[Magdalen] TEC suspended from Anglican Communion

[Jay Weigel]

One problem with Cruz seems to be that his mother is listed on the voter
rolls in Canada, and one has to be a Canadian citizen to vote there, so
either she committed voter fraud or she was a Canadian citizen, and the
question is when that happened.

On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 4:10 PM, Roger Stokes <roger.stokes65 at btinternet.com
> wrote:

> On 16/01/2016 20:31, Lynn Ronkainen wrote:
>
>> ..clear teaching of scripture... At a small dinner gathering of 5 last
>> night -the hosts a couple who are friends and the guests (my) Jim and I and
>> a friend who they had invited last minute.
>> The friend and my friends have left TEC some time ago for a local AMIA
>> church that had the big bucks to buy a local indie non-denom church
>> building (vacated for a larger space) which, IMO, allowed their church to
>> attract other AMIERs who were meeting in obscure temporary digs for years
>> and those under under other names (REC too).
>>
>
> The AMiA is proof that the split in TEC did not atart with the
> consecration of +Gene Robinson.  The AMiA was formed before the call for
> nominations which concluded with +Gene's election.  There are some who
> would prefer to ignore this sequence of events, and the subterfuge and
> deception that preceded the consecration of Chuck Murphy and John Rodgers
> in January 2000.  They will also draw a veil over what happened after the
> Primates agreed not to do anything that would further weaken the bonds of
> communion and some Primates promoted further incursions into the USA.
>
> The other guest is a campaign manager for a local candidate for county
>> office. She is a zealous bible believer with all manner of proof to back up
>> her ideals. Anxious to rep a bible believing candidate... My tongue hurts
>> this morning even though I tried to respond sparingly to some of her
>> AMAZING conclusions about the state of world and country and apparently
>> intent on saving me from the flames of hell with verbatim bible verses and
>> references to "reliable" historical reading on the Muslim menace EVERYWHERE
>> particularly in the US. By the end of the evening she was, seriously,
>> begging for me to let her provide all the info I would need to see the
>> light.
>> Even real history wasn't a deterrent to her truth.
>> Sigh.
>> After a bit of exegesis on the error of anyone who tried to
>> explain/believe/encourage that Allah is in any way "related" to "our God "
>> I must admit that I let her know what I believed and shared a bit of
>> history of the first 6 centuries she knew she needed to save me...
>> History was trumped by bible verse and citation... I didn't dare share my
>> truth does not always mean fact.   I did settle down quickly to become a
>> good guest.
>> Quite an inside peek into Teaparty politics.
>>
>> (And then continued news this morning about our boy Ted Cruze... Federal
>> lawsuit that naturalized does not equal natural born. That on the heels of
>> yesterday's Washington Post article by a constitutional lawyer laying out
>> that the intention of the ruling on this most probably not equate the
>> guaranteed citizenship with the actual meaning of "natural born".
>> Life stays interesting here in the big TX
>>
>
> I think the Cruz eligibility question really does need to be tested in
> court, and fast-tracked to the Supreme Court.  It is not good for democracy
> if there are credible doubts as to the whether someone seeking nomination
> for the Presidency is eligible to serve in that capacity.
>
> Roger
>