Episcopal Church threatens Pittsburgh Diocese

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In a letter to Pittsburgh Bishop Robert Duncan on the eve of his diocesan convention, the Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church has warned that she will take "disciplinary action" if he persists, and the convention approves, a resolution that would permit the diocese to leave the American church and come under the aegis of a foreign, and more conservative, Anglican province.

The letter from Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori was sent late Wednesday.

"If your course does not change," the letter read, "I shall regrettably be compelled to see that appropriate canonical steps are promptly taken to consider whether you have abandoned the Communion of this Church...and whether you have committed canonical offenses that warrant disciplinary action."

Isn't it amazing that the only offfenses that warrant disciplinary actions for the liberals seems to be if a church or diocese or presbytery decides to leave and take their money to another group. Otherwise you can pretty much do whatever you want as long as the money keeps flowing into the denomination's national offices. Who cares if you don't really believe anything as long as you pay your dues?

And if you pay your dues, you can pretty much tell the world that you don't care if God himself appears on your back porch and tells you you're wrong on an issue. Because you're quite capable of making your own decisions and God can mind his own business.