In May we had the former Governor of New Jersey, James McGreevy, who had an adulterous affair with another man while governor, accepted to seminary to become an Episcopal priest. Last month we had an ordained Episcopal priest who converted to Islam allowed to remain a priest. (The local Bishop thought the whole idea was "exciting." Though, her actual Bishop did make her stop preaching and told her to think about it for a while.) Both stories made the papers - even here in Baton Rouge.
Now, we have this story in the New York Times about former porn star, Ronald Boyer, who wants to be an Episcopal priest.
The leadership of the Episcopal Church (tm) ain't stupid. They realize what image all of this portrays to us check-writing-pew-sitters, and they don't want to get us riled up (they ain't a lot of us left and they need the cash - all those legal fees, you know). So The Right Reverend J. Jon Bruno, Bishop of the Diocese of Los Angeles, went into damage-control mode and quickly wrote this reply to the Times, where he reminds them - correctly - that wanting to be a priest is not the same as going to seminary. Though, if past performance is any indicator, a new Rev. Boyer is but a few years away. I mean, he has the right theology nowadays:
"He has tired of performing in sex movies, but even now doesn’t condemn it. “Not one time did Jesus refer to pornography, or homosexuality,” he observed on the Internet show, which he began as a co-host in May. “Jesus could have commented. He didn’t.”
And Jesus didn't say a thing about failing to report income to the IRS, either. Isn't that right, Bishop Adams? He did say something about false witness, though.......
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