Quincy bishop will pray, seek input
Springfield bishop calls resolution 'same old stuff'
Thursday, September 27, 2007
By MICHAEL MILLER
of the Journal Star

Episcopal Diocese of Quincy officials won't know what they think of this week's Episcopal Church House of Bishops action until they have a chance to ponder it.

"I need to scrutinize it, literally pray over it and then sit down with my standing committee so I can have clergy and lay input," Bishop Keith Ackerman said Wednesday.

Bishop Peter Beckwith of the Episcopal Diocese of Springfield, though, said he was "disappointed" by the resolution and called it "the same old stuff."

The resolution passed by the bishops on Tuesday was in response to a request made by Anglican Communion archbishops from around the world to clarify Episcopal Church positions on blessings of same-sex unions and consecration of noncelibate homosexuals as bishops. the rest