Live Blogging II
Here are the options that were discussed (as copied from the handout presented this meeting):
1) No Change: Continue as we are responding to challenges presented by The Episcopal Church, The Anglican Communion and/or some of its constituent parts.
2) Submit to The Episcopal Church: Acede to the demands of The Episcopal Church.
3) Resist: Find new ways of resisting the demands and direction of The Episcopal Church. During the discussion, this option morphed into leaving The Episcopal Church.
4) Dissolve the Diocese: Follow procedures delineated in the settlement of Calvary lawsuit for individual parishes to leave The Episcopal Church and this diocese. When those parishes have left, Diocesan staff would resign.
Numbers (1), (2), and (4) were rejected, and (3) was selected as a basis for further discussion. Despite this, we are being told now by Canon Mary Hayes that “none of these have been rejected,” although there seems to be some debate about this. We are now opening the floor for discussion, and talking about what this meeting hopes to accomplish.
