Bishop Gene Robinson: “I will not resign.”Well, good on you.

I pray that we may all be one on this issue (oh, don’t look so shocked, it’s in the Prayer Book and everything). It’s interesting how much more conservative the African bishops are, and how naive we liberal Americans were for thinking that everyone else in the Anglican world would be okay with a concept that some of us have struggled to become okay with ourselves. In microcosm, some people still struggle at the local level, but I have hopes that the strugglers can come to terms with their feelings and still be with the rest of us of a Sunday.

I just hope that the larger Anglican church, which I love, figures out how to deal with this issue without splitting apart. Maybe it just takes time for everyone to reach the same conclusion – that in God there is no East or West, North or South… or gay or straight, neither.