Episcopal Head Urges Church to Enter 'Real' Conversation

http://www.christianpost.com/article/20070621/28088_Episcopal_Head_Urges_Church_to_Enter_'Real'_Conversation.htm

[The Christian Post] 22 June 2007--Disputing the issue over homosexuality has not been productive for the church, said the head of The Episcopal Church. But being open to conversation is vital, she added.

Episcopal Presiding Bishop Katharine Jefferts Schori wrapped up a three-day, 15-town marathon tour of western Kansas Wednesday. While The Episcopal Church faces a growing exodus of parishes that believe the U.S. Anglican arm has departed from Christian orthodoxy, Episcopalians numbering from 10 to 220 at churches in the Diocese of Western Kansas welcomed Jefferts Schori, who they say has not sugar-coated difficult subjects.

"It is what is," said Jefferts Schori, responding to a question about gay bishop V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire whose consecration in 2003 widened divisions in The Episcopal Church and the global Anglican Communion.

"Really, we have always had gay bishops, clergy and members of congregations," she said, according to The Hutchinson News. Robinson, however, was the first elected bishop living openly with a same-sex partner.

What Katie invariably fails to say is that the church did not sanction their homosexuality.