Anglican World Communion Faces Schism.

The New Yorker has an article on the Episcopal Church's schism between the lazy ("affirmative") moral relativism of non-Christian "Bishops" like Spong and Griswold and the gay Gene Robinson versus the transformative {read traditional) World Communion which rightly regards the American "Church" as a social club for "I'm okay, you're okay" flakiness-purveyors.

Peter Boyer is the author and has a clear bias toward the gay Bishop Robinson [remind you of the Graduate in drag?] who believes that homosexuality, like Portnoy's Complaint, is who he is, no ifs, ands or buts and forget about scripture [which Bishop Spong explains is something he and other illuminati have long since "evolved" beyond].

You may catch a hint of bias in my brief rendition of the thesis/antithesis above. I did not think that Pope Ratzinger would be very good for the RC Communion, but after reading Boyer's roughly-balanced argument, I'll take the Papist route rather than the exciting existential twists and turns of making it up as I go [the ECUSA or Episcopal Church USA route] that promises to split the North American Communion asunder. Bishop Duncan, the anti-gay antagonist of Robinson, has taken many parishes/churches out of the national communion, but the crew headed by Bishop Griswold [who claims one of his ancestors helped kill Thomas a Becket] has been confiscating the Church property and a slew of lawsuits has ensued.

So much for scandalizing the Faithful, but the ECUSA has seen a steady hemorrhage of communicants over the last decades and is down to 2.5 million from nearly 4 million back in the 20th century.

Tucker Carlson, who is the son-in-law of the headmaster of my daughter's school, does a good job excoriating the William Sloane Coffin ["Are You Running With Me, Jesus"] types who occasionally populate his MSNBC Show. Boyer does not mention in his article the large numbers of Anglican priests who were ordained as RC priests and given a celibacy dispensation allowing them to keep their wives.

The Showdown will come at the world Lambeth Conference in London in a couple of years; by then the ECUSA should be in full disarray. The creative destruction of postmodernism is destroying the oh-so-social remnants of an already fading phenomenon of the American Scene.

Prayer may be the answer. In the meantime, Boyer summed it up when he described that the ECUSA's only heresy is that heresy exists. Better to form another set of committees and kick the can down the road, leaving the scut work to the lawyers.