the inevitable can still hurt.
2005-02-25 : 11:30 a.m.

Well, we�ve finally come to it.

Disappointingly, if not surprisingly, the Presiding Bishop continues to trot out the same exhausted rhetoric of liberal religion: �bonds of affection�, �unity in diversity�, etc. I wonder what he really thinks will happen. Do the PB and other senior leaders in the Episcopal Church think that as bad as things are, this will all eventually blow over (as the flap over the ordination of women did)? Or are they so deeply convinced of the rightness of their actions that they simply regard the breaking of our Communion as a reasonable price to pay? My question isn�t a facetious one; I sincerely wonder what outcome they hope for or even imagine possible.

And finally, I am simply exhausted over this debate. To my mind, it�s not really even a significant �gay issue�. It�s an issue for gay Episcopalians who want to a) get married in their church, and/or b) receive ordination to the episcopate. And I would suggest that the number of people who fall into one or both of those categories is hilariously small. Is this worth the exhaustion of our congregations, the destruction of our mission and fellowship, the poisoning of our mutual regard, and the distraction of our leadership? If you ask me, it�s not. I just don�t think it�s worth all of this.

This feels dishearteningly familiar. Every institution or tradition I have become a part of, I have found to be teetering on the verge of chaos at the hands of the same tired cabal of baby-boomers with their endless appetite for permanent and total revolution at any price. Earth to Old Hippies: not every cause is equivalent. Some issues are not best thought through with �rights talk�. Not every exclusion constitutes real oppression.

And some things are simply too precious to be trampled in your Long March toward The Future (c) 1969. Some things are needful, and worthy of our care, imperfect though they may be.

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