No Frocking Way! Church: Gay Luv Gov Bland, Needs More "Seasoning"
The Episcopal Church ordains both ladies and convicted murderers ("same dif," says the Catholic Church) in church roles, but they will serve no communion wine before its time, so former New Jersey governor Jim McGreevey, who entered the seminary just back in 2007, has, the Post claims, gotten a "fail" on the pass/fail system of priest ordainment. McGreevey availed himself of all the traditional (and expensive) methods of reputation repair after his tabloid divorce, his "coming out" and some minor disentanglement from Jersey-ism—saying that he was "in recovery," consorting with stuffed animals to coax out his inner child, returning to his love of Jesus in a "nearly passionate" way and he even finally renounced a few of his cronies. Well, just one of them.
I saw McGreevey when at Governor's School during his 2001 campaign. I guess the Episcopal Church didn't like his Darth Vader impression as much as we did.
@keisertroll Ha! I saw him at the Junior Statesman Symposium in 2000 when he was just Woodbridge Mayor and Former Gubernatorial Candidate Jim McGreevey. No impressions, unfortunately. I suppose he was saving that schtick for a campaign year.
@boyofdestiny Also, there was a story about him at Boys State telling some smartass to shut the hell up.
We've had so many bad governors since him, I almost forgot about good ol' Jim McGreevey.
I live so close to Camden I barely notice when our governors are horrible.
Shorter Episcopal church: You can't be a priest because you're kind of an asshole, but, yes, we will take your money.
The guy does sound like an asshole, actually. A self-pitying, thoroughly un-recovered jackass, at least judging by that passage from his memoir.
I don't really know anything about the guy, but getting rejected as a candidate for the priesthood is pretty routine for a lot of denominations. They really, really want to be sure both you and the church are comfortable with the arrangement, as it's meant to be a lifetime kind of thing.