Dean Thomas Luck Offers his Thoughts
The Very Rev. Tom Luck is Dean and Rector,
St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral,
Syracuse, New York

From titusonenine
(Shared with permission–KSH)
“I write as one who has long thought Gene Robinson should be a bishop and as one who attended his ordination and consecration with great joy.

As I have been thinking and praying over the past months I have reluctantly come to at ask some questions that are very difficult. We rightly pride ourselves on the deliberative processes at every level of the Episcopal Church that involves bishops, clergy, and laity. At any given time, there is always a majority and a minority point of view. This can be true among Vestries, Parish Meetings, Diocesan Conventions, and General Convention. I also believe in consensus, which does not mean that everyone agrees, but that everyone agrees to live with the decision and to remain in loving fellowship (koinonia) with each other. After the Lambeth Conference, the Windsor Report, the Primates meeting and the Anglican ConsultativeCouncil, it is more than obvious that three things are true: 1) This issue is not the same as the ordination of women. In that case the Lambeth Conference did declare that there were no theological barriers to ordaining women prior to women being ordained in the Episcopal Church. 2)The Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada are in the distinct minority on the issues of both ordaining people in same-sex relationships and blessing relationships of people who are of the same sex. 3) The perspective of the vast consensus of the Anglican Communion is that if the Episcopal Church USA and the Anglican Church of Canada to continue on their present courses we will be removing ourselves from the Anglican Communion.

The rest: http://titusonenine.classicalanglican.net/index.php?p=7902