Certainly different from the views of Bishop Lee ...who the blogs tell us has written to the House:
The General Convention speaks for the Episcopal Church and we bishops understand that resolution as providing an assurance to the wider communion that meets the requests of the Primates' Communique from the Primates' meeting in Tanzania. The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has never authorized the blessing of intimate unions between same sex partners. While the Episcopal Church has, for some forty years, explored the most faithful way of ministering to and with gay and lesbian people who are part of our common life, as a liturgical church, our official actions are expressed in our liturgies and no rite of blessing has ever been adopted by the General Convention.
A little honesty please. Since when do Bishops need permission from the General Convention to have authority over what kind of services take place in their own Diocese? I have three times been called into the Bishop's Office to make the case for the services we hold at our church, and our interpretation of rubric. So I know first hand that the Bishops have this authority. It's dishonest for the Bishops to suggest their hands are tied until asking a layperson from a diocese 800 miles away for their oppinion.
We know such services take place around the country. We know Bishops have authority to authorize whatever services take place within their jurisdictions. It's silly to pretend otherwise, isn't it?
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Certainly different from the views of Bishop Lee ...who the blogs tell us has written to the House:
The General Convention speaks for the Episcopal Church and we bishops understand that resolution as providing an assurance to the wider communion that meets the requests of the Primates' Communique from the Primates' meeting in Tanzania. The General Convention of the Episcopal Church has never authorized the blessing of intimate unions between same sex partners. While the Episcopal Church has, for some forty years, explored the most faithful way of ministering to and with gay and lesbian people who are part of our common life, as a liturgical church, our official actions are expressed in our liturgies and no rite of blessing has ever been adopted by the General Convention.
A little honesty please. Since when do Bishops need permission from the General Convention to have authority over what kind of services take place in their own Diocese? I have three times been called into the Bishop's Office to make the case for the services we hold at our church, and our interpretation of rubric. So I know first hand that the Bishops have this authority. It's dishonest for the Bishops to suggest their hands are tied until asking a layperson from a diocese 800 miles away for their oppinion.
We know such services take place around the country. We know Bishops have authority to authorize whatever services take place within their jurisdictions. It's silly to pretend otherwise, isn't it?
Yes.
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