Pittsburgh Episcopal Bishop Duncan Faces Ouster

From WTAE-TV:

A vote could possibly split the Episcopal Church of Pittsburgh: Some members want to break away from the national church while others want to stay. At the center of the decision: Bishop Robert Duncan of Pittsburgh.
The presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church said there will be a vote this week at a meeting of

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Jesus as community organizer

Couldn’t have said this better than Democracy Lover in response to this by Barry:

I got out my super-secret Karl Rove decoder ring (which all wingnuts are issued) and learned that “community organizer” means “n**ger.” I’m not sure if Jesus was a “community organizer” or not.

Democracy Lover:

Jesus sure brought people together and taught them to help

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Community Organizer mocking as cultural trope

Ambinder nails this. The joke about community organizers like Obama for elite Republicans is “Look at this Harvard-educated dilettante. He’s so stupid that he wastes all his youth, education and opportunities on the urban poor instead of using these to benefit himself and his family. After all, we all know they would never

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More on the Community Organizer Mocking

Mocking community organizers is not the way to reach places like western PA and the rust belt battleground states.

From the Catholic Democrats:

Catholic Democrats is expressing surprise and shock that Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s acceptance speech tonight mocked her opponent’s work in the 1980s for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development.  She belittled Democratic presidential

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