Trousered Ape

An exercise in presumption.

Tuesday, November 21, 2006

I spotted this at Midwest Conservative Journal, but it’s getting play elsewhere as well:

Excerpt from an interview with Katherine Jefferts Schori, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church:

How many members of the Episcopal Church are there in this country?

About 2.2 million. It used to be larger percentagewise, but Episcopalians tend to be better-educated and tend to reproduce at lower rates than some other denominations. Roman Catholics and Mormons both have theological reasons for producing lots of children.

Episcopalians aren’t interested in replenishing their ranks by having children?

No. It’s probably the opposite. We encourage people to pay attention to the stewardship of the earth and not use more than their portion.

To which I say:

Bishop Bo-Peep has lost her sheep,
And doesn’t know where to find them,
For, in their pride, when they up and died,
They left no children behind them.

Bishop Bo-Peep holds offspring cheap,
Compared with a good education.
Those with PhDs, or other degrees,
Are too smart to engage in gestation.

Bishop Bo-Peep would gladly sweep
Mankind off the face of the Earth,
For they who aspire to the favor of Gaea
Must oblige her by not giving birth.

Bishop Bo-Peep may someday reap
The harvest of seed never sown,
When she starts an oration to her congregation
And finds that she’s preaching to no one.

Bishop Bo-Peep will start to weep
And utter laments and complaints,
As the Catholics, unheeding, continue their breeding,
And so do the Latter Day Saints.

Bishop Bo-Peep has thoughts so deep,
We hope she will somehow find time
To tell us how men can be born again,
When being born once is a crime.

Posted by Bob the Ape 10:25 PM