Anglicans, Episcopalians, CISAFIM and stuff

[Gordon Ramsay]

Hi everyone Sorry to get back on to this topic for a minute, but I was wondering about a couple of things that have come up in the last few days in the Anglican communion.  I was wondering if anyone could help out with some info.   Firstly, I have been a bit surprised that all of the angst has come out over the consecration of a USA bishop.   My surprise is that it is about "bishops".   And if a gay person is being consecrated as a bishop, they're already a priest.   I would have thought that the problem would have been just as significant with a gay person being a priest as with being a bishop.  If any major falling out was to take place, shouldn't it have happened earlier over gay priests, rather than waiting till one got to be a bishop? Any ideas on this one?   Secondly, in the interview on Lateline the other night, Peter Jensen (who I thought did pretty well) also talked about the difficulty he had with the proposed consecration of a celibate gay man as a bishop earlier this year (which did not proceed).  I thought his argument had pretty good internal validity - but it revolved around the fact that the man "had not repented" of an earlier gay relationship.   Therefore adherence and commitment to Celibacy in Singleness and Faithfulness in Marriage (CISAFIM) was not a good enough sexual ethic.   It was the first time that I think I had heard CISAFIM being described as insufficient from someone in the quite conservative part of the argument.     Regards Gordon Ramsay