Althouse passes along that the Episcopal Church is refusing to help resettle Afrikaaners now classified as refugees. There is a political angle that is an unmentioned part of the obvious liberal bias of that denomination. Google AI summarises
The average age of an Episcopalian in the United States is around 58.7 years old. The most likely age of an Episcopalian if randomly selected from membership rolls is 69. This makes the Episcopal Church the oldest of the twenty largest religious traditions in the US, with 55% of members being 60 or older. [1, 2]AI responses may include mistakes.
These people grew up with the idea that South Africa was the real evil empire. It is not really that ECUSA is liberal now as that all these people were liberals 40 years ago and have not updated their priors since then. They believe Nelson Mandela was a man of peace - which he was, compared to his wife, I suppose. What has been happening in the last decades is not known to them, partly because they do not attend to any media sources that would tell them, and partly because of the arrogance of believing they already know more than most people about the situation.
Even what they used to know was one-sided, and now it is barely consonant with reality.
It's a mostly peaceful chant.
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