WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S ASSISTANT OVER SEX COVER-UP
By David W. Virtue
www.episcopalian.org
8/6/2007
The editors of WIKIPEDIA, the online encyclopedia, have deleted the account of Barbara Alton, personal assistant to Pennsylvania Bishop Charles Bennison, for vandalism, saying she repeatedly tried to delete information about a sex scandal involving his deposed brother.
The Wikipedia editors cited a "conflict of interest re: Charles Bennison" and said repeated efforts by her to edit out Bennison's cover-up of his brother's sexual abuse of a minor as their reasons for deleting her account.
Following VirtueOnline's breaking story, which may be accessed at: http://tinyurl.com/2jo8kt the Wikipedia editors suspended Barbara Alton's account three times. Every time she was allowed to return, she frantically tried to delete information about Bennison's sex cover up. Each time she was suspended again. Ref: http://tinyurl.com/26jg8j
The Wikipedia editors finally deleted her account last week: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Special:Log/delete&page=User:Barbaraalton
In May VOL broke the story that Bennison's cover-up had been ordered expunged from Wikipedia on orders from Mrs. Katherine Jefferts Schori, The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop. At that time, Alton claims she was told by Mrs. Schori to remove the sexually explicit references to the bishop's cover up.
Bennison faces both ecclesiastical presentment and civil fraud charges. The ultra liberal bishop goes to court in September.. The Rev. John Bennison, Bishop Bennison's brother, was forced from his parish and resigned from The Episcopal Church when sexual allegations emerged in the Diocese of California. He avoided prosecution because of the Statute of Limitations. At the time of the abuse, he was sharing a home with his brother Charles. The scandal came to Philadelphia when family members of the abused girl presented their case in a series of town hall type meetings around the diocese. The sex abuse scandal eventually found its way into the widely read on line encyclopedia.
People searching for "Charles Bennison" on google.com are immediately confronted with a very exhaustive section on the scandal. The first thing to come up is a history of the sex scandal, which apparently caught the attention of the Presiding Bishop's office.
Here is an example: "Exec Asst to Bishop Bennison again deleted inflammatory and libelous text. 17:26, 21 May 2007 Barbaraalton External Links - The links about scandals must be deleted per order of the Presiding Bishop in her address to ECCP in New York available on podcast. She requires us to focus on the mission of the church." Alton then removed all the references, many of them related to VirtueOnline stories about the bishop's behavior.
VirtueOnline sent the Wikipedia sections to Mrs. Schori, but has not received a response. Click here: http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Charles_Bennison&action=history
The request to delete various entries regarding Bennison and the sex scandal go back to November 2006 and take up several pages in Wikipedia.
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| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/8/7 15:47 Updated: 2007/8/7 15:47 |
Home away from home   Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6795 |
 Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A...Hooray....good for Wikipedia! Not afraid to "tell it like it is," are they? The truth shall prevail!
Cennydd |
| ZachD | Posted: 2007/8/7 16:02 Updated: 2007/8/7 16:04 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2005/11/10 From: Posts: 1784 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... I laughed and laughed! -- in my thoughts.
Maybe the PB might do her own dirtywork and schmooze a cover-up out of Wikipedia. She MUST have some special talent in this regard - as she puts it to work daily in the sham of her office. |
| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/8/7 17:15 Updated: 2007/8/7 17:15 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6795 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... "the sham of her office?" My brother, you said a MOUTHFUL! Her tenure has been a disaster of megaproportions! She might be a nice lady personally....I have little doubt that she probably is....but as a clergyperson, I think she was woefully unprepared to become a "bishop."
My personal view is that no woman can be "ordained," and that any such ordination is invalid....that no woman can be "priested or consecrated bishop." Cennydd |
| JDoorjam | Posted: 2007/8/7 18:00 Updated: 2007/8/7 18:00 |
Just popping in   Joined: 2007/8/7 From: Posts: 1 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... There is a semantical misunderstanding of Wikipedia here: accounts are never deleted. It was just her user page, which is just basically a user profile. Her account was blocked indefinitely, but not deleted. She can still log in, therefore, but not edit any page besides her talk page.
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| morrismpls | Posted: 2007/8/7 18:45 Updated: 2007/8/7 18:45 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2004/1/4 From: Posts: 493 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... So Al Gore thinks he invented the internet and KJS thinks she controls it? Who does she think she is? Communist China?
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| Causidicus | Posted: 2007/8/7 18:55 Updated: 2007/8/8 14:34 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/7/3 From: Posts: 1083 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... More like North Korea morrismpls.
Cennydd, I know you are trying to be a gentleman; but any woman who directs a watergate style coverup through others is not exactly behaving as a lady. What a church! Or better yet: What, a church? Causidicus |
| Laytone | Posted: 2007/8/7 18:57 Updated: 2007/8/7 18:57 |
Just can't stay away  Joined: 2004/5/21 From: Brewton, Alabama Posts: 90 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... It will be even more difficult to cover and remove the stains of our sins. Our Lord calls us to repent and return, so that we might be forgiven. Contrary to the revisionist doctrine,we are not able to erase or delete them ourselves. This story is practically a parable.
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| Ikerliker | Posted: 2007/8/7 21:53 Updated: 2007/8/8 9:46 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2007/1/16 From: PA Posts: 2046 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... Fractured Fairy Tales, LOL!!!
-Chuckles is possibly the worst example of an Episcopalian ever. You can't make this stuff up folks. It's weirder than a Stephen King novel and just as scary, in different ways. |
| frcochran | Posted: 2007/8/8 1:06 Updated: 2007/8/8 1:06 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2004/6/28 From: Posts: 544 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... Dear Ikerliker,
I must respectfully disagree. The sad reality is that "Chuckles" is very representative of Episcopalians, at least of those who wear the purple shirts and pointy hats. Of course not all, but I bet we could name numerous bishops and bishopettes cut from the same mold as him. John+ |
| Cennydd | Posted: 2007/8/8 2:43 Updated: 2007/8/8 2:43 |
Home away from home Joined: 2005/10/30 From: Los Banos, CA, Anglican Diocese of San Joaquin Posts: 6795 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... I can think of at least one bishop in a Northeastern diocese....I won't name it....who about forty years ago was known as a womanizer while he was in office, so in that respect, things haven't changed much....unfortunately.
Cennydd |
| MarkP | Posted: 2007/8/8 2:57 Updated: 2007/8/8 2:57 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2004/11/11 From: Diocese of El Camino Real Posts: 319 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... "In May VOL broke the story that Bennison's cover-up had been ordered expunged from Wikipedia on orders from Mrs. Katherine Jefferts Schori, The Episcopal Church's Presiding Bishop. At that time, Alton claims she was told by Mrs. Schori to remove the sexually explicit references to the bishop's cover up."
At one time, I thought the change in the Tradition of the RC to include women in the priesthood would have solved the propensity to rationalize and/or deny real cases of sexual abuse. I stand corrected. It appears women bishops are as capable of chicanery and deception (stupidity, callousness, careless, --but I digress) as any man. Thank you, +KJS, for proving that women bishops can hold their own with the RC bishops! |
| Ikerliker | Posted: 2007/8/8 9:58 Updated: 2007/8/8 9:58 |
Home away from home Joined: 2007/1/16 From: PA Posts: 2046 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... There may others who are in the "same mold" as -Chuckles, but he is at the head of the class. Even the liberals in this diocese hate him and have moved against him. He virtually has no supporters and people avoid him like the plague. He is a sociopath with no redeeming values that I have ever picked up on. He is worse than most of the pointy hat crew and is about ready to get deposed and/or go to jail depending on the lawsuits and presentments being brought against him and his diocese is a shambles. I would say John Spong might be worse. Wickipedia only scratches the surface.
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| Rachmnnoff | Posted: 2007/8/8 11:19 Updated: 2007/8/8 11:19 |
Home away from home  Joined: 2007/3/15 From: Mauna Kea@13796 ft. Posts: 338 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... Mrs. Bongwater Q. Liberalstein aka KJS faithfully does the bidding of the democrap party, whose fangs are deeply sunk into the hide of wikipedia. So lets not pretend that there is an ounce credibility in the veracity of wikipedia articles.
*Chuckles Bennisin*, whose value as a priest has dropped as precipitously as Angel Falls in South America will soon receive his come-uppance. Lets us continue to carefully nurture the vineyard that our Triune God has granted us and not pay attention to the fiery immolation that is currently being visited upon the heretics in C of E and TEC, lest we become as pillars of salt like those who turned around to view the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah. |
| russedav | Posted: 2007/8/11 11:40 Updated: 2007/8/11 11:40 |
Home away from home Joined: 2004/6/8 From: Ft. Wayne, IN Posts: 279 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... This is something to mourn at, not rejoice in, as 1 Corinthians 13 makes plain. As Jesus said in Luke 13, unless we repent we shall all likewise perish. That those pretending to be "orthodox" Anglicans could tolerate such proud and ungodly muck raking versus God's order that love covers all [not some] sins (Prov 10:12) shows the danger or pride, the root of all sin. God help us. Unless we repent we shall all likewise perish.
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| xEpiscopal | Posted: 2007/8/15 0:53 Updated: 2007/8/15 0:53 |
Just can't stay away  Joined: 2006/5/11 From: Posts: 72 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... Wired Blogs has a feature on Wikipedia edits..make sure you vote for your favorite example at:
Wired Threat Level Article (although I almost voted for several others...some great candidates there...) |
| SMVite | Posted: 2007/8/17 4:52 Updated: 2007/8/17 4:52 |
Just popping in Joined: 2006/12/4 From: Posts: 1 |
Re: WIKIPEDIA DELETES ACCOUNT OF BISHOP BENNISON'S A... At least wikipedia has policed this case in what looks like a reasonable way. Is this Barbara Alton the same Alton who is married to the Anglocatholic former rector of St. Mark's, Philadelphia, Richard Alton?
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