[Magdalen] Where is the Episcopal Church?

[James Oppenheimer-Crawford]

Using the Underground Railroad as a pattern, we should be gearing up to be
disobedient in order to do the right thing.  I suspect (hope) that parts of
my denomination are already hard at work on this, but naturally don't talk
about it.

When the person in power is wrong to the point where wrong and evil are
hard to distinguish, any means necessary is justified to resist. This vile
thing is going to be with us for a long time, and it pays to adjust one's
mindset to accept that we will break laws to resist a profoundly evil
force.  If we stay within the box like they hope we will, they hope they
can take down the country and mold it to their will.

This sounds so extreme, so utterly unthinkable that a lot will say it is
too extreme.  No, it is not. We are barely started and we see how things
have gone.  It was started during President obama's tenure. The Democrats
tried to do the "right thing," it got them killed.  We'd have a Democratic
administration today if they had long ago just said, "No more Mr. Nice
Guy," and took them down any way necessary. Now, we've got a terribly long
road ahead before decency will be restored, and if we try to be good people
they'll kill us.  I meant that metaphorically, but you have to realize that
the mindset of these folks is such that they would literally kill us to
advance their agenda.


James W. Oppenheimer-Crawford
*“A life is like a garden. Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved,
except in memory. LLAP**”  -- *Leonard Nimoy

On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Eleanor Braun <eleanor.braun at gmail.com>
wrote:

> EPPN - the Episcopal Public Policy Network - has started an advocacy
> program for refugees.  You can read about it here:
>
> http://advocacy.episcopalchurch.org/RefugeeAdvocacy
>
> Eleanor
>
> On Mon, Jan 30, 2017 at 2:38 PM, Grace Cangialosi <gracecan at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > It's been puzzling to me that there hasn't been one word on here about
> the
> > awful edict regarding Muslim immigrants and others, including US citizens
> > and green card holders who had the misfortune to be out of the country
> last
> > Friday and now can't get back in.
> > But there also hasn't  been anything from TEC, not even from Curry. A few
> > bishops have spoken out, including ours, which is something of a welcome
> > surprise. He even said it might have to be a matter of doing civil
> > disobedience--a real surprise!
> > At any rate, our diocesan convention this weekend was a pretty somber
> > affair as this travesty unfolded. Maybe everyone is still in a state of
> > shock...
>