Oxymorons with Bishop Greg

from Stand Firm by Jackie

From the bishop of Olympia’s blog where he calls this a Conservative Proposal:

It is expected that our Washington state legislators will very soon, perhaps even tomorrow begin floor deliberations on HB2516 & SB6239 with the Senate to begin.  Passage of these bills or a version of them would make same sex marriage law in our state.  Our Episcopal Church, after a long discussion about this over the years is poised to do roughly the same this summer at our General Convention.

Can’t say he didn’t warn them.

While I am careful about wading into our legislator’s business, I would say this is the church’s business too.  I have been asked by many about my feelings on it, and I have decided to share them.  The ideas are not new,  I have shared them openly in the walk-abouts before becoming your bishop and in many venues before and since.

Of course, we all know these positions always flood the diocese with new members.

As a reminder, Bishop Warner was the predecessor to Bishop Rickel.  Observant readers will recall it was Bishop Warner who thought having a Muslim-Episcopal priest was a swell idea.  Wonder if any of those less than 10,000 episcopalians left in Olympia are truly conservative?