The criminal investigation side of the whole Don Armstrong mess in Colorado Springs has moved to the next stage. His supporters pooh-poohed as nasssssty liberal church politics the Episcopal Diocese finding him guilty (in an ecclesiastical court) of fraud and financial malfeasance. This was after a long diocesan investigation, but Armstrong’s supporters applauded his fleeing the Episcopal Church before he could be booted out, dragging much of his parish with him (and, until this past Easter, the parish property, too).
After a two-year investigation by the Colorado Springs Police, a Grand Jury has indicted Armstrong on twenty counts of felony theft.
I’m charitable enough to both consider him innocent until proven guilty, and to not take untoward pleasure in his misfortune (or on the general scandal of it all) … but I’ll confess that I’m pleased to see some egg on the faces of all of those people who were sooooooo sure that the duration of the investigation proved that the Episcopal Diocese of Colorado was full of vindictive, evil, non-Biblical, nasssssty sorts who were out to smear Armstrong’s name.
More as I read about it.
(via Ginny)