General Convention: culture clash

Over the last 24 hours, the House of Deputies of the Episcopal Church has conducted a well-designed, extremely respectful and entirely public reconsideration of a controversial piece of legislation: B033. At this hour, the House of Bishops decided to go into executive session tomorrow to discuss the same issue in private. (Corrected from earlier.)

When that discussion concludes, the bishops may move on to consideration of B012, the resolution that permits bishops in states with marriage equality to adapt rites in the Book of Common Prayer for use with gay couples.

Posted by Jim Naughton on July 10, 2009 7:26 PM | |
Comments (3)

Secret session? On something that's been pre-occupying for three years?! Oy, vey!That's not OK.

Posted by SCG [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 10, 2009 10:37 PM

Ah...the arm-twisting gets serious now. And the model of most of the rest of the Anglican Communion--where bishops make decisions without the input of clergy or laity--becomes the new Official Way of Doing Things in TEC.

I predicted this. I am not happy to see that I was correct.

Paige Baker

Posted by paigeb [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 11, 2009 11:27 AM

In private, huh? Where's the transparency in that?

Remember last month, about the deleting of the reference to transparency on the IAmEpiscopalian site?

http://www.episcopalcafe.com/lead/episcopal_church/transparency.html

I thought the excuse given by the TEC media spokesperson was lame.

Posted by dutchfox [TypeKey Profile Page] | July 11, 2009 10:08 PM

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