But will conservative Episcopalians still be around to debate them?
The diocese of South Carolina’s delegation left the General Convention in protest on Wednesday.
“Due to the actions of General Convention, the South Carolina deputation has concluded that we cannot continue with business as usual,” the diocese said in a statement. “We all agree that we cannot and will not remain on the floor of the House and act as if all is normal.”
On Tuesday, the Rev. Kendall Harmon, the Diocese of South Carolina’s canon theologian, called the approval of same-sex blessings “unbiblical” and “unseemly.”
[blockquote]On Wednesday, David Brownlie-Marshall, a spokesman for Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, the spiritual leader of the Anglican Communion, said: “The Archbishop is not planning to release a statement at this stage.â€[/blockquote]
Doesn’t that just sum up the problem all the way along?
There is no point to Rowan Williams.
When anything momentous or contentious occurs, he’s absent.
All of this, all, is a direct result of the GC of 1976.
And the approval of the phony 1979 Prayer Book which jettisoned the 39 Articles and created a non-Christian baptismal rite, among other things.