Fr. David Moyer to be Consecrated as TAC Bishop - Why I'm Not Smiling...

From this post at titusonenine:

"Fr. Moyer is to be consecrated a bishop within the Traditional Anglican Communion (TAC), the largest global Continuing Anglican Church and a body already in communion with FIF-NA and sister groups in England and Australia. Consecrators are expected to include bishops from both the TAC and the “official” Anglican Communion.

After his consecration, slated for February 16, Moyer will exercise episcopal oversight for the military chaplaincies of the Anglican Church in America (ACA), TAC’s American branch (which also includes Central America), and at times assist TAC bishops, who shepherd several hundred thousand adherents in 21 countries. However, he will continue as rector of the prominent Good Shepherd, Rosemont, the status of which will not change. He will also continue as president of FIF-NA, a body which also presently forms a non-geographical convocation within the conservative Anglican Communion Network within the U.S. Episcopal Church (ECUSA)."

I am a member of Forward in Faith, and I have to admit to you that I have never been able to see the logic in this bogus proposal. Moyer will be a Bishop of a continuing church, while at the same time rector of Good Shepherd, Rosemont. How can he be both? Granted, the TAC is quite large for a continuing body. But, the problem is that this absolutely kills any affiliation which FiFNA has with the Network. When its president becomes a continuing bishop, things have gone terribly wrong for Anglicans who hold the faith of the undivided Church in the US and hope to remain in unity with worldwide Anglicanism. The thing is, we already have bishops who are working within the existing structures. It doesn't help that we have hotheads running around who are the presidents of antiquarian curmudgeon societies like FiFNA. I'm further not one to buy the rationale which says "We've been beaten down for so long, thank God someone is taking a stand!" The way of the Cross is in absolute self-denial and suffering, and we ought to get used to it. If we think any of this will be easy, if we think we ought to retain our places of privilege, then we ought to forget proclamation of the Gospel in this day and age. Anglo-Catholics in this country have been suffering since the beginning from "have my cake and eat it too! syndrome." Is our ecclesiology truly so poor that we can deal with this sort of behavior? It is childish. Those who are mature have no need for this garbage. Quite honestly, if the situation in the US for traditional Anglicans has gotten so bad, then these people should get it over with and go to Rome or Orthodoxy. In fact, it's a great idea if you're not up for the sort of suffering which we will be enduring in years to come.