“God is NOT Mother!”

“My God is Mother” Billboard Incenses Orthodox Episcopal Clergy

By David W. Virtue

DETROIT, MI (3/20/2006)– A billboard erected by the Episcopal Diocese of Michigan which read; “My God is Mother” and “I am an Episcopalian” with a picture of a woman reading a bible, and the diocesan website address, so incensed a group of orthodox clergy that the diocese was forced to bring it down.

The billboard, by its appearance and content so outraged Fr. Steven J. Kelly, SSC, rector of St. John’s that he contacted diocesan headquarters and complained bitterly to the bishop. “God is NOT mother!” he told Bishop Wendell N. Gibbs Jr.

A number of other priests also objected to the billboard, and so the bishop and his staff decided, on reflection to tear it down. Wrote Fr. Kelly, “The billboard is coming down ASAP as per Bishop Gibbs request to his communications director” …

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Heh heh. I went to seminary with Fr Kelly — just heard from him recently. May God give him strength.