Did we know there was still an Episcopalian Church? I thought they’d closed their social gathering halls when they decided that Christ was optional

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Apparently the old dears are still going, at least a few of them, and now they’ve proclaimed that the Jesus in which they once believed calls them to be racists (“well, we always were, but now we’re on the right side — isn’t that cool?”

Meeting of the klavern, Christ Episcopal Church: “We’re symbolic blacks, now, and let that be sufficient unto tHe day”

In a striking move that ends a nearly four-decades-old relationship between the federal government and the Episcopal Church, the denomination announced on Monday (May 12) that it is terminating its partnership with the government to resettle refugees, citing moral opposition to resettling white Afrikaners from South Africa who have been classified as refugees by President Donald Trump’s administration.

In a letter sent to members of the church, the Most Rev. Sean W. Rowe — the presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church — said that two weeks ago the government “informed Episcopal Migration Ministries that under the terms of our federal grant, we are expected to resettle white Afrikaners from South Africa whom the U.S. government has classified as refugees.”

“In light of our church’s steadfast commitment to racial justice and reconciliation and our historic ties with the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, we are not able to take this step,” Rowe wrote. “Accordingly, we have determined that, by the end of the federal fiscal year, we will conclude our refugee resettlement grant agreements with the U.S. federal government.”