturday, January 26, 2013 20:11
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CHARLESTON, SC: TEC Presiding Bishop calls Bishop Lawrence a “tyrant” and his diocese “vigilante”
She decried the dictates of petty deciders or wolves who masquerade as sheep

By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
January 26, 2013

“The local tyrant is not the judge,” said Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori about Bishop Mark Lawrence, in a sermon to members of the newly formed Episcopal Church in South Carolina. She was referencing Bishop Lawrence calling the Diocese of South Carolina a “sovereign diocese”.

Speaking to an overflow audience at Grace Church, Charleston, that included nine bishops, priests from 30 entities including 19 parishes, 9 worshipping communities (all formerly of The Diocese of South Carolina), the Presiding Bishop blasted Lawrence's fundamentalism in an oblique reference to pansexuality saying, “We cannot remain faithful and refuse to wrestle with change.” < ![CDATA[

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