ABC's Take on the Episcopal Rift
Posted by Ken Shepherd on December 18, 2006

ABC's Laura Marquez displayed last night how the media just don't get religion.

Introducing her story on a rift in the Episcopal Church as conservative parishes in Northern Virginia voted to leave the American branch of the Anglican Communion for greener theological pastures, Marquez blamed conservatives for troubling the church's still waters.

"Members of Virginia's Truro Church may have been singing the words "The Church's One Foundation," but the action they took today rocked that foundation to its core."

In other words, conservative, orthodox Episcopalians are the bad guys, prompting a "secession" as Marquez called it, from the Episcopal Church. But that just shows Marquez's confusion as to the church's true foundation.

The opening stanza of the scripturally-inspired hymn Marquez was referring to talks of Christ being the foundation of the church and the third stanza speaks of Christ guarding His Church from "those who hate her" and "false sons in her pale" and how over "both foe or traitor, She ever shall prevail." the rest