Posted on 09/09/2014 3:39:18 AM PDT by markomalley
The Rev. Bruce Shipman, an Episcopal chaplain at Yale University, resigned in the wake of his letter to The New York Times that blamed rising anti-Semitism in Europe on Israel.
The Episcopal Church at Yale issued a statement on September 4 announcing that Shipman, “on his own initiative, had resigned as Priest-in-Charge of the Episcopal Church at Yale, effective immediately.”
The statement does not reference the letter to the Times, saying instead, “It is our belief that the dynamics between the Board of Governors and the Priest-in-Charge occasioned the resignation of the Rev. Shipman.
“The Episcopal Church at Yale, its Board of Governors, the Bishops of the Episcopal Church in Connecticut, and the Rev. Bruce Shipman are all committed to a civil dialogue on difficult issues that divide peoples of this world and pledge ourselves to the prayerful and humble work of reconciliation and peace in our hurting and divided world,” the statement concludes.
Shipman’s August 25 letter to the Times was in response to an August 20 op-ed by Deborah Lipstadt, an author and Jewish history professor at Emory University, detailing the rise in European anti-Semitic incidents.
His letter said the trend “parallels the carnage in Gaza over the last five years, not to mention the perpetually stalled peace talks and the continuing occupation of the West Bank.” It also said that “the best antidote to anti-Semitism would be for Israel’s patrons abroad to press the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for final-status resolution to the Palestinian question.”
Shipman later apologized to Yale students in a letter to the editor of the Yale Daily.
“Nothing done in Israel or Palestine justifies the disturbing rise in anti-Semitism in Europe or elsewhere,” he wrote.
Yale Episcopal...probably, enough said.
“”Yale Episcopal...probably, enough said”””
Could you expound on that?
I wonder what the duties of an Episcopal chaplain are, especially at a place like Yale. I’m guessing gay weddings and demonstrations against global warming.
Why fire him? Surely, his views fit in perfectly with the Episcopal Church and Yale.
Damn Jews upset Hitler in the 1930’s too
I know! Those Jooooooooooooooooooz!
1. Blaming Israel for anti-semitism is logically twisted enough.
2. A CHAPLAIN doing so...
3. It’s a mad, mad, MAD world. Logic fails, reason buckles, the center cannot hold....
He will be replaced with another useless lefty chaplin
HE QUIT!!!!! He was not fired as far as I can tell. He quit and did not have the cojones to ride this out....then It’s his problem.
IOW don’t blame the pro-Israel people for raising their voices. They did not fire this Paleostinian loving wuss
Secular humanism is their god, that’s all.
Every so often I go back and think "WTF?" as they rail about global warming and racial injustice.
Everybody tells me Episcopalians are just a step away from R. Catholicism, but they are not.
RCs have a deeply held belief system, whereas Episcopalian leaders merely serve a leftist agenda. I cannot respect that. They drove me out with their PC nonsense.!
But he has been okay with sex week for all these years.
What religion, in your eyes, is the better?
Throughout history the most popular thing to do has been to blame Israel for everything.
I recently read there are people who blame Israel for the Tsunami in Japan, they with great precision placed a nuclear bomb off the coast, and did it just for their own economic gain, and to so many this seems reasonable, never mind the fact that Japan has always been one of the most earthquake vulnerable locations, for severe quakes on the planet.
“Episcopailianism is just like Unitarianism nowadays, just with more green haired lesbo “ministers”.”
I occasionally attend one of the area Episcopal Churches on Sundays, and find none of that which say true. More scripture is read than most churches, sermons address the scripture, prayers all invoke Christ’s intercession - very spiritual places. And, all of their ministers around here are married with children, some with grandchildren.
If you’d like to be on or off, please FR mail me.
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Yale Chaplain Resigns Over Letter Blaming Israel for Anti-Semitism
The Chaplin is a dumb-ass without an original or insightful bone in his body. However, he has a right to state his misguided opinions as loudly as he wishes. He should not have been pressured into resigning.
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