"By Heresies Distressed": Episcopal Bishopess Schori On Immigration

My magnificent local Episcopalian Church, built by an earlier and very different generation of New Englanders, did not get an offering from me this Sunday---admittedly, the first time I've attended since the birth of my new daughter [1] on August 4; our routines have been disrupted, by God's ineffable grace.

My general feelings of thankfulness and benevolence were brought to a screeching halt when my teenage daughter [2] pointed, with a mischievous grin, to an insert in the Order of Service: We must join immigration dialogue [3], by the church's appalling [4]Presiding Bishopess, Katharine Jefferts Schori [5].

I haven't yet been able to find out if Episcopalian churches were required to distribute this tissue of treason [6] and untruth, every line of which has been refuted repeatedly on VDARE.COM over the past ten years. I suspect they were. I do know that (at least in Connecticut) they were required to endorse the black church burning hoax [7] that was the fashionable liberal cause of the late 1990s.

Even beyond the usual national and racial self-abasement is Schori's absolutely unreconstructed economic left-looneyism:

We cannot separate the immigration issue from the economic systems in which we all participate and from which only some profit.

While revealing Schori's real anti-capitalist agenda, the implication here is not merely analytically untrue: it is the precise inverse of the truth. A central point in the immigration patriot critique [8] of the current mass immigration policy is that it redistributes income from labor to capital, and is significantly responsible for the inflation-adjusted wage stall [9]of the last few decades.

I have personal reason [10] to regard the liberal Episcopalian hierachy with contempt. But also I contrast Schori with Len Munsil [11]'s powerful defense of American sovereignty from an Evangelical Protestant standpoint, published August 28 in the Arizona Republic: Christian stance on immigration: "Obey the governing authorities [12]"

Munsil ran against Janet Napolitano [13] for Arizona Governor in the Bush-cursed year of 2006 [14]. What a different world it would be if he were now standing in RINO Jan Brewer' [15]s place, a national figure as a result of signing SB 1070 [16].

Like most Episcopalians, I take refuge in form rather than content---the architecture and the stained glass, the beautiful liturgy, the historic and powerful hymns. But it was a bitter irony that we sang, with no apparent awareness of irony, Samuel Wesley's great The Church's One Foundation [17], which includes this verse:

Though with a scornful wonder
Men see her sore oppressed,
By schisms rent asunder,
By heresies distressed:
Yet saints their watch are keeping,
Their cry goes up, “How long?”
And soon the night of weeping
Shall be the morn of song!