The downside of a decision made by a majority of my sisters and brothers in Christ today at the 2006 Episcopal General Convention will possibly be huge. The upside, in secular, practical terms, will be modest (though the spiritual consequences are vast). Yet faced with an easy, compromising path, one that nevertheless denied Christ, they chose to do the right thing, the only thing that true Christian men and women could do. My faith communion chose to affirm the acceptance of all the brothers and sisters the Creator has chosen to put on this planet, not just those who happen to constitute the popular majority.

Today the House of Bishops and the House of Deputies rejected the Anglican Communion's call, embodied in the Windsor Report, to ban electing gay and lesbian bishops and the blessing of same sex unions.

This risks tearing the very fabric of the Anglican Communion: it will certainly expose us to the pointed wrath and outrage of the so-called 'church conservatives' and much worse. It gains the gratitude of a scant 7% of the population who are now affirmed by their Episcopal brothers and sisters at a time when the chips are down: but, oh my Lord, this was the right thing to do. How can you claim to follow Christ yet deny another human being because they are 'different'?
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