A Late April Fool's Joke?

Are you kidding me? Disgraced former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey, who's currently engaged in a divorce proceeding and has outed himself as a 'gay American' to cover up his corrupt and reckless disregard for the security of the state in pushing an unqualified non-citizen (and supposed lover) to be Homeland Security Director, now wants to be an Episcopal priest.

Former Gov. James E. McGreevey has started the process to become a priest in his newly adopted Episcopal faith and hopes to begin a three-year seminary program in the fall.

McGreevey, who often described himself as a devout Catholic while in public office, was officially received into the Episcopal religion on Sunday, at St. Bartholomew's Church in Manhattan, and is now part of the church's "discernment" phase that usually precedes any seminary work, said the Rev. Kevin Bean, vicar at St. Bartholomew.

"This process that he's in right now, is not going to be some snap of the finger, overnight process. That will not happen. That's not how it works. He knows that," Bean said. "And so at the parish level, and at the diocesan level, everyone knows that this is a process that ... intentionally is deliberate. You don't enter into it unadviseably."


McGreevey has already applied to the renowned General Theological Seminary in Manhattan and is awaiting word of whether he has been accepted to the program there, according to two people familiar with McGreevey's plans, who declined to be identified because McGreevey has not formally announced his plans.

He's already coming under fire for being picked up to teach ethics at Kean University despite his sheer and utter lack of ethics while on the job. Now, he thinks that becoming a priest is the thing to do?

If he's reformed and has found God, more power to him. However, I see him more as a snake oil salesman than a man of God.