SCHADENFREUDE

Dearest Katharine Jefferts Schori and David Booth Beers.  To paraphrase Jesus of Nazareth, anyone who takes up the courts may perish by the courts.  The Episcopal Organization takes one in the nads: Today the Texas Supreme Court handed down decisions in the two ECUSA cases pending before it: No. 11-0265, Episcopal Diocese of Fort Worth, et al. v. The Episcopal Church, et al.; and No. 11-0332, Masterson v. Diocese of Northwest Texas. In the first case, the Court sided with Bishop Iker’s...