Star-Ledger: McGreevey will become Episcopal Priest

It's like McGreevey is being advised by the writers of Saturday Night Live.

The mantra of the Progressive socialists is that definitions of morality etc, are what you want them to mean when they conflict with your agenda. This is the ultimate in hypocracy get this oops I dont qualify now to be a Catholic, let me try another. Mc Greevey and NJ perfect together defining deviancy downwards.

Transgender operation? Inter-species marriage? Please just stop the madness!!

The American Episcopal Church is little more than a social club for the remnants of WASP aristocracy. It's survival now is based on reaching out to the self-imposed religously disenfranchised with a message of personal absolution, unity with the natural world and god, as a mere afterthought, being nothing more than an inner voice granting graces for "it feels good so do it" behavior. McGreevey apparently appreciates a motto that, much like Christ, "does not condemn you, either" yet, unlike Christ, opts not to tell you "to go forth and sin no more."

part of me says "everyone -- including mcgreevy -- deserves the grace to ammend their life." the other part of me says "Him again?"

How fitting Impeach Bush? Only if the reason is that he violated his oath by refusing to close the border with Mexico and stop the invasion occurring there. If that were the reason I would say yes!

There is always room for another deviant in the Episcopal Church since repentance is not required for acceptance. I think that McGreevey bought the wrong plan for his life now he is trying to find his way back in the wrong church. So sad. :( Republican Conscience

Walkdown, do you mean new jersey democrats are not corrupt? or is Jim McGreedy not gay? Let me guess, you voted for Bob the Torch and Jim "Machiavelli" McGreevey. Ever notice that idiots consistently vote for corrupt politicians? Or are you a crook yourself? Hmmm...

Unbelievable! What is next? Sainthood?

One day after taking the limelight away from him, this thin-lipped, bottom feeding lowlife figures why not announce I'm going to become an Episcopal priest, even though I haven't even gotten into a theological program yet.

OK -- two words for the McGreevey's.  GO AWAY!!!!!

This egotistical bas---d can't get enough of it.  Poor little Jimmy.  So persecuted.  Please apologize for making the state look like an ass in front of the world and please crawl back under the rock you came from and gie us a break.

Hey - you really are a pathetic loser Jimmy boy.

Perhaps the former governor has had a conversion experience. St. Paul of Tarsus was a politician (albeit low-level) for Rome in his time. He saw the blinding light of Christ on the road to Damascus and became Christianity's greatest promoter.

Maybe McGreevey has also seen the light. Pehaps he has a message to heal New Jersey's fractured Christianity.

Modern theological rumor has it that Paul was also gay. So there you go. Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.

Perhaps, jbennett. 

But perhaps we -- who have had to witness him repeatedly and very publicly renouncing each of his core attachments, his family twice, his party, his sexuality, his Governorship -- are simply seeing that he has found himself yet another pathway to public recognition?

By the way, not to quibble about whether Paul was a politician, but he was a mohair tent maker by training who said he, as a devotee of the Pharisees, persecuted the Christians before his conversion. He certainly was not a Roman politician, though he was a citizen.

Now as for Jim, perhaps he was just soooo enthusiastic, that he felt the urgent need to let everyone know about it in spades, rather than just quietly going about reestablishing his life.  Most would agree, I think, that this latest information got out there because Jim McGreevey very much wanted it to be out there.

And, of course, we haven't heard any of the elements your highly suppositional version of events from him -- all we've heard about is that he's on the road to becoming an Episcopal priest, the focus being on the soon-to-be status, and not on the faith.

Then too, there is your novel guess about him possibly bringing a fractured New Jersey back to the Christian fold – but through New York? Why not through the Newark Diocese? Let me guess – your going to attribute that to mysterious ways?

As to your “modern theological rumor� that Paul was gay? Well, thanks for that input! Based on what? His writings? Like, I Cor. 6:9-10, or Rom. 1:24-27, or even Acts 15:29?

Look, jb, many of us wish Jim well.  But if he could just keep it to himself!

by Trochilus

McGreevy working with altar boys. OH MY GOD!!! It's like an alchoholic becoming a bartender!

Huh . . . so I see!

Every major newspaper in the State, and several out of State (e.g., the NY Post), took up the Star-Ledger's lead and published a follow-up story about it, most of them right up on page one. Writers were falling all over one another trying to coin the best header. 

Yep, quite an astute observation there, jb!

My point was and is that the guy seemingly can't help himself -- he just keeps finding ways to get his name in the press. And I am sure I am not alone in predicting that no doubt that he will continue to do so, by finding new ways to weasel his way into print. This won't be the end, as your comment suggests.

And it doesn't seem to matter whether it is good publicity or not, nor does it matter who he uses to seek the publicity.

But don't just take my word for it. Here was a comment posted on the BlueJersey website version of the story, posted there by commenter, EWO:

As you say, he has never come clean about the real reasons for his downfall. Given that fact, as well as ongoing revelations that are coming out of his messy divorce and his wife's book, it is hard not to wonder whether this is just another manipulative and fundamentally dishonest display having more to do with rehabilitating his image before the the public than his relationship with his Maker. Only God, of course, knows his heart -- and there is plenty of reason to suspect that McGreevey himself doesn't understand his own motivations. But given the raised eyebrows over his teaching an ethics course at Kean College, he ought to at least understand the awkward position he puts his newly adopted Church in. I don't fault the church/seminary leaders for accepting him into the program, and perhaps the lengthy process will clarify the issues all around. But his willingness to involve his new Church in the public controversies raging around him leads me to suspect that it's still all about Jim McGreevey.

Does that make me too judgemental?

By the way, for what it's worth, I do not believe it makes you too judgmental, EWO.  Good sound judgment is a very good thing in my book.  Now, I suspect that I might disagree with EWO on a whole host of other topics.  But, on this one, I simply could not put it better myself.

by Trochilus

Another typical low-life Democrat.