{"id":75365,"date":"2018-11-20T12:05:40","date_gmt":"2018-11-20T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75365"},"modified":"2018-11-20T17:36:09","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T22:36:09","slug":"latest-developments-in-the-tec-diocese-of-albany-i-a-s-haley-offers-an-analysis-bishop-loves-last-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75365","title":{"rendered":"Latest Developments in the TEC Diocese of Albany (I)&#8211;A. S Haley offers an Analysis: Bishop Love&#8217;s Last Stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter, Bishop Love details seven grounds for his opposition to the directive in that 8th Resolve. For purposes of this post, I summarize them in point-form here, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/albanyepiscopaldiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Pastoral-Letter-Regarding-B012-Nov2018.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">be sure to read the whole thing<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i>First:\u00a0<\/i>B012 contradicts God\u2019s intent for the sacrament of marriage as revealed through Holy Scripture;<\/li>\n<li><i>Second:<\/i>\u00a0B012 is contrary to the 2000-year-old understanding of Christian marriage as still reflected in the rubrics of the BCP, and in the Canons of the Diocese of Albany;<\/li>\n<li><i>Third:<\/i>\u00a0B012 &#8220;is doing a great disservice and injustice to our gay and lesbian Brothers and Sisters in Christ, by leading them to believe that God gives his blessing to the sharing of sexual intimacy within a same-sex relationship, when in fact He has reserved the gift of sexual intimacy for men and women within the confines of marriage between a man and woman&#8221;;<\/li>\n<li><i>Fourth:<\/i>\u00a0B012 encourages Episcopalians to engage in sexual behavior which is expressly forbidden in both the Old and New Testaments;<\/li>\n<li><i>Fifth:<\/i>\u00a0By its false teaching and encouragement to sinful behavior, B012 is leading same-sex couples, as well as ECUSA itself, to come under God&#8217;s judgment (resulting in the precipitous decline in membership throughout the Church);<\/li>\n<li><i>Sixth:<\/i>\u00a0B012 attempts to force Bishop Love to violate his ordination vows, as stated above, and would lead to schism and departures in his Diocese; and<\/li>\n<li><i>Seventh:<\/i>\u00a0Succumbing to B012&#8217;s directive would render it impossible for Bishop Love to represent his diocese before the wider Anglican Communion and the whole world.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There is much more in the letter, including assurances to same-sex couples that scripture does not forbid close friendships or living together, only sexual intimacy (citing\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/albanyepiscopaldiocese.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Homosexuality-The-Bible-and-the-Anglican-Crisis-Bp-LeMarquand.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this article<\/a>; see also the other resources linked\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/albanyepiscopaldiocese.org\/marriage-b012-commentary\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on this page<\/a>). As a consequence of the seven factors he identifies, Bishop Love closes his letter with this Pastoral Directive:<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 8\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<blockquote class=\"tr_bq\"><p><b>Until further notice, the trial rites authorized by Resolution B012 of the 79th\u00a0General Convention of the Episcopal Church shall not be used anywhere in the Diocese of Albany by diocesan clergy (canonically resident or licensed), and Diocesan Canon 16 shall be fully complied with by all diocesan clergy and parishes.<\/b><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>Thus the lines are drawn, and the conflict caused by the actions of General Convention now invades the hitherto peaceful diocese of Albany. For instance, could Presiding Bishop Michael Curry now try to exercise his supposed authority to issue a &#8220;Pastoral Directive&#8221; to Bishop Love, requiring that he make the trial rites available to any in his diocese that request them? (Note that Resolution B012&#8217;s mandate does not take effect Churchwide until December 1.)<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>As I pointed out\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/accurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2010\/10\/part-iii-of-constitutional-crisis-in.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">in this earlier post<\/a>, it is extremely doubtful that the enactment of the provision in Title IV that purports to confer upon the Presiding Bishop metropolitan authority over his episcopal colleagues can be squared with the grant of all ecclesiastical authority, by Article II.3 of ECUSA&#8217;s Constitution, to a bishop within his own diocese.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/accurmudgeon.blogspot.com\/2018\/11\/loves-last-stand.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his letter, Bishop Love details seven grounds for his opposition to the directive in that 8th Resolve. For purposes of this post, I summarize them in point-form here, but\u00a0be sure to read the whole thing: First:\u00a0B012 contradicts God\u2019s intent<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=75365\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36,576,175,172,168,378,98,177,112,79,372,371,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-episcopal","category-civil-unions-partnerships","category-anthropology","category-ecclesiology","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-general-convention","category-marriage-family","category-pastoral-theology","category-sexuality","category-sexuality-debate-in-anglican-communion","category-tec-bishops","category-tec-polity-canons","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75365"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75369,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75365\/revisions\/75369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}