Good point.
But it would be nice to hear from some non pro-gay marriage Episcopalians and Methodists too.
Although remembering that not long ago the three Boston-area Episcopal Bishops got all dressed up in their red stuff and paraded around in front of the Israeli consulate to protest Israel's nastiness in putting up a wall to keep Palestinian suicide bombers out of weddings and Passover seders, I guess it could be worse. At least they're not marching around our Cathedral.
But, really, the (United Methodist) Boston University School of Theology Magazine recently featured a long article, complete with pictures, by one of the professors who had represented the UMC at Pope Benedict XVI's "Mass for the Beginning of the Petrine Ministry of the Bishop of Rome" (the Vatican has even made the title of the pope's installation ecumenically-friendly and "sensitive") and who detailed the royal treatment SHE received as the official representative of the United Methodist Church.
Wouldn't it be nice to hear from some of these people that they actually AGREE with the Catholic Church on this issue and not with their own ministers who are in violation of their Church's official teaching.
I mean, both Shaw and the UMC pastor quoted in the article are in violation of the discipline and doctrine of their own Churches on thi subject, aren't they?
I guess the anti-ecumenical people were right all along: it is just "lets dress up and play church" for these folks. When it comes to any real doctrine, it's "all may, some do, none must."
Or, as the British comic Alan Bennett said in his novel "The Laying-On Of Hands" describing an Anglo-Catholic priest in cassock and biretta who liked to be called "Father":
"His interest in Roman Catholicism was chiefly sartorial."
I had to chuckle, I believe the UCC Minister at Marsh Chapel at BU wears a Cassock.
The usual even-handed rules, I see: The conservatives are religious, so they're not allowed to campaign; the liberals are-- er -- religious, so they are.
What the homosexual lobby is afraid of, is that people will actually discuss this on the basis of the public policy interests, on the merits, on the impact re the Common Good. And the Catholic (broadly, "catholic") tradition has been really, really good at presenting such issues on the basis of Natural Law. If anybody's listening.