Utah’s Episcopal representatives joined the majority at this week’s Episcopal General Convention in backing a measure to allow individual dioceses the option of choosing a gay or lesbian bishop.
“We want everything in our church to be open to all people,” Bishop Carolyn Tanner Irish said in a phone interview from Anaheim, Calif., where she was attending the church’s once-every-three-years legislative assembly. “Our diocese has always been progressive on social issues, mainly because the state is so conservative.”
Well, as the article shows, she know all the buzz words.
A priest I met in Provo in 1997 (when I was doing dissertation research) told me that the “prophet complex” among mainline Protestant denominations in Utah was very strong. Both Franklin Spencer Spalding (Episcopal bishop from 1905 to 1914) and Paul Jones (Episcopal bishop from 1914 to 1918) were vocal Christian Socialists. Jones was forced to resign because of his pacifist views and never held a permanent diocesan appointment again, although his seat in the House of Bishops was restored (without vote) in 1933.
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