Chicago's new Episcopal bishop, national leader speak up for gay clergy

[davidinalameda]

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-episcopal_04feb04,1,2005302.story

Chicago's new Episcopal bishop and the church's national leader sent a clear message Sunday about where they stand on gay clergy, a smoldering issue that threatens to tear apart the denomination.

Wrapping up a five-day tour in honor of Jeffrey Lee, the new Chicago bishop, Katharine Jefferts Schori declared that the American church will not stand alone in its support of gay clergy during an international meeting in July in Lambeth, England.

"Many more than you might expect are sympathetic," Jefferts Schori, the presiding Episcopal bishop, told parishioners at St. Nicholas Church in Elk Grove Village. "They are not, however, the loudest voices."

[TechBear_Seattle]

1. So they are finally willing to move beyond the "let's discuss this for yet another five years"?

Call me Doubting Thomas: I will believe it when I see it.

[xchrom]

2. take a stand! chart a new course -- schori you have to know

the church will survive and change if embraced will be good.

the schism doesn't have to be the end of anything -- it can be a brilliant new beginning.