This Isn't Going to Help the Episcopalians

The Episcopal Church has been undergoing a series of splits thanks to the issue of gay clergy and gay marriage. This isn't going to help:

The nation's first openly gay governor has become an Episcopalian and been accepted into a seminary, according to a published report.

Former Gov. James E. McGreevey, who was raised as a Roman Catholic, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday at St. Bartholomew's Church in New York, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at the church.

McGreevey has entered the church's "discernment" phase, which usually precedes seminary work, Bean told The Star-Ledger of Newark in a report posted Wednesday on its Web site.

It's unclear whether McGreevey hopes to become a priest.

I've got the opening for his first sermon: "I am a gay American priest".