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By David Virtue

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The president of Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh, (PEP) an  

inclusive organization dedicated to unseating orthodox Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan, has written an article praising incest between brother and a sister.

The short story title Weekend Practice, explores in rather turgid prose, the topic of sibling incest. Lionel E. Deimel wrote the article Weekend Practice which is at his Website Lionel Deimel Farrago described as a diverse collection of information, opinions, fiction, poetry, and trivia. (Farrago comes from the word comes from the Latin for mixed fodder.)

He writes Janet and Michael had always been frank in discussing the thornier details of growing up, a habit that made friends of both of  them uncomfortable. Michael was, after their mother, the next person to know when Janet got her first period. He was first to know when Janet went on the pill. Janet was a similarly privileged confidant when Michael had his first ejaculation.

Michael: Do you want to talk about it was the beginning of another

long evening.

Evelyn arrived right on time early Monday morning. Whatever her limitations, she was punctual. Janet was already packed. She assured Michael that he didn’t have to see her off, and she went out to the car. How was the weekend? asked Evelyn.

The corners of Janet's lips moved upward almost imperceptibly. It was good, she said Good. I got lots of schoolwork done. I saw some friends, and I worked in some really good downtime. I even got to see Michael playing on the soccer team. He’s gotten really good. And, she thought, going to bed with Michael had been good practice.

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Deimel, who says he has a Ph.D., said the idea for this story occurred to him after encountering the phrase sibling incest.

The word incest had always brought to mind sex between fathers and daughters, and this unfamiliar phrase suggested possibilities I had never considered. I am an only child it is hard even to imagine what having a sibling either male or female might be like. Nonetheless, writing the story was fun.

Deimel has been in the forefront of Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh (PEP) an organization he describes as wholeheartedly inclusive. INTERPRETATION pansexual.

PEP seeks to preserve and build our church through local, national, and international action. We provide a forum within the Diocese of  Pittsburgh for the free expression of ideas on contemporary issues, where all persons are afforded respect and Godly grace and kindness, writes.

I was already an active member of Progressive Episcopalians of Pittsburgh (PEP) when the Canon Robinson New Hampshire election was ratified by the General Convention. PEP soon found itself leading an effort to resist Bishop Duncan's attempt to break with the Episcopal Church, and I became one of the leaders of this effort. A petition, two diocesan conventions, many press interviews, and a host of other activities later, I now find myself the first president of PEP. Alas, the fight for a diverse, welcoming Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Pittsburgh (and, in fact, in the nation generally) goes on.

There is quite a story I could tell of PEP campaign against the ultraconservatives in the diocese and the Episcopal Church. Were I a compulsive blogger, I would have been telling this story as it happened.

This would probably have required my completely giving up both sleeping and trying to make a living, so I will be only so apologetic for my lack of diligence. I suspect that I will eventually get around to telling the story.

In an article titled BABES AND SUCKLINGS the revisionist Episcopal layman offers this analysis of the Episcopal Church The Anglican way has generally been to agree on how we worship and not to inquire too deeply into your exact theological beliefs beyond the basics. But the people who are supporting Bishop Duncan are very much concerned about purity. They feel they have the interpretation of Scripture. It’s very un-Anglican.

Midwest Conservative Journal writer Christopher S. Johnson unmasked Deimel progressive agendum saying, Read everything ever written by Anglican theologians from Thomas Cranmer, Lancelot Andrewes and Richard Hooker down to N. T. Wright, Alister McGrath and Kendall Harmon and you will not find a better diagnosis of why the Episcopal Church is dying than that one.

Look around my parish, say diversetarians like Deimel see how many types of Anglicans there are. That man over there thinks that Jesus Christ died on the cross for the sins of the world and rose to life again.  The woman next to him thinks the Gospel stories should be read figuratively while her lesbian lover, that woman next to her, isn’t sure what she believes about God or Jesus.

Our book club just finished reading the new biography of the Dalai Lama and we’ve just started a Cathar spirituality study group to see what the  dualist tradition can teach us.  I hope you can stay for adult education next Sunday because we’re going to begin our Introduction to Islam series.

But what great is that all of these groups can meet together to worship God on Sundays.  And isn’t that what’s really important?

No, writes Johnson, If Mr. Deimel is any indication, liberal Episcopalians don’t worship Yahweh, they worship a concept. They are rather like those French revolutionaries who turned Christian churches into temples of reason during the French Revolution.

It is indeed the Anglican way to worship together when we have differing ideas of how the Word of God is to be interpreted.  But it is most emphatically not the Anglican way to worship together when I believe in God as He is revealed in His Word while you worship a god of your own invention, concluded Johnson.

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