ECUSA

The House of Bishops of the Episcopal Church in America are to make a statement to the church at large regarding a great many things, all of them geared toward stablilizing the communion and the church at large, in the face of demands by a good many more conservative churches and dioceses in the Anglican church at large. The largest of these is the church in Nigeria, where the state of human rights is so deplorable, it seems laughable to me to even address their concerns until they clean their own house.

The catch=22 of Christianity toward the GLBT community is both intolerable and unsustainable. It makes no sense to promote monogamy on the one hand and make it impossible for people desiring that state to have no acknowledgment or blessing for those unions. I get taht the real controversy behind Gene Robinson's confirmation lies there, cart before the horse, and in general the church acknowledges that's the problem as well. To then demand that the church abstain from codifying those blessings, and to refrain from confirming Gay and Lesbian priests in monogamous relationships, without those blessings is the worst kind of political maneuvering.

I get that maintaining the communion is important. But I'm well past the point where I think that maintaining it at any cost is neither what Christ has extolled us to do, nor waht reasonable people should be willing to do.