Let's Get One Thing Straight

Out of the convention comes more rhetoric by his Eminence Mark Lawrence, "high who ha" of the diocese of South Carolina.  Can we get at least one thing straight:  Mark Lawrence and Daniel Martins were tutored by John David Schofield.  They are following JDS' plot/plan. When JDS was approved by the House of Bishops he assured everyone that certain sensitive issues (such as female ordination) would not separate him from his beloved Episcopal Church.  Then for nearly 40 years he tried every trick in the book to reverse his "statements" finally just doing what he had intended to do all along, form his own version of Anglicanism.  Mark Lawrence comes along and during the ratification process promises to never leave the Episcopal Church.  Well, it appears, and right on cue, that while he and his diocese are not leaving the Episcopal Church the Episcopal Church is leaving him.  What a tired and worn out argument but true to his mentor's form (and the Chapman Memo) he is on his way out.  The House of Bishops ratifies Daniel Martins as grand poo bah of Indiana as Mr. martins promises to never leave the Episcopal Church.  His rhetoric is about 18 months behind Mark Lawrence but it is growing in it's adversarial nature.Just how long is it going to go on?  Hey, let's ratify all the "good Anglicans" to be bishops and allow the Episcopal Church to fall apart one diocese at a time?  What a great strategy!  We already have had it proven that the leadership of the Episcopal Church is dealing with the Gordian knot by trying to untie it -- rather than pulling the sword out of the scabbard and cutting the knot.

Death, slow or fast, an inch at a time or all at once is still death.  As I have said before, when good guys and bad guys fight, good guys usually lose.  Why? Because the good guys play by the rules and the bad guys have no rules.  It certainly will not be pretty and it obviously will not be easy but "fighting" for even a principle, is worth it, win or lose, it is worth it.  The ACNA believes and relies on the Episcopal Church as the compromise, let's take it slow and easy, lets keep as many folks in as we can, let's out last the "bad guys".  The "bad guys" are following the scorched earth policy.

Let us allow the Who to finish this post. 

Wont Get Fooled Again

by the Who

We'll be fighting in the streets
With our children at our feet
And the morals that they worship will be gone
And the men who spurred us on
Sit in judgment of all wrong
They decide and the shotgun sings the song

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again

The change, it had to come
We knew it all along
We were liberated from the fold, that's all
And the world looks just the same
And history ain't changed
Cause the banners, they are flown in the next war

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
No, no!

I'll move myself and my family aside
If we happen to be left half alive
I'll get all my papers and smile at the sky
Though I know that the hypnotized never lie
Do ya?

There's nothing in the streets
Looks any different to me
And the slogans are replaced, by-the-bye
And the parting on the left
Are now parting on the right
And the beards have all grown longer overnight

I'll tip my hat to the new constitution
Take a bow for the new revolution
Smile and grin at the change all around
Pick up my guitar and play
Just like yesterday
Then I'll get on my knees and pray
We don't get fooled again
Don't get fooled again