Comments on: Honor Moore on Paul Moore; Sisk writes a pastoral letter

By: JIM FOX

JIM FOX — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 03:32:06 +0000

Father Sisk ends his letter with an assertion of such overwhelming presumtion, that all that he states prior must be dismissed out of hand.

“We are left seeing a deeply flawed man in desperate need of God’s merciful grace. As are we all.”

As are we all? What controlling personality, what vicious mind dares to make so bold as to condem every human being? Is there any more potent example of the need to exterminate religious belief?

By: Renee Zitzloff

Renee Zitzloff — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:22:16 +0000

The truth does not wound, the truth heals. For there to healing in the world, we must not only reveal our own inadequacies and flaws, we must also reveal the flaws and deceit of our ancestors–without blame or condemnation.

For the Bishop to expect younger generations to be complicit and carry on the lie(s) that he chose to live is to saddle them with a burden that may become impossible to bear. We must understand the power of lies and secrets to destroy. At any point he had the choice to step down from his pedestal and accept God’s love as the person he truly was. May he be experiencing and accepting this love right now.

By: dr gail chandler

dr gail chandler — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 03:18:12 +0000

It is perhaps inevitable that the putting together of sex and Religion will attract all sorts of people. And when the sex is gay sex we have a truly explosive combination.

Therein lies the true value of the book. It relies for its effect on a view that sex and religion are spheres which never can, never should, interlock. Thus Jesus’ mother needs to be a virgin.
Thus you and I need to also. Surely both the bishop and his daughter had more to them than is told by their respective sexual encounters. The book does not address how sex and religion relate; it assumes a Puritan point of view. Thus it is of little value.

By: Michael Ross

Michael Ross — Wed, 07 May 2008 20:57:40 +0000

What a surprise! Paul Moore was human, possessed of strengths and weaknesses, like all human beings. Let us celebrate his life for the many good things that he did and forgive him (isn’t forgiveness somewhere there in Judeo-Christian religion?) for his weaknesses.

By: Shirley Ann Mitchell

Shirley Ann Mitchell — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 16:31:12 +0000

It seems very strange to me that a “loving” daughter could feel she had to bring these facts out about her father, true or untrue. There appears no move on anyone’s part to demand proof of the facts she writes or says. Neither is the accused able to defend himself nor are his widows able come to his defense. This all seems grossly unfair.

By: Baptiste Coulmont » Archives » Paul Moore - archives privées - archives publiques

Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:20:46 +0000

[...] une double vie (il fut deux fois marié). La réaction de l’évêque épiscopalien en titre se trouve notamment ici : Though A Bishop’s Daughter reveals Paul Moore to have been a vastly more complex man than many [...]

By: Scott Gunn

Scott Gunn — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 06:30:48 +0000

I don’t know anything about that. I can tell you that in my view, action should be taken on any cleric who violates vows, especially when this violation involves people within the cleric’s cure.

Sexual orientation or sexuality doesn’t matter in my view; it is the violation of trust that matters greatly.

By: Jeffri Harre

Jeffri Harre — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:13:21 +0000

If I remember correctly, no action–at least no public action–was taken against Bishop Grein, Sisk’s immediate predecessor, when he took up with another woman while still married. Oh, wait, but that was heterosexual adultery…