I'll start my own club & you can't join!

This is hysterical.

Someone styling himself "President of the Standing Committee of the Episcopal Diocese of Pittsburgh":

On Wednesday afternoon, I received a phone call from David Wilson, President of the Standing Committee, informing me that in 15 minutes there would be a conference call with the other seven members and that they intended to remove me from the Standing Committee. Two reasons were given. First, I had not accepted my letter of transfer to the Southern Cone. Actually, I had missed the announcement at convention and the letter was never offered to me. When I returned home that evening I found it in the mail having been sent the previous day. The second reason given was that my parish, St. Michael’s, appeared on this web site as having decided to stay in the Episcopal Church. I was not asked to join the conference call and was offered no due process. I do not recognize the authority that purported to take these actions. Providentially at that moment, I was meeting with key leaders of the Diocese of Pittsburgh of the Episcopal Church. After I reported the phone call to those assembled, and with the advice of the Diocesan Chancellor, I immediately appointed two new members to the Standing Committee, which the canons give me the authority to do. This was done at 2:44 P.M. I am pleased to announce that Ms. Mary Roehrich and The Rev. Jeff Murph, who were in attendance at the meeting, immediately accepted those appointments.

So let me get this straight. The Rev.Dr. James B. Simons is kicked off the Standing Committee and he decides that he and he alone is the one true, real, legitimate and only member of the Standing Committee, so he appoints himself president and appoints new members to his "Committee". The two members just happened to be "in attendance" at his clubhouse meeting. I wonder if they met in a treehouse and had a special handshake? This is just beyond satire.