Time has thus far proved that belief sadly misguided. The consequences of that one decision, as further ratified and confirmed by the bishops of the Church who went ahead with his consecration ceremony in November 2003, defying a collective warning from the Primates of the Anglican Communion, continue to ripple through the Anglican world. The bishop himself has become nothing more than a poster boy for the gay rights movement, and is still not recognized by the Archbishop of Canterbury as a fellow bishop in the Anglican Communion. On that score, and that score alone, the rash gesture by ECUSA failed to bring the rest of the Communion round to its point of view.
The gay rights movement continues to push forward within America in general, and within ECUSA in particular. In consequence of its decision in 2003, the Church has suffered declining membership, dissension and outright conflict within its ranks, as parishes by the hundreds, and now four entire dioceses, have voted their disapproval by leaving. The Church has added fuel to the flames by vigorously pursuing, under its no-compromise Presiding Bishop, a policy of suing those entities that depart for their bank accounts and property, in another misguided attempt to assert dominion over assets whose value to ECUSA consists for the most part the cash they could bring into its coffers to finance yet more litigation.
On this page are collected posts about many of the sad consequences resulting from that fateful step taken in August 2003. I wish, for the sake of the Church in which I grew up, that they did not have to be chronicled, but someone who is still an Episcopalian needs to keep track, so here they are.
The Consequences of General Convention 2003
A Self-Cleaning Ecclesiastical Oven
The Church of Enablers
Jesus' Warning to Those Perpetuating False Teaching
The Future Before Your Eyes
Boanergean Brouhaha over B033
A House Divided Against Itself
The 2009 Church Follies (III): Veni, sancte spiritus
A House Divided Against Itself
The 2009 Church Follies (III): Veni, sancte spiritus
A New Declaration of Independence (revised)
Episcopal Church Foments Strife and Civil War
The Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield, 1938-2013: Requiescat in pace
The Rt. Rev. John-David Schofield, 1938-2013: Requiescat in pace
What Episcopalians Have Lost
Bishops Bless Blasphemy; Curmudgeon's Cup Runneth Over
Ave Imperator, Te Morituri Salutamus
Nothing New under the Sun
Consolation on the Loss of Communion
On the Death of the Anglican Communion
Who Dares Call It by Name?
Bishops Bless Blasphemy; Curmudgeon's Cup Runneth Over
Ave Imperator, Te Morituri Salutamus
Nothing New under the Sun
Consolation on the Loss of Communion
On the Death of the Anglican Communion
Who Dares Call It by Name?
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