Dio. Virginia Blesses Same Sex Unions

What I feared a few months ago is now becoming a reality it seems, as those on the conservative side leave TEC, those on the left are passing their agenda ... Virginia, a longtime southern middle of the road Episcopal Diocese ...now passes a resolution blessing same gendered relationships...

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Resolved, that accordingly the 214th Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia affirms and recognizes the inherent blessedness and holiness of all committed covenanted relationships between two adult persons, regardless of whether those relationships are between a man and a woman, a man and a man or a woman and a woman, when those relationships are (as described in Resolution D-39 of the 79th General Convention of the Episcopal Church) “characterized by fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection and respect, careful, honest communication, and the holy love which enables those in such relationships to see in each other the image of God.”

Resolved, that it is the mind of the 214th Annual Council of the Diocese of Virginia that in the Diocese of Virginia no person should be precluded from being ordained to ministry or from being selected to serve in ordained ministry in any parish or other capacity on the grounds that such person is openly living in a committed covenanted relationship with another person of the same gender, so long as the relationship is "characterized by fidelity, monogamy, mutual affection and respect, careful, honest communication, and the holy love which enables those in such relationships to see in each other the image of God" (as described in Resolution D-39 of the 79th General Convention of The Episcopal Church).

this blogger thinks that GENCON 09 in Anaheim will be a dooooooozy of a convention.