The Episcopal Divinity School has hired a priestess who thinks abortion is a blessing to run the place:
The announcement on Monday, March 30 that The Rev. Dr. Katherine Ragsdale was appointed as the sixth and newest president of Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) in Cambridge, MA, has orthodox and pro-life Episcopalians shaking their heads.
Ragsdale, who is an outspoken advocate of abortion and LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) rights, was the unanimous choice of the Board of Trustees and will begin her duties on July 1, 2009.
In addition to the press release and public letter concerning the appointment, the EDS website also has a link to Rev. Ragsdale’s sermon blog. There, the first sermon is entitled, “Our Work is Not Done.” The content has been cited and circulated on a large number of pro-life and conservative Christian blogs. An excerpt follows:
“When a woman wants a child but can’t afford one because she hasn’t the education necessary for a sustainable job, or access to health care, or day care, or adequate food, it is the abysmal priorities of our nation, the lack of social supports, the absence of justice that are the tragedies; the abortion is a blessing.
“And when a woman becomes pregnant within a loving, supportive, respectful relationship; has every option open to her; decides she does not wish to bear a child; and has access to a safe, affordable abortion – there is not a tragedy in sight — only blessing. The ability to enjoy God’s good gift of sexuality without compromising one’s education, life’s work, or ability to put to use God’s gifts and call is simply blessing.
Does anyone want to call this woman Christian? Does anyone want to assert that what she’ll teach is Christianity? I mean, come on – this isn’t a difference of degree, this is positively anti-Christian. The religious left has become a self-parody. If you wrote this out for Saturday Night Live it would be rejected as too implausible.
Perhaps it is just the madness of liberalism being writ large, so that no one may mistake it anymore? The Enemy has spent time and effort putting wolves in sheeps clothing, but there is always that fact of God being sovereign and thus able to confound even the most subtle plans for undoing Christianity. Tempting a priest or pastor to insert a bit of moral relativism or materialism into a sermon is insidious – putting a pagan in charge of a supposedly Christian school is ludicrous. No one but the most purblind liberal will be fooled by this.
Close up shop, Episcopalians. Those of you who are Christian will just have to become Evangelicals or Catholics because there’s no point in belonging to an anti-Church.
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