You may recall the story of the director of the Bryan/College Station Planned Parenthood who resigned her job on October 6th after witnessing an ultrasound of an abortion. She and her husband, who grew up Lutheran, dropped out of church until two years ago, when they began attending St. Francis Episcopal Church in College Station, TX.
Shopping around for a church home, they met with opposition:
"I was raised Southern Baptist but didn't find the Southern Baptist community was very accepting of my work at Planned Parenthood," she said. "It felt there was a spiritual conflict in what I was doing, but you just begin to rationalize it. I didn't want to leave these women without options, so you begin to think you are doing the right thing, although it doesn't feel right."
As a result, she and her husband, Doug, "had been told by a couple of churches," one being Baptist and the other nondenominational, "that because I worked at Planned Parenthood, we could not be members."
Then they found St. Francis Episcopal Church (the motto of which is "Embracing, Encouraging, Empowering" by the way):
One of the things I've been told is that as Episcopalians, we embrace our differences and disagreements.
Indeed the Episcopal organization (I can not bring myself to call its national organization a 'church') has become an advocate for abortion and is a member of the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (RCRC) (a board member of which, Katherine Hancock Ragsdale, the dean of Episcopal Divinity School, preached a sermon hailing abortion as a "blessing"!).
After deciding to quit her job and begin praying outside of the abortuary where she once worked, she was suddenly no longer welcome at St. Francis.
"Now that I have taken this stand, some of the people there are not accepting of that," she told The Washington Times. "People have told me they disagree with my choice. One of the things I've been told is that as Episcopalians, we embrace our differences and disagreements. While I agree with that, I am not sure I can go to a place where I don't feel I am welcome."
But the most reprehensible quote in the story is this: "A lot of people would consider the Anglican faith a pro-choice faith." May God have mercy on the wicked usurpers who have hijacked the Episcopal Church in the service of Moloch! For this reason, I am embarrassed to call myself "Anglican" when talking to strangers; I am forced to qualify the term. My earnest prayer is that, with the rise of the new ordinariates, the association of the term "Anglican" with the Catholic Church will reclaim the once glorious name for the orthodox. Given the current trajectory of TEC of course, they will abort, contracept, and homosex themselves out of existence in 25 years anyway!
The full article is at the Washington Times. Hat tip to Fr. James O'Driscoll on the Anglican Use Group.
You do well not to refer to this organization as a church. As a matter of fact, I submit that if you wanted to, you could not. Reason being, of the four marks of the Church; those being, one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic, none are present.