Bishop Marc Handley Andrus of the Episcopal Diocese of California was arrested December 7 for blocking the front door of the San Francisco federal building to protest the deaths caused by the Iraq war.
Andrus, carrying his crozier and singing "Down by the Riverside,'' was among 250 protesters, including members of the Episcopal Peace Fellowship and people of other faiths, who had marched from Grace Cathedral, on Nob Hill, to join the weekly "die-in" at on Golden Gate Avenue near City Hall.
Mary Francis Schjonberg
I share the anti-war position. It is nice to see prominent Episcopalians will to stand against the war as well.
I don't care for the church involving itself in political and social causes. The church ought not speak on issues of the day as though it speaks for all Episcopalians. Episcopalians are intelligent and open-minded. We can think for ourselves.
Best wishes to Bishop Andrus. I wish we had heard more from him when we were bombing Serbia under Bill Clinton. But that would have been hard. This was easy - all too easy.
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