{"id":6031,"date":"2004-06-03T14:54:12","date_gmt":"2004-06-03T21:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2004\/06\/03\/but-wait-theres-a-sequel.html"},"modified":"2009-08-05T23:38:33","modified_gmt":"2009-08-06T05:38:33","slug":"but_wait_theres-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2004\/06\/03\/but_wait_theres-2.html","title":{"rendered":"But wait! There’s a sequel!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evidently not satisfied with Bishop O’Neill’s letter of reprimand (a\/k\/a “Godly Admonition”) to Bonnie, or interested in giving the bishop time to complete his policy review on such matters, the conservative clergy in Colorado are making threatening rumbles<\/a>. demanding harsher action.<\/p>\n

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Conservative Episcopalians will ask Bishop Rob O’Neill to impose harsher sanctions against the Rev. Bonnie Spencer, an assistant pastor who participated in a same-sex ritual at Good Shepherd Church in Centennial.<\/p>\n

In a letter sent to O’Neill last weekend, a conservative leader criticized the bishop’s handling of the matter, which was to impose a “godly admonition,” the lightest rebuke possible. In his decision, issued last week, O’Neill also authorized Spencer to take a six-week leave of absence.<\/p>\n

The Rev. Don Armstrong, of Colorado Springs, warned in a letter to O’Neill that conservatives plan to demand that he consider defrocking Spencer and firing the church’s interim rector who approved the ritual.
\n“What Bonnie did . . . is clearly a same-sex blessing, and that must be stopped,” Armstrong said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Now, given that the actual letter from Rev. Armstrong isn’t available, and given the through-a-word-processor-darkly nature of how previous letters from folks in this case have been somewhat mangled by the Rocky<\/i>, I hate to draw too many conclusions here.<\/p>\n

Still, it seems to me extraordinary that there be a demand to have Bonnie “defrocked” in this matter. And Rev. Armstrong would know as well as anyone else that our interim rector is actually hired by the parish, not the bishop; while I’m sure the bishop could, should he choose to do so, exert pressure on our parish to let Rev. Need go, I don’t believe he can actually “fire” her on our behalf.<\/p>\n

I’m also not sure how this balances with Armstrong’s previous statement<\/a>, in the Denver Post, apparently approving of the bishop’s actions (which had been communcated at that time): “”I think what he’s done is struck the right chord for the moment.”<\/p>\n

I’ll wait until the apparently-leaked (if not CCed) letter to the bishop makes it online to make any further comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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