General Convention 2006: "Stepping Back" Toward Revisionist Victory?
Source: The Christian Challenge (Washington DC)
Report/Analysis By The Editor
May 2006

THE FUTURE of the U.S. Episcopal Church (ECUSA) and its standing within the Anglican Communion now appears set to be determined chiefly by the June General Convention's decisions on compliant-sounding resolutions that, as presently written, would nonetheless leave ECUSA "pointing in the same direction."

This, after the Diocese of California averted a second major convention struggle--and probable schism in the Communion--by passing up the chance to elect another actively gay bishop on May 6.

The election of a second such prelate would have presented an opportunity for considerable drama: Some claimed--and some did not believe--that the House of Bishops would this time narrowly refuse to back a non-celibate homosexual, and if so, that gay activists and their supporters would gather willing bishops to consecrate the candidate illegally.

the rest at the AAC blog