Perhaps you remember the diplomatic and understated commentary that Dean Paul Zahl of the Trinity Episcopal School of Ministry offered on the eve of the episcopal election in California when he likened the possible election of a gay candidate to the detonation of a terrorist bomb.
I thought maybe he was just having a bad day, had let a remark slip that he later came to regret (if privately.) Anyone who speaks regularly to the press has had this happen.
But, no.
In his latest missive to the Trinity community he describes those with whom he is in theolgoical disagreement as “Brown shirts” and warns against “this menace over our heads, which is the gay-agenda steamroller.”
This is a reckless way to talk. If one’s opponents really are terrorists and facists, then one is justified in employing fairly drastic, even lethal measures against them. T-bomb needs to curb his violent tongue before someone gets hurt.