Sabbath Healings Have Got To Stop!

As long as canon law is followed to the last letter, it's OK to set fire to your own house and walk away, but if a fire truck pulls up and parks in a passenger-loading-only zone, then somebody had better issue that truck a parking ticket pronto.

File this little flap under, "the kind of things we hear from [The Episcopal Church] towards the end of a campaign." (to adapt a recent quote from Obama about the Clinton campaign).

From The Living Church. See comments on T19. Bold emphases mine.

In a statement given to a reporter from The Living Church, a spokesman for Presiding Bishop Gregory Venables of the Southern Cone said the provincial leadership was aware of the constitutional impediments before voting unanimously to issue its “emergency, temporary and pastoral” invitation to affiliate. “Both the House of Bishops of the Southern Cone and the General Synod decided to go ahead because of the nature of the emergency,” the spokesman said.