SAN FRANCISCO (CA)
Virtue Online
By David W. Virtue & Mary Ann Mueller
www.virtueonline.org
October 8, 2012
Episcopal California Bishop Marc Andrus is livid. A few days ago, he gave the new San Francisco Roman Catholic archbishop a backhanded welcome to the neighborhood stressing the wonders of The Episcopal Church’s Millennium Development Goals. and Then he turned on the high level cleric for not showing appropriate pain for gays and his church’s alleged “oppression” of gays.
At the installation of the new Archbishop, Andrus showed up late and missed the procession of interfaith clergy who were to be seated up front. The enthronement was held at the Cathedral of Saint Mary of the Assumption, a sweeping paraboloid geometric type structure with a saddle roof. It seats more than two thousand. Representatives from the Jewish community, the Buddhists, and the Mormons in addition to Orthodox and Protestant Christians were seated. Church staff said they were looking for an opportunity to bring the bishop in without disrupting the service, according to diocesan spokesperson George Wesolek. When they went to retrieve him, he had already left.
Andrus got into a snit and plastered the Internet with his own interpretation of events.
He issued multiple press releases about his poor treatment. The Episcopal press took to fainting in their couches. The archdiocesan communications director said, “He wants a fight.”
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