The unaddressed question is why white mainline Protestants do not support torture. Indeed, approximately twice as many mainline Protestants (31%) believe that torture is never justified and an additional 22% think it is almost always wrong. Their attitude toward torture is nearly opposite of evangelical Protestant opinion.
Canon Michael Marrett, a hospital chaplain and pillar of strength for years at the National Rehabilitation Hospital in Northwest, suffered a reversal of fortune last summer when he had a stroke and became a patient at the very hospital in which he worked.
“Holy cow, the sky hasn’t fallen.” That assessment of five years of same-sex marriage came from Jennifer Chrisler, who advocates for gay and lesbian parents as head of the Boston-based Family Equality Council. It’s a common refrain from many like-minded activists.
ENS reports: The Very Rev. John Tarrant was elected on May 9 to serve as bishop coadjutor (bishop with right of succession) of the Diocese
Updated Saturday morning: The controversy centers on two clauses that refer Section 4 of the Covenant to a small working group appointed by the Archbishop of Canterbury for further study. The working group is expected to take six to nine months to do its work. The proposed covenant will not be sent to the provinces until after Section 4 has been reconsidered.
This item has been superseded by the item Confusion reigns over Covenant at ACC meeting.
The Anglican Consultative Council has embraced the Report of the Windsor Continuation Group. An effort to include a moratorium that would have forbidden the Episcopal Church from going to court to maintain control of its property was defeated, but the moratoria on same-sex blessings and consecration of partnered gay bishops have been approved.
Mad Priest writes: my initial thought is that there must now be a formal coalition between, what I will refer to from now on as, the provinces of Episcopal Anglicanism and a way for all Episcopal christians, even those who do not live in these provinces, to become aligned with and cared for by this new coalition.
Colin Coward of Changing Attitude has had a run-in with two bullies with press credentials at the Anglican Consultative Council meeting in Jamaica. Read his reflections on these encounters.
The lawyer representing St. James, Newport Beach in its lawsuit against the Diocese of Los Angeles is John C. Eastman, dean of the Chapman University School of Law, who recently teemed with the “visiting professor and Bush White House “torture memo” author John Yoo in April to debate two other Chapman law profs in Memorial Hall about presidential power in wartime.