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ECUSA: Jesus Sez, "Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me . . . Except If They're in the Womb"

[Note to my Anglican friends: If the title hasn't already tipped you off, you will be offended by what follows. Stop reading here.]

Earlier we learned that the ECUSAn Executive Council, legitimized ECUSA's relationship with the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. Now, the ECUSAn Diocese of Washington wants to beatify the late SCOTUS Justice Thurgood Marshall (first resolution; pdf file).

Without regard for his personal safety and with immense energy, he tore down the barriers which had kept generation of African Americans from taking their rightful place in society. Thurgood Marshall was the author of major social changes from which everyone benefits. He died on January 24, 1993. . . . (emphasis added)

Well, not exactly everyone benefits from the social changes he helped to engineer. I'm thinking of his signing with the majority court in the Roe v. Wade decision. In fact, if this website, is accurate, Justice Marshall was instrumental in extending the right to an abortion into the third trimester, paving the way for partial birth abortion. Too bad for the unborn baby, er, I mean the non-person fetus thingy.

And apparently Justice Marshall thought his service as SCOTUS justice was more important than his service as a parishioner in a local parish.

Thurgood Marshall believed very strongly in the Constitutional principle of the separation of church and state. Consequently, once he became a Supreme Court Justice, he attended church very infrequently Concerned that he would develop partisan political views which affect his judgment as a Justice . . . . (emphasis added)

But, hey, ECUSAn Grace Cathedral thinks Justice Marshall was all that.

Before he died, Thurgood joined John Glenn as the only living Americans to have a clerestory window dedicated to them at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco.

So, apparently, being a Saint in the Episcopal Church^TM means rarely having to go to Eucharist on Sunday mornings.

'Kay.

It must also mean that you can align yourself with the majority decision in the Roe v Wade case, and still be considered a Saint in the Episcopal Church^TM.

Indeed, given the way things are going, forget the documented miracles, it appears that qualifications for sainthood in ECUSA include two or more documented votes or judicial decisions for legalizing abortion on demand.

But if that weren't bad enough, it seems that Jesus approved of all that Justice Marshall did by giving him infallible insight into truth and justice. Check out the collect for Justice Marshall (pdf file):

Eternal and Ever-Gracious God, you blessed your servant Thurgood with special gifts of grace and courage to understand and speak the truth as it has been revealed to us by Jesus Christ. Grant that by his example we may also know you and seek to realize that we are all your children, brothers and sisters of Jesus Christ , whom you sent to teach us to love one another; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God for ever and ever. Amen. (emphasis added)

So, Justice Marshall's judicial vote to legalize abortion on demand, and his efforts to get it extended through the third trimester, means he understood and spoke the truth "as it has been revealed to us by Jesus Christ."

Apparently I missed it, but Jesus gave an exception clause to his demand to "Suffer the little children to come unto me"--except if they happen not to be born yet.

Ichabod.

Posted by Clifton at January 30, 2006 09:23 AM | TrackBack