Avoiding a schism: One Episcopal bishop's hope

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Avoiding+a+schism%3a+One+Episcopal+bishop%27s+hope&articleId=40134cb0-7ddc-4209-91c3-db61b14ff3e7

[Union Leader] 3 Mar 2007--Who is pushing whom?

That is the question the worldwide Anglican Communion finds itself asking regarding homosexuality and the church.

As New York Times religion correspondent Laurie Goodstein framed the issue on National Public Radio on Tuesday, it is the "conservatives" pushing everyone else to adopt their own "orthodoxy" that is threatening to split the communion. God forbid the church be orthodox.

Presiding Episcopal Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori made a similar assertion on Wednesday.
"We are being pushed toward a decision by impatient forces within and outside this church who hunger for clarity. That hunger for clarity at all costs is an anxious response to discomfort in the face of change."

Interesting that it's never the ones seeking to suddenly change centuries-old traditions who are doing the pushing.