In fact, it never began, because proponents of revision of the Church s classical teaching on sex and marriage begin with the assumption that this teaching is impossible to maintain in the present permissive society, indeed not only impossible but undesirable. We might note in passing that not one of the authors in this collection advocates a lifelong standard of sexual fidelity for either homosexuals or heterosexuals. Let me agree with Fr. Smith at one point. What we are seeing among today s liberationists is not really new at all, but a lightly baptized rehabilitation of an old spirituality.
Sexuality is good.
Sexuality is powerful. You are not alone. The problem today in the Episcopal Church is that the center is a moving target. Prof. Sedgwick concludes, however, that such conscientious conflicts can only be temporary. Conservatives will be allowed to hold their prejudices only so long as they cease to claim normative and permanent status for them.