Episcopal Church group rejects curb on gay bishops

[kwassa]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001054_pf.html

Episcopal Church group rejects curb on gay bishops

Reuters
Tuesday, June 20, 2006; 5:24 PM
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/20/AR2006062001054_pf.html


CHICAGO (Reuters) - A proposal for the U.S. Episcopal Church to impose an unofficial moratorium on ordaining more openly gay bishops was rejected on Tuesday in a vote that could further roil relations with fellow Anglicans worldwide.

The issue is not completely dead since the triennial convention of the 2.3-million-member U.S. church will not close until Wednesday evening and the issue could be revived.

But the rejection by one of two legislative policy-making houses meeting in Columbus, Ohio, makes it less likely that the church will impose a moratorium on future gay bishops as the Anglican church spiritual leadership had suggested.

The Anglican Communion, as the global church is known, has been in turmoil for three years since the last such convention of the U.S. church approved the consecration of Gene Robinson of New Hampshire, the first bishop known to be in an openly gay relationship in more than 450 years of Anglican history.

[RevCheesehead]

1. Good for them.

I guess the ultimate question is, do you want a bishop who fits certain criteria, or do you want the one God is calling? Episcopalians, I am so very proud of you, and hope that some day, the Methodists will open their eyes.

[pelagius]

2. The Presbyterian Church USA also...

...also voted today to allow the ordination of GLBT people called to ministry. I feel like the dam is breaking!

[RevCheesehead]

3. I saw that post in LBN....

Hooray! People are opening their minds!

[Critters2]

4. They're going to move to something similar to what the UCC

has always had. Presbyteries will make their own decisions as to who is ordainable and who isn't. This is how we've kept peace (relatively) in the UCC. It's a wise decision.