TEC Announces Members of Task Force to Create Liturgies for Same-Sex Blessings
By Greg Griffith, Stand Firm
It's a source of frustration for me – and no doubt a source of joy for our Worthy Opponents – that no matter how brazen or successful or disruptive they are in advancing their agenda, there seems to be nothing that triggers any sort of pushback from the Beloved Moderates – on whom, like their counterparts in secular political elections, the ultimate outcome of changes such as these rest. But there we are: In about 20 years, the Episcopal Church has gone from a few rogue priests doing gay "marriages" disguised as home blessings, to a task force that in two short years will develop and present for approval by General Convention, liturgies for same-sex blessings.
Twenty-five years ago, if you had told them that the Episcopal Church would, in their lifetimes, allow rogue priests in faraway parishes to do same-sex blessings disguised as "home blessings," they would have scoffed at you. Yet it happened, and the practice grew.
Twenty years ago, if you had told these same Beloved Moderates that, the practice of disguising same-sex blessings as "home blessings" having grown by leaps and bounds, some priests in faraway parishes had taken to blessing same-sex unions in their churches, the reaction would have been more scoffing but, faced with the facts, a wave of the hand and some mumbling about "it could never happen in OUR diocese." Yet the number of diocese in which same-sex blessings were being allowed grew from zero, to now approaching two dozen.
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