LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homosexual and Lesbian Rectors
By David W. Virtue
www.virtueonline.org
August 2, 2009
The Rev. Canon Mary Douglas Glasspool, canon to the bishops in the Baltimore-based Diocese of Maryland and a lesbian, is one of six candidates seeking nomination as the next Bishop Suffragan for the Diocese of Los Angeles.
In her resume to the diocese, she says that she met her "life partner" Becki Sander in Boston when she was studying for a dual degree in theology and social work. They have been together since 1988. 
A second candidate, The Rev. John L. Kirkley, rector of St. John the Evangelist Church in San Francisco in the Diocese of California, states he has been "married" to his "husband" Andrew Aldrich for 15 years. They are parents of an eleven year-old son, Nehemiah.
The other candidates are: The Rev. Canon Diane M. Jardine Bruce, rector, St. Clement's by-the-Sea Church in San Clemente, California is married (to a man); The Rev. Zelda M. Kennedy, senior associate for pastoral care and spiritual growth, All Saints Church in Pasadena, California, was born in 1947 and is a widow with one daughter. The Rev. Silvestre E. Romero, rector, St Philip's Church in San Jose, California (Diocese of El Camino Real); is married to Thelma; and The Rev. Irineo Martir Vasquez, vicar, St. George's Church is married to Elena.
According to a press release from the Diocese of Los Angeles, fifty-one priests were nominated during the six-week nomination period ending on May 15. Twenty submitted applications consisting of answers to written questions and sample sermons.
The Rt. Rev. J. Jon Bruno, Bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles, held one-on-one meetings with the nominees whom the committee selected and then notified the committee that he would consider it a blessing to work with any of the six.
"I affirm each and every one of these candidates, and I am pleased with the wide diversity they offer this Diocese," Bishop Bruno said in a statement.
At the Diocesan Convention in Riverside on December 4-5, two bishops suffragan will be elected from among the six nominees.
The newly elected bishops will succeed Bishop Suffragan Chester L. Talton and Bishop Assistant Sergio Carranza, who will retire in 2010 after 19 and seven years, respectively, of service to the Diocese.
Bishop Talton was elected bishop suffragan by the Diocese in 1990 and began ministry in 1991. Bishop Carranza, the retired Bishop of the Diocese of Mexico, was appointed bishop assistant by Bishop Bruno and began ministry in Los Angeles in 2003.
A resolution, D025, was recently passed at the church's 76th triennial General Convention which affirmed that God has called gays and lesbians to "any ordained ministry in the Episcopal Church."
In a letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori called the ordination resolution "more descriptive than prescriptive," and said it didn't repudiate a 2006 call by the U.S. church for bishops to "exercise restraint by not consenting to the consecration of any candidate to the episcopate whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead to wider strains on communion."
She made similar assurances about the resolution on same-sex blessings.
But a recent announcement that The Rev. Bonnie Perry, a lesbian in a 'partnered' relationship, is one of three nominees to be the next Bishop of Minnesota replacing the retiring Bishop James Jelinek, throws a monkey wrench into Dr. Williams calls for restraint by TEC.
The latest pronouncements from the Diocese of Los Angeles that two candidates for Bishop Suffragan - a homosexual and a lesbian - will further inflame the Anglican Communion's orthodox believers. It confirms in their minds that The Episcopal Church intends to show no restraint whatever, raising the middle finger to the communion's titular head indicating that it has no intention of being obedient to the demands of the Windsor Report or to any proposed Covenant.
Fissures in the Anglican Communion will only deepen further if either diocese elects a non-celibate gay or lesbian to the episcopacy.
In a meditation titled "A Biblical Love Triangle" Kirkley tries to make the case that David and Jonathan had a homoerotic relationship.
http://revkirkley.blogspot.com/
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| daveball | Posted: 2009/8/2 22:50 Updated: 2009/8/2 22:50 |
Home away from home   Joined: 2004/12/18 From: Pittsburgh, PA Posts: 2377 |
 Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose...Wow. TEc is imploding faster that even I imagined. The list of candidates in Lost Angeles is mostly females, lesbians and queers. Maybe Vicky Gene was right about TEc becoming "The Gay Church".
Any holdouts still have doubts? Only those who still harbor the "It doesn't affect this parish" mentality. Absolutely absurd and disgusting. Theme music appears in background with "Bring in the Clowns". |
| RevDarrenS | Posted: 2009/8/2 23:30 Updated: 2009/8/2 23:30 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2007/9/24 From: Georgia, USA Posts: 213 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... If you are still in TEC and you are a Bible-believing, orthodox-minded Christian... Please, God's sake and the sake of your own immortal soul... Don't walk...RUN as fast as you can!!! The ship is sinking fast!!! There are Anglican churches that DO uphold the Gospel. What TEC is doing is storing up wrath for themselves. Their actions at General Convention have proven once and for all that they have abandoned the Christian faith and that they (the leadership) are disingenuous in what they say and what they do.
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| CityTroope | Posted: 2009/8/2 23:41 Updated: 2009/8/2 23:41 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2004/12/2 From: Rosemont, PA Posts: 159 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Bishop Bruno announced today; "At our new 10AM service we will be celebrating the sacrament of sodomy. Anyone can come to the alter rail for a quick poke."
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| Causidicus | Posted: 2009/8/3 0:39 Updated: 2009/8/3 0:39 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/7/3 From: Posts: 1095 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... The dam has burst. Now comes the deluge.
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| 1KG1138 | Posted: 2009/8/3 1:01 Updated: 2009/8/3 1:01 |
Just popping in  Joined: 2008/1/10 From: OH Posts: 8 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Well, well, well... I'm not surprised that this happened, only at the swiftness of it. My only thought is that we no longer need to implore the faithful to leave TEC; the TEC leadership is now doing that all by themselves.
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| hellcat | Posted: 2009/8/3 3:00 Updated: 2009/8/3 3:00 |
Just can't stay away  Joined: 2006/2/7 From: Fort Worth Posts: 147 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Of course the Diocese of LA has a homosexual and lesbian nominee for bishop. The only surprise is that Elizabeth Kaeton and Federico Sierra aren't among the nominees.
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2009/8/3 3:32 Updated: 2009/8/3 3:32 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6863 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Well, it finally happened! The Episcopal ship finally went too far in the minefield and had her bottom blown out! Will she sink on an even keel? No! This ship is broken in half, and the wreck is sinking fast.
Just wait and see what happens when her boilers explode! It won't be a pretty sight, and there'll be few survivors. Nothing can save TEC now, and the rest of the Communion is going to see this as open defiance. Cennydd |
| jangler | Posted: 2009/8/3 3:49 Updated: 2009/8/3 3:49 |
Just popping in Joined: 2006/7/31 From: Houston Posts: 10 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Make no mistake--what TEC is doing causes me to despair and to thank God for ACNA, for the Global South, and for my Diocese of Texas and its bishop.
But I despair as well to hear so many, with whom I agree 100% in the theology and hermeneutics of all of this, speaking SO uncharitably. Surely Screwtape wants to win a victory amongst us, and surely this hard-heartedness is a sign that he's winning? Stand firm in faith. I will too. But even as we do, shall we not pray for our enemies? Bless those who curse us? Let's pray, with true caritas, agape, the true love our Lord calls us to, PRAY for Gene, for Katharine, for Jon and Susan. Hate was is evil, absolutely. Hold fast to what is true, all the more. But for GOD's sake let's do it like Christians! And what would happen in the Kingdom if revival broke out at Integrity, or 815, or wherever? What if God changed their minds and hearts? Their stories are not over yet, and they may change. It may seem like a lost cause. But isn't that where God does His best work? Where there is life, there is hope. Jesus told us to live that way. Paul told us to love, to bear, to believe, to hope, and to endure. Let's don't budge an INCH from what we know to be true. But let's apply the WHOLE truth, and outdo even them in love. And give the devil NO opportunity. If we believe, we must follow our Lord by forgiving them, praying for them, loving them even as they spit at us. They truly know not what they do. Where has our love gone?? |
| spike | Posted: 2009/8/3 5:21 Updated: 2009/8/3 6:04 |
Just popping in Joined: 2009/5/29 From: Richmond, VA Posts: 8 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... A few months ago, I was in my rector's office and he told me he suspected that I was "soft on women's ordination." I assured him that I'm not, it's just that I don't throw anathemas around like they were going out of style. TEC is free to do anything they want -- I just don't have to be a part of it. I left in April and haven't looked back -- except to watch the train wreck. Well, GENCON 09 has finally convinced me to end that personal moratorium.
Now that GENCON has given its official okey dokey to "full inclusion of LGBT persons" in every nook and cranny of the church, it should be equally as official that they are (a) no longer part of the Anglican Communion (does anybody want to bet that ++Williams will actually do that? If so, I have some swamp land in Florida I'd like to sell you.), (b) seriously in danger of not being a Christian body any more, and (c) actually dangerous to the well being of their remaining members. There are also a couple questions remaining to be answered. First is the question of how many other dioceses will now proceed to nominate "LGBT" candidates for bishop. My money says that there will be at least three others before year's end. The urge to be trendy is just too difficult to resist in TEC. The next question is which other grievance group will be next to advance its agenda in TEC. A few months ago, someone was suggesting that it's polyamory. It's not as absurd as it might have seemed even a year ago when we look at the increasingly rapid descent into apostasy and irrelevancy TEC is now engaged in. I'm trying hard to think of another equally absurd agenda item for TEC to take up beyond polyamory (coming soon to a diocese near you), but I can't come up with anything, but that too is okay because I have full confidence that they will supply an answer for me shortly. That's the advantage of low expectations -- you're so seldom disappointed. Quick quiz. Looking back in the OT, what was it that consistently got the people of Israel into trouble with Yahweh? Answer: adapting themselves to the cultures they found themselves in. It is only the sin of pride that would lead someone to believe that they can do the same and get away with it. God doesn't change. It is the curse of human existence that we don't learn. |
| boyscout | Posted: 2009/8/3 16:16 Updated: 2009/8/3 16:16 |
Just popping in Joined: 2007/12/11 From: Posts: 4 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... POLYAMORY |ˌpälēˈamərē| noun
the philosophy or state of being in love or romantically involved with more than one person at the same time. Or as I described it to a TEC pewsitter awhile back, the blessing of the union between two lesbians, one transgendered girly man, a billy goat and a toaster oven. |
| borgy | Posted: 2009/8/3 17:06 Updated: 2009/8/3 17:06 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2005/12/21 From: Posts: 115 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Wow! A deluge of homosexual bishops in TEC might not take long after all.
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| fatherD | Posted: 2009/8/3 18:30 Updated: 2009/8/3 18:30 |
Just popping in Joined: 2009/7/24 From: California Posts: 7 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Is The Diocese LA now “the diocese of lysergic acid”?!
OMG, it’s happening all over again. Are we all addicted to this sour taste of Sin? An embarrassment to everyone, we now have been, In the Anglican Communion, we are no longer akin. The LA Diocese has gone fully berserk, They really are and have been an extreme “piece of work;” Johnny Bruno, what in world has happened to you? Why did not you go off in a pro football zoo? You never played for Denver, or the “pros,” as I did, Your “pro”gressive agenda just would not be hid; It’s amazing to me that you’ve fallen so far, On LBGT’s “walk of fame,” you will have a star! Your foundation is built on ever-shifting sands, In the “shallows,” you’ve departed from Scriptural hands; You have sunk in your desert, so parched and dry, You jumped “into bed” with an “apostacyatical” high! You stand on your throne—proudly Bishop of LA, But you’ve left your foundation—the Truth, Life, and WAY! No matter. You’re “with it.” Those others? Too bad. They’ll “catch up” or leave. We’ll get on with this fad. You’re lost in “neverland,” as you trip out on “sexology,” To the larger faith community, you’re small piece of “vexology;” You’re “very far out there,” leading to your demise, You just don’t want to see this “Satan” veiled in disguise. You’ll be in our prayers as you drift off with life’s whims, Budgetary collapse? Imminent; As your membership slims; There are many, way down there, who God’s reaching to save, Bishops Bloy, Rusack, Stevens, are rolling over in their grave! |
| fatherD | Posted: 2009/8/3 18:45 Updated: 2009/8/3 18:45 |
Just popping in Joined: 2009/7/24 From: California Posts: 7 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... How come all the attention is on the 2 homosexual candidates? Shouldn't the "other 4" demand equal time/press coverage?
Would John Kirkley please read the story of David/Saul/Jonathan/et al, in Hebrew? Maybe Donn Morgan or some other professor across the bay @ CDSP could help him. It's very strange how he can twist/spin the story to meet his own "justifying his own behavior" purposes. I've previously served @ St. John's-SF, and it's surely fallen a long way from its former glory! |
| Newshound | Posted: 2009/8/3 20:26 Updated: 2009/8/3 20:27 |
Home away from home Joined: 2007/5/5 From: Posts: 238 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... FYI, David Virtue has done an excellent job of posting stories such as this. Todays secular news, which includes the major wire services and networks are carrying this story as well. The news media, radio, tv, networks etc, are going to really be wondering how the Episcopal denomination can speak out about morality, when deep down inside, all of us, Christian and otherwise, know that the homosexual lifestyle is wrong; dead wrong.
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| ACLins | Posted: 2009/8/3 23:12 Updated: 2009/8/3 23:12 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/3/31 From: Kentucky Posts: 242 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Mary Glasspool... I remember her when she was in the Diocese of PA. That place spawned a strange set of women clergy - Barbara Harris, Geralyn Wolf, Mary Glasspool and me.
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| injil | Posted: 2009/8/4 3:50 Updated: 2009/8/4 3:50 |
Quite a regular   Joined: 2006/7/15 From: The Rusted Buckle Posts: 44 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Compare the faiths of those Pakistani Christians and these perverts and sodomites parading around in religious garb. The visible church is dead-defunct-moribund.
The Episcopal Church, I become nauseated just seeing the words typed, is a rotting dung heap, chaff waiting to be burned in the judgement. Schori, the wench of Babylon, rides that old moldering beast to its doom and destruction. Williams will burn with Schori, Spong, the Glasspools, the Kirkleys of this world. Their fates are sealed in the blood of those saints who have perished for a faith these anti-Christs have despised. The flames of Gehenna, which birthed this rampant evil, will with great relish welcome home the offspring, spawned in its stinking depths. |
| CityTroope | Posted: 2009/8/4 6:28 Updated: 2009/8/4 6:28 |
Home away from home Joined: 2004/12/2 From: Rosemont, PA Posts: 159 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... I think we might be missing the point. The headline should read..."Surprise! TEc Nominees Include Heterosexual Priest!"
There are definitely two aspects of being a Virtue reader. The first is like watching a toilet flush. All the bile and refuse disappearing with increasing speed down the drain. It should not be interesting, it is tragic, but it has a morbid appeal. The second is like watching a baby being born. It is noisy, messy, wonderful, full of life, hope and potential to grow. TEc is really only relevant now in their attempts to hold back the growth of Christianity. However that has never lasted. Over the next few years, the self destructive sodomites of TEc will become increasingly irrelevant. The day will come when TEc is nothing but a footnote in ecclesiastic history. |
| hellcat | Posted: 2009/8/4 15:12 Updated: 2009/8/4 15:12 |
Just can't stay away Joined: 2006/2/7 From: Fort Worth Posts: 147 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Another surprise is that Susan Russell was overlooked. She has worked tirelessly for the GLBT cause. What happened?
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| Bethany | Posted: 2009/8/4 17:48 Updated: 2009/8/4 17:48 |
Just popping in Joined: 2009/7/26 From: Posts: 11 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Does TEC now stand for The Evil Cult?
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| PilgrimRob | Posted: 2009/8/5 4:43 Updated: 2009/8/5 4:43 |
Just popping in  Joined: 2009/7/10 From: California Posts: 6 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Bethany,
Apparently it does. It certainly doesn't stand for anything Christian. |
| anglohigh | Posted: 2009/8/5 23:48 Updated: 2009/8/5 23:48 |
Just popping in Joined: 2007/2/6 From: Posts: 5 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... You're so right! TEC is really a Congregational Church. I know a priest, in LA, two months in rehab, for major drug problems. Yet the parish kept him on. Christian, maybe. But TEC I was raised in would have sent him out of town. The current crop of bishops, straight, gay or whatever, are mostly converts, with a strong political agenda, know little about Anglicanism, entered TEC as a 5th career, after failing in everything else they did. The caliber in TEC of bishops is so low, academic dregs - I'm talking liberal and conservatives. The Bishop of San Joaquin was a rarity left in TEC (the one who left) - he was a grad of Dartmouth, bright, etc. The current bishop of Los Angeles - is a former cop, with a two-bit education. Nice man, but intellectually a jerk. That's why the Episcopal Church is on the road to ruin. Its run by dunces.
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| myrnajo | Posted: 2009/8/14 12:22 Updated: 2009/8/14 12:22 |
Quite a regular Joined: 2009/4/28 From: Posts: 46 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... Well, I guess that proves Gene Robinson was right. TEC really is the "Church of the Gays ". So folks, if you are not so inclined, it is best you leave as fast as you can.
I think their destruction is fast approaching ! |
| stormrider | Posted: 2009/8/28 19:31 Updated: 2009/8/28 19:32 |
Just popping in Joined: 2008/3/13 From: Posts: 12 |
Re: LOS ANGELES: Episcopal Bishop Nominees Include Homose... "Can't they understand homosexuality abomination to God?"
It's sad that there are all these "allegedly" educated people in the TEC who claim to believe in God, but it never dawns on them that God destroyed, not one, but two entire cities behind this sickness! now, because the Episcopal church oks this madness, they want to shove this sickness down our throats, like get over it! Gays and lesbians are sick people, and real people gotta stand up to this sick people and say, you need help!!!!  |
