Donna
Danna (17 June 2006)
"Spiritually Blind Gay Group's
Prayers At Episcopal Convention"
Excerpt below taken from an article called 8,000
Lost Members Last Year..200 Churches Disassociated From ECUSA at http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=4263
"THE gay Episcopal group Integrity sponsored a "Eucharist"
here Friday night attended by, among others, two candidates for Presiding
Bishop: Stacy Sauls of Lexington and Edward "Ted" Gulick of Kentucky. So
let me favor you with a couple of choice quotes from the service. "We give
thanks for all the blessings of this life, [silence] especially for the
lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered persons you have called to witness
openly to the fullness of their creation in your image. We give thanks
for those who have found grace to live together in loving and faithful
partnership, awaiting in hope the day when their unions will be recognized
on earth as they are before you." Or this. "We pray for those who have
died, [silence] especially for the victims of AIDS throughout the world,
and for the victims of hate crimes through the ages. May we all become
ever more joyful as we await the blessedness they already share!"