FRANK GRISWOLD RECEIVES BLAST FROM SOUTHERN CONE

Frank Griswold got a blast from Southern Cone Primate Greg Venables this week over a letter Griswold wrote trying to put the best light on his recent actions. Venables lashed out at Griswold saying, "you speak with clarity about your grief over the pain your actions have caused and yet you proceed with your relentless agenda. Do you not see that there is an enormous contradiction here?" Of course Frank doesn't. Pluriformity means never having to say you're wrong, and Griswold will fall on his sword rather than "betray" ECUSA's pansexualists. You can read both letters in today's digest.

PRESSURE ON LAMBETH COMMISSION CONTINUES

Continuing the pressure on the Lambeth Commission to stand firm for orthodoxy, the Rev. Canon David H. Roseberry of Christ Church, Plano reports that some 600 signatures have already been received in response to his letter, "and the list is growing daily." If you want to sign the letter you can do so by going to www@ChristChurchPlano.org. The Eames letter is also posted.

OTIS CHARLES MARRIAGE SAGA CONTINUES

In the continuing saga of the Otis Charles marriage, the retired Bishop of Utah, has been removed from his position as an assisting bishop of California and his license to officiate has been revoked by the Rt. Rev. William Swing after The San Francisco Chronicle revealed that Bishop Charles had been "married" to a four-times divorced man at St. Gregory of Nyssa Church in San Francisco, April 24. The matter is under investigation, said the Rev. Canon Michael Hansen, the diocese's executive officer.

This qualifies as one bad act in Swing's theatre of the absurd. The California bishop who heads the United Religions Initiative, a Gnostic, pan-everything grab bag of religious impulses and "spiritual" weirdos has now sandbagged Charles from functioning as a bishop in his diocese! This is the pot calling the kettle black. Swing is as revisionist and pro-gay as the day is long and now he inhibits Charles! When you have no core doctrine anything goes, and in California it goes on all the time and now Swing fires a former bishop that, deep down, he has no disagreement with…the absurd antics of ECUSA's revisionists bishops never ceases.

DIOCESE OF THE CENTRAL GULF COAST

From the Diocese of the Central Gulf Coast comes this from a Virtuosity reader. A convention address of Bishop Philip M. Duncan II excoriates the AAC. "To establish an alternative ecclesiastical body either within or without the Episcopal Church has, in my opinion, not been helpful in working together to reconcile our differences and seems to be fostering its own brand of turmoil and schism. I am not in agreement with what I understand their agenda to be. They do not have my support."

On same gender relationships and marriage he had this to say. "Our teaching on sacramental Christian marriage has not changed. It is a gift from God, a life long relationship between a man and a woman. Committed same gender relationships are part of our culture and are important to many living within this diocese. In my deliberate study of Scripture, I do not find that these relationships are affirmed nor are they blessed by the tradition as we have received it in this church. Neither do I find, as have some, the condemnation of homosexuality."

So what do you believe bishop?

"To be clear, as I have stated to the clergy and laity in other settings: the norm for ordination in this diocese continues to be a person living a single celibate lifestyle or in a heterosexual Christian marriage. I will not allow nor authorize the blessing of same gender unions within our diocese."

Bishop Duncan bemoaned the downward spiraling finances of the Diocese, noting "giving is down in a number of congregations and financial support for the Diocese is down nearly $200,000. In addition, about $233,000 of pledges to the Diocese have been restricted to Diocesan use only. We are honoring those restrictions."