FROM AAC WEEKLY

Inadequate Resolution on Windsor Report Passes on
Final Convention Day

B033: "On Election of Bishops" (Concurred)Proposer:
The Rt. Rev. Dorsey F. Henderson, Jr. (Upper
SC)Resolved , the House of Deputies concurring, That
the 75th General Convention receive and embrace The
Windsor Report’s invitation to engage in a process of
healing and reconciliation; and be it furtherResolved,
that this Convention therefore call upon Standing
Committees and bishops with jurisdiction to exercise
restraint by not consenting to the consecration of any
candidate to the episcopate whose manner of life
presents a challenge to the wider church and will lead
to further strains on communion.

ENS report summary:
Resolution B033 comes in response to the Windsor
Report's suggestion that the Episcopal Church "effect
a moratorium on the consecration of any candidate to
the episcopate who is living in a same-gender union
until some new consensus in the Anglican Communion
emerges" (Windsor Report, paragraph 134). 

Resolution B033 was brought to the Convention at
mid-morning of June 21, the final legislative day,
during an extraordinary joint session of the Houses of
Bishops and Deputies. Presiding Bishop Frank Griswold
relayed the text of the resolution that was proposed
by Bishop Dorsey F.Henderson of Upper South Carolina,
the bishop chair of the Special Legislative Committee
on the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Communion.
Reactions . . ."...I can only support it if we
understand that it's not slamming the door. It has to
leave the door open for further conversation and
consideration in the very near future."-Presiding
Bishop-elect Katharine Jefferts Schori regarding
B033"I will defy the resolution by consenting after
prayer and careful consideration to any person duly
elected by a diocese in this church."-Bishop Chane of
the Diocese of Washington (DC) "I don't think there's
the willingness to actually enforce it and carry it
out ... The best prediction of what a person will do
is what they have done before, and a number of the
very revisionist bishops have very honestly said,
‘We've been doing same-sex blessings, we've been
ordaining homosexual persons and we're going to keep
right on doing that'..."-Canon David Anderson, AAC
President