We never asked Episcopalians to take up our fight. Rather, it seems, their spiritual path has led them to believe that we aren’t any less deserving of ministry or recognition or even consecration simply because we happen to be unpopular sexual minorities. I wish that weren’t an extraordinary concept in 2007, but it is. And Bishop Jefferts Schori has hardly blinked in a year of denominational strife that has seen her character and her commitment to her religious office questioned, challenged, dismissed, and maligned.
Teresa Morrison writing in The Advocate praises the difficult path that the Episcopal Church has taken standing in solidarity with gays and lesbians.
Read it all here.
Fr. Jake comments here
Katie Sherrod comments here.