Renegade Episcopal Priest: Come and Get Me
March 10, 2009 –
Just days after the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania asked a civil court for his removal, renegade priest David Moyer issued a defiant message to the organization: Come and get me. “You want me, you know where I am,” rasped the unshaven reverend, chewing a cigar in his dimly-lit rectory at Rosemont’s Church of the Good Shepherd. “You want to take me down? Bring plenty of extra men.”
 The renegade pastor, whose conservative stance on women and gays, and his ruthless vigilantism, have angered the diocese, exuded a cool calm in the face of his possible ouster. “They want me out, but I won’t go quietly,” he warned, casually pulling aside his vestment to reveal a loaded shotgun. “Eye for an eye, my friend. Look it up—it’s in the Bible.” But what of his 2002 defrocking by the Episcopal Church—since upheld by Montgomery County Court? “Defrock me?” he chuckled, expertly flipping playing cards into a battered Stetson near his desk. “I’ll de-head you.”
Diocesan Chancellor Edward Rehill, meanwhile, was exasperated by Moyer’s stonewalling. “He has no legal footing on this issue, and we will have him out,” he blubbered, cowering behind a tree near the Good Shepherd property. “Damn you, Moyer! Damn you to hell!” The renegade, meanwhile, was amused by such weak-willed displays. “The only way I’m leaving is in a pine box,” he said, peering with narrowed eyes through a side window. He took a slug of rye from a communion glass, then reached for his firearm. “You tell that Rehill I’m coming for him. And hell’s coming with me.”
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