I personally have met every Episcopal Priest and Bishop on that altar and...

[hrmjustin]

... can tell you none of them voted for him. They must be biting their tongues right now.

Poor bastards!

God will get them through this moment!

[annabanana]

1. They're enjoying it as much as he is. . .

such a sham

[50 Shades Of Blue]

2. If they don't stand up to him who will

I don't believe what they do but isn't the founder of their belief system supposed to be the complete antithesis of this evil poser? Why are they enabling him?

[hrmjustin]

5. There is no easy answer to your legit question.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

10. It should be very easy. By enabling this pretense, they are legitimizing

This horror. They are hypocrites just like Trump.

[hrmjustin]

12. Hopefully someone says something. I just can't bring myself to watch it.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

3. Is there any way they could have declined to be involved?

Or were they stuck with this service?

[hrmjustin]

4. Most of my FB friends are Episcopalians and the clergy I know we're pleading with the cathedral

to say no. But the bishop who is as progressive as they come said they will stick to tradition.

I think they just want to get through it and go home.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

7. All the Episcopalians I know are liberals.

If I hadn't lapsed into agnosticism I'd still be a member myself; I was in a cathedral choir for years. It is, however, respectful of tradition. Often that's a good thing, but I wish this time they'd told him to go find some fundamentalist outfit for his prayer service (which he obviously doesn't give a crap about anyhow).

[hrmjustin]

9. Marble Collegiate told him in the campaign to stop saying he was a member of their church.

They claimed he hadn't shown up for decades. Liberal Presbyterian Church that his parents attended but he lost touch with them but during the primary he claimed he was still a member.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

20. I suppose most Episcopalians are liberal,

but I personally know one Episcopal priest who broke away from the larger church to found his own congregation because he's opposed to gay marriage. I think he may also think all homosexuality is a sin, but I've never had an in-depth conversation with him.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

13. So the bishop picked "tradition" over humanity.

Why am I not surprised. It's GodCo after all.

[hrmjustin]

15. She is not making money off of this!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

16. No, just blanket television exposure.

Choice made. So is my opinion of it.

[hrmjustin]

18. The national cathedral is a liberal and inclusive church.

Conservatives don't come in droves to worship there.

On Sundays their congregation are the same people every Sunday with some tourists. The only time you see the cathedral full is on Easter, Christmas, and summer.

Sorry but I know the woman and while I disagree with her choice she is a good person.

[LisaM]

6. They have the pulpit - I hope they use it!

They should stand there and preach about humility, charity, and peace for three fricking hours.

[hrmjustin]

8. He deserves a three hour sermon.

Me after 10 minutes I would cut the mic off.

[FarCenter]

11. Shocking that they would be with the Tax Collector in Chief

When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Note that Christianity went nowhere until the conversion of Emperor Constantine.

[hrmjustin]

14. Well it wasn't official until Constantine but it certainly was spreading before hand.

Then it got power and well that didn't work out well.

[FarCenter]

17. It was a minor sect - Mithraism had a similar number of followers

The real strategy for religious success is to co-opt the machinery of government.

[hrmjustin]

19. Yes this is true.

[FarCenter]

21. Mainstream Protestantism has failed to address the spiritual needs of the powerful

It's incomprehensible theology and its emphasis on social, rather than spiritual issues, has caused the professional, managerial and intellectual classes to abandon it for either atheism or for the evangelical movements. So it really has lost its political relevance as well.

[NWCorona]

22. While I would probably say no to the service I can appreciate them not making it political

I agree with you that there is no easy answer.

[lynintenn]

23. Many Episcopalians were upset that the cathedral allowed this.

He is against everything we believe in and such a disgrace for our country. He looked like he had never been in a church his actions were totally inappropriate.