One of the parishes in Virginia that has decided to unaffiliate itself from the Episcopal Church of the USA and align itself with a Nigerian Bishop who advocates
incarcerating homosexuals, is the Truro Parish in Fairfax County, Virginia.
George Washington was a vestryman in the Truro Parish in the 1760's as was George Mason. That this church has chosen to dishonor these men by advocating the discrimination, and incarceration of its fellow citizens based solely upon a genetic characteristic is just astounding.
I realize someone is going to bring up slavery. A close inspection of Washington's views on slavery will reveal a steady growth process, at the end of which Washington had become an opponent of slavery, recognized blacks as having the same intellectual potential as anyone else, and ultimately freed his slaves upon his death, providing for them monetarily.
I do not believe Washington would have been in favor of this type of gratuitious action with the sole purpose of denigrating fellow citizens.
My sense is that both Washington and Mason are rolling in their graves!
George Mason btw was the author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights...ironic eh?