This just in from a colleague in the Diocese of California: "CA Diocesan Convention OK's Same Gender Blessing Rites by an overwhelming margin -- details to follow ..."
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So here's the deal: unless amended, the Dio CA resolution read:
RESOLVED, that this 158th Convention of the Episcopal Diocese of California commend to the Bishop of California the lectionary, rubric entitled “Concerning the Service,” and three rites endorsed by the Commission on Marriage and Blessing, and urge the Bishop to approve the trial use of these forms as resources in the Dioceseof California for formalizing the blessing of same-gender unions.
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Add that to the Diocese of Connecticut reported to be the 10th diocese rejecting B033 by resolution of Diocesan Convention and the favorable votes on blessings in both Montreal and Ottawa and it's looking more and more like we actually HAVE decided to follow Jesus ... no turning back, no turning back!
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7AM Sunday Morning UPDATE: So I posted this last night and then ran off to post-wedding festivities with our friends Jerry & Bruno ... there's updated information now on the wording of the TWO resolutions that were passed (thanks Sarah for the heads up!) over at John Kirkley's blog and reactions from the usual suspects here and here. And now, off to church!
Susan, both the resolutions you mention were adopted without amendments. We also passed a justice resolution on immigration. A good convention.
ReplyDelete(On an arguably more frivolous topic, just saw former Dodger JD Drew hit a grand slam for the Red Sox in do-or-die Game 6 of ALCS. Go Sox!)
Just noticed you didn't actually mention our other LGBT-related resolution, which was a response to the House of Bishops' statement from September.
ReplyDeleteJohn Kirkley said that the resolution was not amended.
ReplyDeleteHe's got the text of the resolution in response to the bishops here.
Alleluia!
ReplyDeleteThis is fantastic news! Thank you for sharing it.
ReplyDeleteTHANKS BE TO GOD!!!
ReplyDeleteBRAVO
BRAVO
joe
"Theres No Stopping Us Nnow", were moving on//
ReplyDelete"They will Know We Are Christians By Our Love"..."Oh Freedom".........."God's Trying To Tell You Something"
Gracias El Senor y Jesu Christo, En El Spiritu.......
Via Con Dios, mi amigas, mi amigos, y mi hermanos en mi hermanas in Jesu Christo...
Peace, "Let Freedom Ring"
Joe
You know I love my diocese!!
ReplyDeleteI'll never forget a few years ago a lesbian friend of mine who lives in rural Georgia told me how proud she was of me for living my life so "out and in the open." I told her that it was just the reverse, in San Francisco it's EASY to live a normal life and by contrast it's much, much, much harder for LGBT folk to do that in a small town in the south.
Still, yesterday's actions in the diocesan convention remind me that we can't take our freedom for granted and just live on a little fantasy island in the Bay. We need to stand up and smile and sing and laugh and invite the Anglican world into the fullness of Christ's love, so that my friend in Georgia can know that there IS a way it can be done.
Yay!
Thank God we are moving faster to disunion with Anglicanism. It's being run by bullies. GO CALIFORNIA !
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