Deut. 7:9 "Know therefore that the LORD your God is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand generations of those who love him and keep his commands."

Psalm. 103:17 "But from everlasting to everlasting the LORD's love is with those who fear him, and his righteousness with their children's children - 18 with those who keep his covenant and remember to obey his precepts."

What does God Say we SHOULD NOT do?

"We would prefer to find some way other than this deepening battle, but we refuse to allow this recent aggression to go unchecked or unchallenged," the nine wrote in a letter to the bishop and the Standing Committee. (Last week Smith sent in a Diocesan SWAT team, confiscating the church, changing the locks on the church doors, firing the priest, breaking into his computer and installing a priest-in-charge without vestry consent.)

Then he ripped Smith saying, "There seems to be solid historical grounds for declaring the office of Bishop of Connecticut vacant."

The Rt. Rev. John H. Rodgers, a bishop in the Anglican Mission in America and former Dean of Trinity Episcopal School for Ministry also wrote VirtueOnline saying that the changing of locks and a consequent lockout of the congregation and Fr. Hansen was "bizarre" asking "what in the world is the man thinking?"

The Anglo-Catholic bishop ripped into Smith saying, "Any canonist worthy of the name knows that you have deliberately misused Canon IV.10 in order to attack someone who upholds the Catholic Faith in a manner deliberately designed to deny him any hearing or trial. You grieve the heart of Our Blessed Lord. However, I fear your own actions demonstrate any inability to see what you have done wrong, or to bring you to the repentance your soul so desperately needs to save you from spiritual death.