Vicki Gene is Deeply Saddened.
ping
Well, they have got to pedal their bicycle a LONG way backward before they will get me back. Left the EC in the late '70's when they started getting political and trendy-lefty. This is a step in the right direction, but it is just the first of many...
FYI
Is this a REAL back off.
A full admission it is 100% wrong
OR
is this a "we are just going to appologize for trying this too soon-and-we-will-try-again-in-a-few-years" shell game.
With all the homosexual church commercials these days, these boutique churches seem desperate for an audience.
I wonder if they will back off on divesting from Israel too.
Benedicamus Domino....Deo Gratia!
Late in coming, but I welcome this news.
Time to put your money where your mouth is and remove the gay Bishop. Until they do this, their credibility is nil.
Lutheran Ping, please.
Hard to say what effect this (if true) will have on the ELCA. There has been a tendency to follow the lead of ECUSA but lacking the global backlash of other Lutheran bodies this might embolden the revisionists to become the new "standard bearers".
We will have to wait and see.The local Episcopal diocese here is already seizing property of churches that have not gone along with this. I believe six churches are involved.
Vicki Gene is Deeply Saddened.
I'll believe it when I see it. The National Episcopal Church is notoriously powerless when it comes to controlling the dioceses.
Well good. Maybe I can go back.
When I moved to LA the website of the EC I wanted to join had it's own gay link for the homosexuals in the church. When I moved back to KS, the gays have taken over the EC church I grew up in. Oy.
This is bad news for the orthodox (small "o" orthodox=Evangelical + Anglo-catholic Episcopalians), as it appears the US Bishops will create language and standards which can plausibly sound like "repentance" but which really will just be words, engineered to mollify orthodox bishops around the world...allowing them to unofficially continue the homosexual agenda--very narrowly avoiding schism.
It's the standard liberal incrimentalist tactic: move and wait, move and, if its too far, back off...then wait some more for conservatives to get corrupted...then move again. This issue will continue to plague us for the rest of our lives.
The left is too dominant to back away. This sounds like a ploy that will not be backed up by a real backdown.
It will be windowdressing with the left remaining in power and just shifting their tactics. The split off of churches takes money out of the hands of the leftist leaders and they want to stop the bleeding without treating the cause.
They'll just try to infiltrate and control the non-liberal parishes and dioceses by keeping the institution together so they can slowly complete domination of the denomination.
Repenting until they are stronger is not enough.
They must also RESIGN.
Next on the agenda: Bring back the 1928 Book of Common Prayer
With the likes of Spong who in continuously trying to disprove the basic tenets of Bible, what difference will this make, only way I will ever go back to Episcopal church is wedding or funeral
List?
Comment #26 is very likely true. The leftist program often consists of two steps forward, and if the hoi polloi can't "accept" that yet, one step back. Then repeat.
I would say that they are a little bit late.