{"id":35942,"date":"2012-11-29T18:30:19","date_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/a-s-_haley_on_the_episcopal_church-dysfunction_everywhere\/"},"modified":"2012-11-29T18:30:19","modified_gmt":"2012-11-29T18:30:19","slug":"a-s-_haley_on_the_episcopal_church-dysfunction_everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35942","title":{"rendered":"A.S. Haley on The Episcopal Church&#8211;Dysfunction Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So ECUSA, through its hopelessly conflicted Disciplinary Board for Bishops, blames the Bishop for the actions of the Diocese &#8212; even though he had no vote on them to begin with, and no Constitutional power to set aside the acts of the diocesan convention.<\/p>\n<p>And then the Presiding Bishop, while trying with one hand to lure Bishop Lawrence into further mediation talks, uses her other hand to sign a certificate restricting his ministry &#8212; and then still wants to continue talks as scheduled while keeping his restriction &#8220;confidential.&#8221; (Oh, yes, that would certainly work.)<\/p>\n<p>To top it off, she then claims that &#8220;her hands were tied,&#8221; and that once she received the certification that he personally had &#8220;abandoned&#8221; ECUSA by the actions the diocesan convention took, she had &#8220;no choice&#8221; but to restrict him.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2012\/11\/ecusa-ecusa-dysfunction-everywhere.html\">Read it all<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So ECUSA, through its hopelessly conflicted Disciplinary Board for Bishops, blames the Bishop for the actions of the Diocese &#8212; even though he had no vote on them to begin with, and no Constitutional power to set aside the acts<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=35942\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,66,168,373,372,376,646,379,371,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-episcopal-church-tec","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-presiding-bishop","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-conflicts","category-tec-conflicts-south-carolina","category-tec-diocesan-conventionsdiocesan-councils","category-tec-polity-canons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}