US Episcopalian Church question

psychic_serpent psychic_serpent at yahoo.com
Tue Aug 5 16:36:46 UTC 2003


--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Kathryn Cawte" 
<kcawte at b...> wrote:
> The BBC have been covering the delayed confirmation of the gay 
> bishop by the Episcopal church all day. About an hour ago they 
> explained that it's membership is actually less than 1% of the 
> population of the US and as such it legally qualifies as a sect. 
> And yet ABC news which is being shown now just described it as one 
> of the US's biggest churches. Now I realise that these two things 
> aren't necessarilly contradictory but they certainly sound like 
> someone is wrong. Can someone explain whether they're both right?

Shaun already explained this in terms of numbers, but more to the 
point, even if the Episcopal Church had a membership one-twentieth 
of its current level, it would still warrant this kind of attention 
by the powers that be because the heads of most of the large 
coroporations in the US, as well as most politicians in the US 
(especially the US Congress) are on the books as members of either 
the Episcopal Church, PCUSA (Presbyterian Church USA) or ELCA 
(Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)--and all of these 
denominations are currently wrestling with issues of sexual 
orientation.  This has a lot more to do with who is in power in this 
country than mere membership numbers.

--Barb

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