Ouchers.
Back in the day, Rep. Bobby Jindal felt similarly. To him, the Episcopalian option appeared less fulfilling than full- blown Roman Catholicism. Back then, Jindal wrote:
I was not tempted by the expedient path of ignoring difficult teachings, and there was no reason to swallow Rome’s demanding morality if her authority were less than divinely inspired. After all, if I wanted the aesthetics without the inconvenient morality I could become Episcopalian.
Double ouchers.
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Also, speaking of Jindal and Church, I found this episode appalling:
Jindal was seen on Ash Wednesday last year at St. Peter's Catholic Church spending a "great deal of time on his BlackBerry during service and prayer, both reading e-mails and sending e-mails." Jindal responded through his spokesman: "The Congressman was on his BlackBerry to staff asking that meetings be pushed back because the service was running long. He didn't want to leave."
Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but if someone was clicking away on a Blackberry during church prayers... I'd politely tell him or her to please excuse themselves and finish their important worldly business in a side room. And if the response was "I'm asking my staff to push back meetings because the service is running long", then I would say: "I don't care if you're emailing the Pope. Please stop or take it outside."
I suppose Jindal's Ash Wednesday rudeness is preferable to the game of "grab ass" that President Bush played in Church the previous year. Of course, Bush was attending an Episcopal church when he patted Laura's rear-end on Ash Wednesday. And perhaps Bush can be excused for this because, as Jindal informs us, Episcopalians are unable to "swallow Rome's demanding morality".
