The House of Bishops has issued "A Word to the Church" concerning the Windsor Report. There's an expression of "sincere regret for the pain, the hurt, and the damage caused to our Anglican bonds of affection by certain actions of our church," but also a comment that "in offering our regrets, do not intend to preempt the canonical authority of the General Convention of the Episcopal Church." The HOB deferred until its March meeting the questions of moratoria on consecrating actively-gay bishops and on the blessing of same-sex relationships.
A minority "Statement of Acceptance of and Submission to the Windsor Report 2004," signed by 21 bishops so far, is posted on Kendall Harmon's TitusOneNine blog. I regret to report that the bishop of my diocese (Texas) is one of the signatories.
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Well, I knew my bishop (+Stanton) would be signing along with his ACN buddies, but I find myself a bit disappointed in +Wimberly. I was under the impression that he wasn't in with the extremists. Looks like I may have been mistaken...
Looks like +Ohl of NW Texas was the only one in our state who, so far, hasn't toed that particular party line.
Posted by: Simeon | January 13, 2005 at 05:56 PM
Well, now +Wimberly looks like more of an enigma again. There was a commentor on titusonenine who was ranting that, even though +Wimberly signed the AAC bishop's document, he was about to ordain an "openly gay man" to the priesthood. (and yes, the post was fairly dripping with disdain and outrage ;)
So D.C., do you know what's up with your bishop ?
Posted by: Simeon | January 16, 2005 at 09:58 PM
Simeon, I've only met Don Wimberly once. Everything I know of him suggests he's a first-rate guy. A couple of good friends of mine know him and think very highly of him.
Posted by: D. C. | January 18, 2005 at 06:41 PM