The Episcopal Church’s protestation that it has not ended the ban on gay bishops or blessings has not found support outside its borders.
After strong international reaction against the decisions of the recent General Convention, US Church leaders moved quickly to claim that the Church had not changed its position.
But critics said that this was the inevitable outcome when the Episcopal Church opened the discernment process for new bishops to gay clergy and permitted dioceses to compile and develop rites for the blessings of same-sex unions None of the American church’s allies among the 38 provinces of the Anglican Communion have publicly spoken up in support of Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori’s claims that nothing has changed, while several sharp statements have been released by overseas provinces and dioceses charging that the Episcopal Church had walked away from the Anglican Communion.
On July 18 Bishop Jefferts Schori stated that “in 2009” there are “more and deeper relationships with parts of the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion than five or 10 years ago.”
This, in my own weird way, reminds me of a scene in the 1971 made-for-TV movie “The Night Stalker.” Darren McGavin’s character, Carl Kolchak, wants to publish an article on the vampire who is loose in Las Vegas. His editor, Tony Vincenzo, refuses. Kolchak complains that [i] everyone [/i] knows what going on–law enforcement, TV, other newspapers–everyone except the [i] people [/i] of Las Vegas.
“Finally your getting it!” Vincenzo exclaims. “Because the people of Las Vegas would become unglued if they knew–even more unglued than they’re becoming already, [i] capische?” [/i]
William Shontz
[url=http://theleca.org ]The Lake Erie Confessing Anglican[/url]
[blockquote] After strong international reaction against the decisions of the recent General Convention, US Church leaders moved quickly to claim that the Church had not changed its position.[/blockquote]
I’m going to offer a heterodox view here: I think TGC leaders are being truthful here insofar as B033 wasn’t a moratorium on partnered homosexual bishops. That some reasserters talked themselves into believing that it was is of no matter. D025 didn’t sweep away a ban because no such ban ever existed.
That’s actually [i]capisce[/i], #1, or [i]capisci[/i] if you’re using the second person familiar – according to my Italian verbs book. Both are pronounced as if ‘sc’ were ‘sh’ – the ‘h’ in the Italian spelling would actually make the ‘c’ hard.
But otherwise, interesting comment and probably apt though I haven’t seen the movie. It’s also interesting that the increasing obviousness of the tone-deafness that KJS brought to her supreme position is having to be highlighted through international news media.
#3:
Grazie.
The movie didn’t end well for Kolchak, who, after destroying the vampire and saving the city, got run out of town by the local authorities, who told him, “Because if you breathe one word of this, we’ll find you, bring you back, and put you away for good.”
William Shontz
[url=http://theleca.org ]The Lake Erie Confessing Anglican[/url]