Matt Kennedy: Diocese of San Diego: Don’t Call Them Conservatives
(by Mrs. Teresa Mathes [bishop Mathes' wife])

Mrs. Mathes accuses conservatives of abandoning the hallowed traditions of the Episcopal Church. The best answer to this charge is found in Mark 7:5-9

So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders...?" He replied, "Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: "

'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.' You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men."

And he said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!"

Mrs. Mathes' commentary here