Absolutely incredible.
+ Approved the Episcopal Church's membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice. The membership had caused some controversy during the last General Convention. In a related resolution (NAC-040), the council asked for a report at its March meeting regarding "membership of or on behalf of the Episcopal Church in external organizations." The National Concerns Committee is considering whether the church needs a more specific policy on membership in such organizations.
Read the whole thing here, i.e. at Episcopal News Service. Christ have mercy upon us.
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After this is there anything left salvaging in the ECUSA? Have they completely and utterly abandoned any reasonable claim to apostolicity and moral authority? What do you think of this WB? I know you see yourself as standing in the gap until such time as ECUSA completely disintegrates, but where does one draw the line? The Rome Report said that the good ship ECUSA continues to sink. but it seems to me already sunk and any hopes of "saving" it vanished. At what point does it all become futile?
I would have thought that from a mere political standpoint (i.e. an attempt to be savvy) that the Executive Committee would not have made this resolution just before Sanctity of Life Sunday. Sanctity of Life Sunday, while not recognized by all Episcopal or Anglican parishes, is certainly recognized annually each Sunday closest to January 22nd (i.e., next Sunday) by pro-life Episcopal and Anglican parishes, and by pro-life congregations in most mainline and conservative denominations:
Episcopal: www.noelforlife.org/resources/readarticle.asp?number=214&topic=&display=
Presbyterian: http://www.ppl.org/SOHLS_Home.html
Baptists: http://www.bfl.org/events.htm
Lutherans: http://www.lutheransforlife.org/Life%20Sunday/2006_Life_Sunday.htm
On this issue, the Episcopal Church's Executive Committee is following on the heels of the other mainlines' governing bodies. For instance the United Methodist Church and the Presbyterian Church (USA) have already joined the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice (http://www.rcrc.org). RCRC buttress their position by pointing out denominational statements in their favor, at http://www.rcrc.org/pdf/We_affirm.pdf (though this is done selectively). Most if not all the mainline protestant denominations have followed this cultural shift since Roe, allowing at least some room for a “pro-choice” position (if not adopting a rather strong one altogether). See www.spiritrestoration.org/Church/Denominational-stand-on-the-issue-of-abortion.htm.
Official dialogue over abortion in ECUSA (as I have experience it) is almost nil, though of course we hear of “remaining in dialogue”; Liberals on the Executive Committee slowly (quickly?) push ECUSA toward a pro-choice position on abortion while “conservatives” in NOEL and IRD (http://www.ird-renew.org/site/pp.asp?c=fvKVLfMVIsG&b=278604) join across protestant denominations for advocacy of a pro-life position.
Seppukid,
Depends on whether you are the zygote and who is your mom. That's the big issue. If your mom had made another choice, you wouldn't be able to pretend confusion. You'd be silent.
SK,
The development of reason is the only way to adequately determine when life begins.
P.S.
Seppuku Kid,
I think your point has merit in so far as some theological conservatives should have a rather more comprehnsive view of Christian Ethics. I would be interested to know, for example, how many Episcopal parishes that recognize Sanctity of Life Sunday on January 22 will also recognize Homelessness Sunday on January 29?
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