How General Convention ended: acknowledging the hurt

[mojogeorgo]

By the time I left for work yesterday morning, most of the comments about the turn of events at the end of the General Convention had been "head" comments rather than "heart" comments. In the morning I saw a comment in response to my post from the other night and it conveyed mixed feelings, but had a "maybe this is for the best" approach. Throughout the day today, I noticed that there was a fair amount of argument at Father Jake Stops the World and An Inch at a Time about whether or not the resolution calling upon...

Standing Committees and bishops with jurisdiction to exercise restraint by not consenting to the consecration of any candidate to the episcopate whose manner of life presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead to further strains on communion.

...was a good thing or a bad thing, and if it was reason to feel demoralized.

Okay, that pushes one of my major buttons. Of course there can be rational, logical arguments made both in favor of and against the resolution. But it raises my hackles when anyone tries to tell anyone else how they "should" feel about something. 'Cause I've had people do that to me, and a really don't like it.

I really don't want to get into the "rightness" or "wrongness" of the resolution, or what kind of sense it made strategically, or the importance of maintaining ties with the Anglican Communion. The truth is that real people have been hurt by the decision. I believe that they must be permitted to speak their pain, and we need to hear them.

To my gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered brothers and sisters in Christ, I still don't know what to say, except to tell you that I am grieving with you.



A longer version of this journal entry, with links, is posted at Faithful Ohio
http://faithfulohio.blogspot.com/

[xchrom]

1. what makes it so bitter is the mealy mouthed approach.

gene robinson said it just about best -- i am not an abomination.

well if we are not an abomination, then....

anyway -- i have some thinking to do because from my perspective the hair on fire conservatives won themselves a considerable battle -- if not the war.

i'm sure my priest will put the best spin on this -- but he's straight.

wonderful but straight.