The outgoing Presiding Bishop, Edmond Browning, delivered a parting speech that gave particular attention, in a litany of fashionable causes, to gay liberation. The new Presiding Bishop, Frank T. Griswold III, was hailed as a moderate solely because he seems unwilling to destroy the denomination tomorrow in order to ensure the blessing of same-sex unions. The sheer dominance of the homosexual issue at the Convention forced me think through some fragmented ideas I have had for a long while. We are the crowd which, even if we do not read the New Yorker , know people who do. We are the people who, even if we did not go to an Ivy League university, would be thrilled if our children do.
College students enjoy a very safe environment for sexual exploration.
Unwanted pregnancies are either avoided through intelligent use of birth control or terminated with abortions. Men tend not to be violent toward women or shamelessly exploitive. Because of this prevailing experience, advocates of further liberation are not threatening. The typical Episcopalian is not very likely to be enthusiastic about the homosexual agenda. Some urban parishes have made gay liberation part of their social justice platform, but this is really rather rare.