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[quote=Anonymous]OP here.[i] Whatever, Jesus wept poster.[/i] Jesus was not a politician.[b] We are Episcopalians.[/b] I don't want to send the message that I disagree with these political positions because I don't. I think getting up and walking out would be a hugely confrontational move--I don't want to put my kids through that. We sit near the front every Sunday, walking out would be really disruptive. [b]I just can't understand what is going on at St. Columba's, really.[/b] The parish is and has always has been very liberal largely hetero families (in fact, I don't know ANY gay couple families that go there) But over the last 4 years or so gay men and women have slowly filled the ranks of the clergy (which is fine...) and now virtally every sermon begins with:"my partner and I...blah-blah-blah or a long winded tale of why gay marriage should be recognized right here and now--let's have a gay marriage ceremony RIGHT NOW just to show how ok we are with it or a story about how the US Congress should be resolving this or that issue in a more liberal or progressive way (which I generally agree with but just don't want to think about at all during church) I know ours is a parish of liberal policy wonks, I am one! But not on Sunday! There is a huge family/kid presence at St. Columba's. I just can't believe how the spirituality issues that I think most of the families there come for are being trampled by this "cabal" of gay activists on the pulpit. Any day now the new Bishop is going to be invested. It is a woman. I don't know for a fact but I'm guessing she is probably lesbian. I don't know of another local Episcopal church that has the same level of intimacy as St. Columba's. I don't want to go to the Cathedral or St. Alban's--it's too big. Besides, I feel like these people have hijacked the church from its own parish.[b] I don't know what to do, but abandoning the church doesn't seem right.[/b] I feel cowed by the pastors and I wonder if enough people feel the same way, if we could oust them--or get them to just sthu about politics in the sermon?[/quote]

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