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...took action. In a conciliatory but strongly worded resolution (passed 129-9, with 8 abstaining), it expressed "understanding" of the rebellious bishops' feelings but said that "they are wrong; we decry their [action]." The resolution also challenged the validity of the ordinations. "A bishop's authority to ordain can be effectively exercised only in and for a community which has authorized him to act for them, and as a member of the Episcopal college," the bishops declared. That wording apparently was strong enough for Robinson and his colleagues, who withdrew their charges, but accusations could still be filed...
Women still cannot legally become priests in the U.S. Episcopal Church.* Like other churches that do not ordain women-Roman Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Missouri Synod Lutheran-the Episcopal Church has refused to do so basically because Jesus and all of his apostles were men. Most other U.S. Protestant bodies reject that reasoning and ordain women...
...innovation. The House of Bishops elected the Right Rev. John M. Allin, 52, of Mississippi-the most conservative of five candidates-as their new Presiding Bishop, the church's chief executive. Moreover, the lower clergy and laity who constitute the House of Deputies unexpectedly defeated a proposal to ordain women as priests...
...hours after confirming Allin for a twelve-year term, the House of Deputies took up the proposal to ordain women-a move that Hines had vigorously endorsed in his opening sermon (Allin was opposed). Although a majority of deputies apparently favored the innovation, the complicated system of bloc voting by dioceses resulted in the measure's defeat. The Episcopal Women's Caucus reacted bitterly. "We have been turned down not by God," they said, "but by the Episcopal Church...
Editor Bryant, in an article, "The Church and the Homosexual," proposes that the church ordain gay ministers and bless "permanent and faithful" gay unions. But the article likely to cause the most furor is one by Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, authors of Lesbian/ Woman. Among other controversial points, they raise an outlandish suggestion: that because lesbians have removed themselves from the "battle of the sexes," they are "the only women capable of loving...