Canonical legerdemain and unlawful usurpation of authority by the presiding bishop in the aim of a political agenda were a sad commentary on the moral state of the Episcopal Church, Bishop Lawrence observed.<\/p>\n
The presiding bishop would go to any lengths to exterminate dissent and would twist words to achieve her purposes. \u201cShe and her advisers will say I have said what I have not said in ways that I have not said them even while they cite words from my Bishop\u2019s Address\u201d\u009d to the South Carolina special convention, he said.<\/p>\n
But Bishop Lawrence reported that he was \u201cheartened\u201d\u009d by the support he had received by the \u201cvast majority\u201d\u009d within the diocese and from the \u201cmajority of Anglicans around the world\u201d\u009d who have \u201cexpressed in so many ways that they consider me an Anglican Bishop in good standing and consider this Diocese of South Carolina to be part of the One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church. \u201c<\/p>\n