To talk theologically [sic] about women's right to choose is to talk about justice, equality, health and wholeness, and respect for the full humanity and autonomy of every woman. Typically, as moral theologians, we discuss the value of potential life (the fetus) as against the value of lived life - the mature and relational life of a woman deciding her capacity to continue or terminate a pregnancy. And we believe that, in general, the value of that actual life outweighs the value of the potential.
Well so what, you may ask, how does the self-centered twaddle above differ from what spews forth everyday from the Episcopal Church? Here's how: the woman who wrote it is a "priest" and she herself had an abortion while studying for the priesthood; a result of a roll in the hay with a fellow of whom she said "was not someone I would have married" and not "a candidate for fatherhood." She does not regret her decision. She had a kid earlier with her now ex-husband but chose to abort the next one, explaining: "Both choices were choices for life: in the first instance, I chose for the life of the unborn child; in the second, I chose for my own vocational life, my economic stability, and my mental and emotional health and wholeness."
These are the narcissists who become priests these days in the Episcopal Church. I should think this woman "priest," along with ex-governor of New Jersey and turnpike restroom aficionado, James "Knees" Mcgreevey, now a candidate for the Episcopal priesthood, ought to persuade any remaining orthodox Episcopalians still wavering to flee. Can anyone now doubt the institution is finished?
(h/t StandFirm)
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