Sort of a shame that the bishop and his fellows didn’t accuse that woman of heresy and convene an ecclesiastical trial. Its about time the fat hit the fire here.
Trial would be a good idea, but I’m not sure there’s a proper venue for that anymore in ECUSA—most of the hierarchy involved would be on her side, wouldn’t they?
This entire crisis of the last four years isn’t about homosexuals being welcomed in ECUSA — they already were in large numbers. And it isn’t about conservative or orthodox members being “forced” to welcome them and be at the rail of communion with them.
Instead it was about getting rid of othodox or conservative members and clergy and allowing homosexual clergy to indulge themselves openly without censure. It is about substituing enlightement values for Christian virtues.
The bishops had known from prior years of the possible train wreck. They avoided it by knowingly brushing such issues under the rug. The clergy at large (leftist in majority) wanted their brothers and sisters to have liscense (they called it liberty) and drug the largely leftist layity representatives along the enlightenment path.
What they didn’t expect was a few bishops and a significant number of clergy at large to revolt from their enlightenment ideology or for the first homosexual bishop to behave like such an lush and self-centered fool during his election and subsiquently.