[Magdalen] More Clergy DWI

[Jim Guthrie]

raewynne1 at gmail.com writes:

>The socioeconomic makeup of USA Episcopalians has changed
>through the years.  It used to be that Episcopalians were "the  Republican
>Party at prayer", but there has been a big swing in the liberal  direction
>in recent decades.  As a result, a lot of the wealthy conservatives  have
>packed up and gone elsewhere.  Those who remain are a notch down
>the socioeconomic ladder.

Mostly nonsense. Ask the old-timers (if any are left) about the Republicans who 
led the "Republican Party at Prayer" at St James, for example. All were liberal 
Rockefeller/liberal Republicans, as were many others in TEC.  Huntington, 
Barrett, Miller to name a few who were still around in my time --- but you can 
go back long before that, too. They were all big fans of Jacob Javits and Ken 
Keating in my day -- both Republican liberals.

You can go back a long time and find the same was true everywhere -- J. P. 
Morgan was a Republican, for example, but in addition to building hospitals and 
the like, as Warden of St George's in NYC, made sure there were liberal -- even 
radical -- Rectors installed.

There are, to be sure, conservatives who’ve left -- but I'm sure that if you, 
say, look at the situation in South Carolina, you'll find that most of those 
who've left in favor of the schismatics were once Democrats --  as were 
conservatives throughout the South. Republicans there were the party of 
African-Americans and Liberals back in the day. And just because there were 
well-meaning efforts to integrate parishes, we, essentially, kicked the people 
of color out of TEC>

In short, the "Republican Party at Prayer" has no relationship to today's 
Republicans.

Cheers,
Jim Guthrie