Where Are the Pro-LGBT Religious Voices in Mainstream Media?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

50. About 15 years ago, a friend attended the General Convention of the Episcopal Church

The question was ordination of GLBT persons. She noted that most of the "no" votes on the clergy side came from retired bishops and most of the "no" votes on the laity side came from older people.

The Episcopal Church has never been the province of Biblical literalists. From the beginning, the Church of England (its ancestor) was a compromise between Catholic and Protestant varieties of Christianity for the sake of national unity, and beginning in Elizabeth I's time, with few exceptions, there has generally been some latitude allowed in what you actually believe as long as you use the Book of Common Prayer in worship and recognize the church's authority structures.

Most of the parishes that are really bent out of shape about the changes leave the denomination.

My parish (which I recently found out held weddings for same-sex couples as early as 1991) is home to a lot of "refugees," either GLBT or friends and family of GLBT persons, from Roman Catholic and conservative evangelical churches.