Closed Doors at Episcopal Church

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/closed-doors-at-episcopal-church/86576/

[The New York Sun] 25 Sep 2008--Just last month, the director of the Episcopal Church's Office of Government Relations, Maureen Shea, called on President Bush to open an "interests section" — essentially, a pared down embassy — in Tehran, Iran.

"For too long, the U.S. policy of non-engagement with Iran has brought us inflammatory words and provocative actions and has failed to reduce tensions or move toward a just and peaceful relationship," Ms. Shea wrote in the letter, which she also addressed to the presidential candidates. Ms. Shea's counterparts from the Quakers and the Mennonites also signed the letter.

It's amusing to watch the left-wing leadership of a religious group take President Bush to task for his administration's policy of non-engagement, because the leaders of the very same Episcopal Church last week voted to depose one its bishops for refusing to go along with the church's radical leftist agenda. And there was no debate or dialogue allowed.