Like so many children, Jim McGreevey started school yesterday. The former NJ Governor and gay American sauntered into Chelsea's Theological Seminary to study the "good word".
The former Catholic became an Episcopalian earlier this year. He's got one year grace period before he can enter the clergy, according to NYDN.
Always one for the spotlight, McGreevey apparently avoided reporters yesterday, saying: "I'm trying to be respectful of the seminary and their culture. They're really low key." And, of course, soon-to-be ex-wife Dina Matos McGreevey offered a jab: "I certainly wouldn't look to him for guidance or advice."
Nor would we…
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While I'm not saying it will never happen, and maybe it should, who am I to say, but, it is inaccurate to say that McGreevey has "one year" before he can choose to enter the clergy in The Episcopal Church. While in some denominations, an individual can decide they want to be a pastor, get the degree, or not, get ordained and then a job, it does not work that way in TEC.
First, McGreevey would have to wait until his parish would create a "Discernment" committee, and they wouldn't likely do that right away since he's new to their parish and TEC. The input of other TEC clergy is part of the process. If approved by the committee, the individual would become a "postulant" and continue the educational process necessary for the priesthood.
The one year reference in your story is the year that a "non-degree" enrollee has before they must chose a course of study in the seminary. There are options other than priesthood.
But even if McGreevey goes through those steps and becomes a piest, why not? If we sit around a wait for only the perfect to become priests, there would be no priests, which, of course, is not necessarily a bad thing. However, many Episcopal priests enter the priesthood at mid-life, after learning a significant life lesson or two, and that's not necessarily a bad thing either.
He is such a freak!