The bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Maryland suspected that Heather Cook — now charged in the drunk-driving death of a Balitmore bicyclist — was suspected of being drunk during her own installation festivities this past fall, a new official timeline shows.
Officials with the diocese, which elected Cook its first female bishop last spring, have said for weeks that they knew before her election of an ugly drunk-driving incident in 2010. However they have declined since to answer questions about whether they had any reason to be concerned about her drinking after she was elected — until the fatal accident in December.
The timeline, which the Diocese of Maryland said Monday it had added to its Web site, says the head of the national Episcopal Church was also made aware that Cook may have been drunk during her own installation celebration. Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schoriwas the leader of the service that consecrated Cook, or made her a bishop, on Sept. 6.
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ReplyDeleteThe long & short is that they were so fixated on having a female to promote and being able to trumpet their progressiveness that they willingly overlooked her prior drunk driving arrest.
And since they all counsel parishioners even the dullest of them should have realized the earlier arrest was a flashing red light of a serious problem.