tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187573090343842338.post7917142657383882970..comments2020-03-19T08:55:22.077-04:00Comments on A Word from the Rector: Archbishop DuncanNoelle York-Simmonshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12735603975530615886noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7187573090343842338.post-13241874986955727652008-11-20T07:10:00.000-05:002008-11-20T07:10:00.000-05:00I've had two comments from colleagues. The first b...I've had two comments from colleagues. The first basically suggests that we are a long way from people being willing to forgo being Anglican. I think that is probably right but the price of it will wind up being at the expense of our support for GLBT people. It will happen slowly. Some recognition from primates of the new province, silence from Canterbury, some kind of covenant which TEC will reject, some mechanism for some diocese and possibly parishes to 'sign on independently', possibly through joining the new province and voila (or viola as a a friend says)people can remain Anglican as long as they renounce any affirmation fo gays. We may not like ti but as long as Canterbury stays silent on this and keeps investing in the covenant what is going to change the picture I am painting?<BR/><BR/>The second comment was that it will be sad if we become like baptists and we have to ask what kind of Anglican a particular church might be. I think that is pretty well under way and explicictly so in Pittsburgh and elsewhere. I agree that it is sad and have a real sense of loss about it, but don't wan to sit by idly as though nothing is going on. Other suggestions welcome.<BR/><BR/>GeoffreyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com