[Magdalen] Mass e-mails, was Test

[Scott Knitter]

One parishioner who left as soon as the organist and choirmaster were let
go let it be known a $2M bequest was leaving with him. I care not and would
rather not know such things,  but he apparently wanted us to know that to
lose him as a member is worse than to lose someone else.  But he wouldn't
be satisfied unless we called an old-time closeted rector with a particular
personality, as though that were essential to a Catholic parish. It
certainly ain't.

What saddens me is that people with whom I was on friendly terms have
started avoiding me because I'm not on the Save Ascension list. And I will
not participate in coffee-hour gossip about it. I'm sick of the conspiracy
theories, demonizing, lies about an "empty" church and choir loft (not
remotely true), and brickbats thrown from afar by folks who haven't been at
the church in years or ever but are sure they know what is behind the staff
changes, a sinister plot worthy of a bestseller.
On Apr 8, 2015 10:54 AM, "Jay Weigel" <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> That reminds me a lot of what happened when a few people in my late
> parents' church (ironically also named Ascension) took offense at the
> electon of +Gene Robinson in NH and in a rump meeting of *part* of the
> vestry, decided that none of those awful gay people were going to infest
> their sacred environs and put out a mass e-mail to that effect. My parents
> were furious, as was the clergy, but it did cause a split in the church and
> they lost some big contributors. The parish remains, however, the largest
> in the diocese.
>