A.S. Haley: The Silence Has Been Deafening, or, Shine, Perishing Communion (III)

Sunday, May 9, 2010

We are now less than six days from ECUSA's "consecration" of a partnered lesbian to the (ECUSAn, at any rate) episcopacy. As I wrote in this earlier post, in so consecrating Canon Mary Glasspool, ECUSA will shoot itself in the foot. Even so, the silence from Lambeth Palace over the past weeks has been deafening.

Contrast to the present scenario the weeks following the confirmation of the election of V. Gene Robinson as bishop by both Houses at General Convention 2003. It was a very different ++Cantuar who summoned an emergency meeting of the Primates at Lambeth Palace three weeks before the date of the proposed consecration of a partnered gay man as bishop in the Episcopal Church (USA). The Primates, including ECUSA's own Presiding Bishop Frank T. Griswold III, assembled on short notice, and had no difficulty whatsoever in issuing the following communiqué, signed by everyone present -- including Bishop Griswold: the rest