South Carolina Episcopalians today passed a resolution opposing the election of Kevin Genpo Thew Forrester as a bishop in the Episcopal Church.

Forrester accepted Buddhist lay ordination and changed his name to reflect his syncretic spirituality.

He added the middle name “Genpo” — a Japanese word that means “the way, the truth and the life.”

Oops. Wrong religion. “Genpo” means “the way of universal wisdom.”

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