{"id":1720,"date":"2011-11-29T04:48:38","date_gmt":"2011-11-29T04:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1720"},"modified":"2011-11-29T04:48:38","modified_gmt":"2011-11-29T04:48:38","slug":"it_is_his_perogitive_-_google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1720","title":{"rendered":"What does it mean to &#8211; include?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/profile.php?id=521576524\">Episcopal News Service<\/a>, November 28, 2011, reported the conclusion of the disciplinary charges made against the Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;<a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Episcopal_Church_%28United_States%29\" title=\"Episcopal Church (United States)\" rel=\"wikipedia\">The Episcopal Church<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/generalconvention.org\/ccab\/mandate\/275\" target=\"_blank\">Disciplinary Board for Bishops<\/a> Nov. 28 said it cannot certify that <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Episcopal_Diocese_of_South_Carolina\" title=\"Episcopal Diocese of South Carolina\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Diocese of South Carolina<\/a> Bishop Mark Lawrence has abandoned the communion of the church.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;Based on the information before it, the board was unable to make the<br \/>\nconclusions essential to a certification that Bishop Lawrence had<br \/>\nabandoned the communion of the church,&#8217; the Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson<br \/>\nJr., board president, said in a statement e-mailed to Lawrence and<br \/>\nreporters.&#8221;<\/i><i><br \/><\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.episcopalchurch.org\/79425_130606_ENG_HTM.htm\">Link to the article details&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I am thankful for this. After working 20 years in higher education, I can say that I&#8217;ve found (pseudo) liberals (in name only) to be particularly exclusive and spiteful despite their demand for the right of radical &#8220;inclusion.&#8221; Whether I agree with this bishop is not the point &#8211; the point is that if we truly, honestly want a Church in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Anglicanism\" title=\"Anglicanism\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Anglican tradition<\/a> of allowance of different perspectives, then he and his diocese have the absolute prerogative to be included. Whether I am personally gleeful, hurt, thankful, angry, or whatever emotion I might have related to their perspective is irrelevant. We are not a fundamentalist Church, whether the fundamentalists are liberal or conservative.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: medium none; float: right;\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/pixy.gif?x-id=65874501-92e0-4b96-8655-3b6a8217e406\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Episcopal News Service, November 28, 2011, reported the conclusion of the disciplinary charges made against the Rt. Rev. Mark Lawrence: &#8220;The Episcopal Church&#8216;s Disciplinary Board for Bishops Nov. 28 said it cannot certify that Diocese of South Carolina &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1720\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican","category-personal","category-the-episcopal-church"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}