Speaking to about 75 deputies and visitors to General Convention at an event sponsored by the Consultation, an association of progressive church-related advocacy groups, Bishop Robinson spoke to the issue of whether “LGBT Equality is a Matter of Justice?”
Answering in the affirmative, Bishop Robinson urged the deputies to follow their consciences and disavow 2006 General Convention Resolution B033 that pledged that the Episcopal Church would refrain from consecrating gay bishops or authorize public rites for the blessing of same-sex unions.
Bishop Robinson predicted that the 2009 Convention “will be one of those conventions, like 1976 and 2003, where history is made.” He urged his audience to watch how their diocesan deputies and bishops voted and see that they “stand up for what is right.”
Read it all. I am going to try to leave comments open on this thread for now but ask people to stay on topic and remain civil and respectful. Thank you.
Update: Well, alas, that didn’t work. So I now will take comments on this submitted by email only to at KSHarmon[at]mindspring[dot]com.
I am most intrigued by “the church of the people of color”. What is the percentage of TEC membership that’s non-white?
I do know of black and hispanic parishes (the latter experiencing dramatic growth in the southwest), but the Episcopal parish down the street seems to be all white.