Posted on 04/25/2024 2:33:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A male Episcopalian bishop ripped the collar off a female reverend during an LGBT-friendly service that was emceed by a drag queen as a joke and is now being branded a misogynist for it.
The incident occurred at an LGBT-friendly Easter Vigil at Cathedral Church of St. Paul in Boston on March 30 and was caught on video that has gone viral. After Reverend Tamra Tucker forgot her words at the service, Bishop Alan M. Gates jokingly snatched her collar away and then told her he was “just kidding.” The progressive attendees did not find it funny and he is now being forced to apologize for his joke.
“It’s going to go very simply,” Rev. Tucker said during the ceremony, which was attended by several congregations and other Protestant denominations. “We’re going to allow somebody to take their own piece of bread, and you will say to the person taking the bread this.”
× She then promptly forgot the words to the ceremony. She turned to the audience and said, “Wait what is it? I’ve been gone for a while.” Rev. Tucker was then ironically reminded of the words, “The body of Christ” by the bishop. She treated it as a joke and those behind her nervously laughed. “It’s very simple. The body of Christ, that’s all you got to do.”
That’s when Bishop Gates ripped off her collar while smiling. At first, everyone laughed. A woman at the end of the dais was staring in shock with her jaw open and the drag queen clapped.
The good reverend appeared offended. Bishop Gates returned her collar and tried to apologize after telling her he was just kidding. The apology was evidently not accepted.
“Thank you,” the reverend said as the bishop put his arm around her shoulders trying to make amends. You could hear a pin drop. The congregation wasn’t offended by the LGBT crowd or the drag queen but the Bishop making a joke was just too far for the Episcopalians.
“Dang,” Reverend Tucker exclaimed in response to what happened.
Members of the church are now ALL offended over the incident and it has now become a scandal.
“It was just really sad that an occasion that is supposed to be joyous had to be marked by the specter of long-term misogyny that is pretty essential to Christianity, even in a church that feels like it has advanced past that,” Rev. Rita Powell, who is the chaplain for the Harvard Episcopal Community, told the Boston Globe.
The bishop was bullied into releasing a formal apology on April 12 according to the Daily Mail. Bishop Gates called his action “an instant of altogether misguided mischief.”
He went on to claim that ripping off her collar was “a devastating and demeaning act, which I regret with all my heart.”
“By my action, I misused my authority, failed to extend Episcopal grace, and transgressed personal space and boundaries. I am deeply sorry,” he added.
The groveling continued, “I extend my remorse and apology to the Rev. Tamra Tucker; to the Crossing community; to the Cathedral community; to other communities present; to ecumenical companions who had joined us at the Vigil; and to those in the wider church and community whom I have hurt. In our baptismal covenant, we pledge to ‘respect the dignity of every human being.’ I seek forgiveness for my failure to keep this pledge, and God’s grace to renew that commitment.”
Evidently, the apology was not sufficient.
“The day after the incident, Reverend Jay Williams, who is the lead pastor of Union Combined Parish, where Rev. Tucker’s wife is an executive pastor, condemned Bishop Gates’s action. Rev. Williams said that the incident was an example of ‘violent patriarchy and sexism.’ The reverend reproached Gates, saying that he ‘literally stripped’ the reverend ‘of her clergy collar in public,'” the Daily Mail reported.
“The male bishop tried to say it was a joke and apologize in public, but it’s no joking matter when a man publicly violates the personal space of a woman and symbolically strips her of her sign of ordination,” the reverend fumed.
“Tucker is the priest and lead organizer of The Crossing, an emerging church worship community committed to radical welcome and a safe space for all, including the LGBTQ community,” the New York Post reported.
Of course not.
BTW ...
Q: How many feminists does it take to change a lightbulb?
A: < snarling> THAT'S NOT FUNNY!!!!
The congregation wasn’t offended by the LGBT crowd or the drag queen but the Bishop making a joke was just too far for the Episcopalians.
Will someone please decipher that jargon for me? Thx.
I don’t understand Episcopalianese.
The whole service sounds like a joke.
She couldn’t bring herself to even say, “The Body of Christ.” That’s the main scandal here.
“I don’t understand Episcopalianese”
Mama said, Episcopalians are Catholics who flunked Latin.
The employees at a now defunct former ITT subsidiary had to all sign a contract about what would get us fired. It was put into a contract because none of it was otherwise legal by Florida law. One of the things was, “I agree to never, under any circumstances, tell a joke.” I paused in reading and asked the HR lady why and she said, wide-eyed, “You never know who you might offend!” I was thinking, I don’t care, but I needed the money, so I signed. It was like working in some dystopian future where everyone looked around to see who might overhear before the simplest conversation. (Any non-work-related conversation was also outlawed.)
Liberals want to control what you think. Since they can’t do that, they’ll do the next best thing and control what you can say. No humor is acceptable. Probably we’ll see fewer and fewer comedy specials on cable. They’re just too “controversial.”
Right thread? Sounds interesting.
“I agree to never, under any circumstances, tell a joke.”
You should have told them that you found their joke offensive and sued them.
Humor is objectively counterrevolutionary, comrade.
“a devastating and demeaning act...”
“By my action, I misused my authority...”
Those words would be more fitting in regard to allowing the LGBTQ and drag queens taking over the church ceremonies.
BTW - where to the drag queens fit into the LGBTQ thing? They aren’t transexuals. I suppose they fit under the “G” as homosexuals??
They’re heretics, the church ⛪️ hosting the alphabet mafia.
It IS. It’s a very sick tasteless unfunny joke.
The entire service was a filthy joke. Drag queens and queers controlling the church. Someone should have ripped the collars off of all the priests in that church. The episcopal church is run by perverts and weaklings.
Whatever religion that abomination of a “church” claims to be, it ain’t Christian. Satanic, maybe?
If the “bishop” had pulled down his trousers and stroked himself, the audience members would have applauded and most likely would have joined in the orgy. /spit
May the minions of satan destroy each other.
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