Episcopal leaders: We’re sorry gay bishop caused tension The American Episcopal House of Bishops met in Salt Lake to come up with this message for the rest of the Anglican Communion regarding gay clergy, bishops, marriage, and things gay in general: ”We as the House of Bishops express our sincere regret for the pain, the hurt and the damage caused to our Anglican bonds of affection by certain actions of our church,” the bishops said. ”We express this regret as a sign of our deep desire for and commitment to continuation of our partnership in the Anglican Communion.” I’m an…
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Announcing Innocents: A Blog, a webblog for Holy Innocents Episcopal Church. If you take a look at it, you’ll see that there are static content pages off of the “breadcrumbs” menu, corresponding to pages on the “main” church website. In the next few days, I will gradually be shifting all of the content over from there into Moveable Type (MT). And not using Front Page (MS). Ever again. And yes, I’ve been a-hankering to do this for a while. I’ve decided that the blog part of the site will be integral; categories will be used for blog-like entries for things…
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Ow. For some reason my neck really hurts today. Probably too much time spent unched over, reading webpages. Also, it starts hurting if I try to use my cell phone for a lot of texting, wich is not good because it locked up and had to be swapped out for a new one. Thank goodness for warrantees; but unthank badness for not being able to pull all my phone numbers and snippets of quick text over from old to new. I’ve been working on vacation stuff at last. Should have booked the accomodations back in February when I yapped about…
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BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | NZ recognises same-sex unions Short, simple, and to the point. How refreshing, eh? However, not without controversy. The radical religious fringe chose to send “gifts” to a couple of MPs: a jar of poop and a castration kit. That’s living your faith.
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But when straight people feel the need to flaunt their lifestyle choice in front of God and everybody, I simply have to draw the line! Heterosexuality tends to lead to excessive breeding and higher rates of divorce, neither of which I think ought to be encouraged. Why can’t they just be happy comprising roughly 96% of the population, and leave the rest of us to live our simple lives, unencumbered by the burden of birth control?? Is that so wrong?? (That last line ought to be read in the voice of Harvey Fierstein.) Song: Judy Garland: “You’ll Never Walk Alone”…
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Just wanted to bookmark Episcopal Parish Services‘ site for later. I’m going to be doing something for (shudder) evangelism. I’m going to call it outreach and welcoming, thanks. I’ve got an idea for organizing a monthly or quarterly parish dogwalk, and wondered if Episcopal bandanas are available anywhere…
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Via Salt: a good laugh from The Borowitz Report .com, which report that an openly Episcopal man has joined the Village People. Open schism is possible, although the Construction Guy urged “tolerance and understanding” in a recent statement. Heh. Look for an Anglican chant version of “YMCA” soon. In the meantime, here is the highway report. As it happens, we did a bit of Anglican chant today for our main service – it was the celebration of All Saints’ Day, which was last Monday. We did a version of the Beatitudes set to music by Richard Proulx. By coincidence, my…
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A sampling on this topic: Clack: Georgians Overwhelmingly Approve Of Discrimination ***DDtB: The Morning After The Night Before Josh Claybourn’s Domain | Election 2004: The Unspoken Undercurrent Via ***DDtB, – a cogent argument that it’s all about the morals. And also it’s all about the simplicity, too. Make the message simple, effective, and scary, and you will do well in this country politically. You’ve got two politico-cultural moeities in this country – faith-based and reality-based – and you’ve got to make your message easy for the former to believe, and difficult for the latter to disprove. Which, of course, this…
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Keyes was also asked about another comment he made last week critical of gay marriage in which he declared: “Where procreation is in principle impossible, marriage is irrelevant.” Keyes said the logic of that statement would not preclude elderly people past child-bearing age from getting married. Overshare Alert! Well, in my case “procreation in principle is impossible,” because reproduction has been permanently circumvented. However, this doesn’t stop us from fooling around anyway. Yay! Therefore, I’m childfree, and Alan Keyes would think I’m a monster, with an irrelevant marriage. Apparently, he would have people who are unable or unwilling to have…
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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…