Top Episcopal bishop sees less conflict over gay issues

By Kristen Moulton
The Salt Lake Tribune
Nov 11, 2010

The number of Episcopalians leaving the church over same-sex unions and gay clergy has dropped, according to the faith’s presiding bishop.

“There were very, very few in the past year,” the Rev. Katharine Jefferts Schori said during a visit to Salt Lake City last weekend for the consecration of Utah’s 11th Episcopal bishop, the Rev. Scott Hayashi.

In an interview, she expressed confidence that the Episcopal Church will grow by attracting those drawn by its “transcendent worship,” sense of social justice and diversity. the rest

“It takes a long time for people’s prejudices and people’s justifications for things we think are wrong to be overturned,” she said. “My hope is that eventually people will come to understand human sexuality in a broader context.”

But the Rev. Daryl Fenton, canon for provincial and global mission for the Anglican Church in North America, says that will happen only “if they, too, abandon scripture.”