American Episcopal leader Katharine Jefferts Schori may have supported openly gay Bishop Gene Robinson’s ascension back in 2004, but it seems she’s ready to give up the good gay fight. Fresh from her trip to Tanzania, where she and her pious peers debated the role of gays in the broader Anglican Communion, Schori came out to urge her loyal followers to concede to international pressure and end gay ordinations.
To live together in Christian community means each member takes seriously the concerns and needs of other members. If we can lower the emotional reactivity in the midst of this current controversy, we just might be able to find a way to live together.
That doesn’t sound like living together to us. It sounds like a cop-out and a disturbing one, especially because Schori personally believes the church should include gays.
Could it be that Schori’s lost her backbone? It certainly looks that way.
Bill
I am so sad that Katharine decided to go with the bigots. Sad. sad day for the gays who have become a sector that has been put in their place. That is, in the back of the bus.
Cat
Double pain for those of us who left the Catholic Church in favor of the open welcome we received in Episcopal parishes…. I am in particular grief for my parish priest, who is out and openly partnered and one of the finest men I’ve ever met.
I hate to say it, but schism can’t come too soon so we can all get back to thinking about God and not about what other people are doing with their naughty bits.
Jonathon
Gays and lesbians are once again left out in the cold. How sad for those who flocked to the Episcopalian church after Bishop Robinson was ordained. An opportunity lost for greater inclusion and expanded membership, all because of homophobia and bigotry.
While I do respect that many gays and lesbians are “people of faith” and find something in their religion that is meaningful to them, I really can’t understand why any homosexual would remain a member of any organized church or denomination that does not treat them with respect.
At the very least, I would encourage church-going gays to stop giving money to their churches as a means of protest. Better yet, stop going to that church period and (if you must) find another one that actually accepts you just as you are.
Money talks, y’all. Our money is just as green and spends just as easily as straight people’s money, so hit churches where it really hurts. At the same time you’d be denying them resources to work against gay causes. Starve the beast!
audiored
I might get flamed. But, I can’t bring myself to give a f*ck about this kind of thing.
O, gasp! A religion wants to sell someone out and promote hate and discrimination?! That is so out of the ordinary! /sarcasm
Same with the gays in the miliary. Which I’m far more simpathetic to since my young queers end up going into the military for purely economic reasons.
But why the hell are people shocked when institutions whose primary role is to spread destruction, hate and opression, behave in inhumane ways?
Like I care if you want to be part of that or not, but don’t come all up in my face whining when they are mean to you..
john
Now that the women are in, forget the gays?