It's not a surprise, but the HOD passed D025. Here is the text of the current version. The "straw poll" report to me was that it is 2:1 in both orders of the HOD.
Regardless of what some people wish to think, the passage of D025 is clearly a renunciation and nullification of B033. The laity has spoken.
However, this will be very hard sell in the HOB. The bishops will explain their "no" votes many ways but it will still mean the same thing -they value tea and biscuits far more than they value their diocesan flock.
UPDATE: Fr. Terry Martin reports on the passage here.
UPDATE II: Jim Naughton reports that the vote was 77-31 in the lay order and 74-35 in the clerical order.
For those who are "non-link-clickers" here it is:
Regardless of what some people wish to think, the passage of D025 is clearly a renunciation and nullification of B033. The laity has spoken.
However, this will be very hard sell in the HOB. The bishops will explain their "no" votes many ways but it will still mean the same thing -they value tea and biscuits far more than they value their diocesan flock.
UPDATE: Fr. Terry Martin reports on the passage here.
UPDATE II: Jim Naughton reports that the vote was 77-31 in the lay order and 74-35 in the clerical order.
For those who are "non-link-clickers" here it is:
- Resolution: D025
Title: Commitment and Witness to Anglican Communion
Topic: Anglican Communion
Committee: 08 - World Mission
House of Initial Action: Deputies
Proposer: Ms. D. Rebecca Snow
Resolved, the House of Bishops concurring, That the 76th General Convention reaffirm the continued participation of The Episcopal Church in the Anglican Communion; give thanks for the work of the bishops at the Lambeth Conference of 2008; reaffirm the abiding commitment of The Episcopal Church to the fellowship of churches that constitute the Anglican Communion and seek to live into the highest degree of communion possible; and be it further
Resolved, That the 76th General Convention encourage dioceses, congregations, and members of The Episcopal Church to participate to the fullest extent possible in the many instruments, networks and relationships of the Anglican Communion; and be it further
Resolved, That the 76th General Convention reaffirm its financial commitment to the Anglican Communion and pledge to participate fully in the Inter-Anglican Budget; and be it further
Resolved, That the 76th General Convention affirm the value of "listening to the experience of homosexual persons," as called for by the Lambeth Conferences of 1978, 1988, and 1998, and acknowledge that through our own listening the General Convention has come to recognize that the baptized membership of The Episcopal Church includes same-sex couples living in lifelong committed relationships "characterized by fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection and respect, careful, honest communication, and the holy love which enables those in such relationships to see in each other the image of God" (2000-D039); and be it further
Resolved, That the 76th General Convention recognize that gay and lesbian persons who are part of such relationships have responded to God's call and have exercised various ministries in and on behalf of God's One, Holy, Catholic and Apostolic Church and are currently doing so in our midst; and be it further
Resolved, That the 76th General Convention affirm that God has called and may call such individuals to any ordained ministry in The Episcopal Church, which call through our discernment processes acting in accordance with the Constitution and Canons of The Episcopal Church; and be it further
Resolved, That the 76th General Convention acknowledge that members of The Episcopal Church, as of the Anglican Communion, based on careful study of the Holy Scriptures, and in light of tradition and reason, are not of one mind, and Christians of good conscience,disagree about some of these matters.
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