BruSays, I don’t understand it either; seems like gay republicans would be so much happier in northern Minnosota—the opportunities in flannel are limitless! If only lesbians allowed gay men to live there…

I am an atheist so no authority, but this type of church, albeit humanist, appears to be facing extinction. Seems the religious either form pagan circles or rock-and-roll circus affairs. These Episcopalians are rather nice—they illegally buried our dead in SF within a beautiful rose garden. Now we know why the roses bloomed so well throughout those death-filled years.

Er, Jason, we already have those things: rituals, daddys, and way better outfits…which makes it even more puzzling to me. In my view, being a “Gay Christian” is right up there with being a “Log Cabin Republican” or an “Army Chaplain.” Oxy-morons all.

Que sera, sera!

Yes, the resolution to lift the ban on consecrating gay persons passed in a landslide.

I’m just an agnostic freethinker in the Peanut Gallery, but it does seem that a schism is inevitable.

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams, surely can’t hope to resolve the issue by preaching from the fence, especially since he chooses to politely plead with gay and gay-tolerant congregants and clergy to “voluntarily” refrain from rocking the boat by pressing the issue.

Williams’ decision to exclude Bishop Robinson from attending the 2008 Lambeth conference was a wretched excess of diplomacy—an ill-considered attempt to reduce the boiling by deferring to the reactionaries in the name of keeping the peace.

Fortunately, such sniveling and hand-wringing is proving insufficient to quash the forces of enlightenment.

They follow the Catholics, just more open.

Yay!  Now gay people can participate in empty ritual, believe in the imaginary sky daddy, and wear strange outfits too!