Bishop Kee Sloan, head of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama, voted in favor of a new ritual of blessing for same-sex unions that the Episcopal Church approved during its 2012 General Convention.
At the time, he said he wouldn’t allow blessings of same-sex unions in Alabama churches. It was too divisive and the state wasn’t ready, he said. Now, Alabama is ready, he said. “I just needed to wait for the right time,” Sloan told AL.com.
“This is not marriage, and has nothing to do with the federal judge in Mobile or the Supreme Court,” Sloan said. “This is blessing a same-sex union.”
Bp. Sloan is reliably divorced from any appearance of Christianity.
Apart from that – how openly patronizing. Bp. Sloan (the enlightened) has determined that now is the ‘right time’ for Episcopalians in Alabama. He sounds a exactly like the activist judges involved.
The illuminati have spoken. You in Alabama should just hush up and thank your betters for their great wisdom.
The bishop incorrectly says that resolutions to amend the canons like the one apparently intended for I.18.2, to replace the words “a man and a woman” with the words “two persons” require passage by successive Conventions. He’s thinking of amendments to the Constitution.