Overwhelming Support for Overturning B033

Midway through a July 9 open hearing on sexuality resolutions, the balance was so lopsided in favor of scrapping Resolution B033 that the moderator asked supporters of B033 to identify themselves and speak. General Convention’s Committee on World Mission presented the hearing as concerning future consecrations of bishops and The Episcopal Church’s relation to the broader Anglican Communion. The hearing invited comments on 13 resolutions. Most of the resolutions would openly repudiate the season of restraint described by B033, or otherwise render it irrelevant ...

[Joe DeCaro]

"The Rev. Sharon Lewis, a deputy of the Diocese of Southwest Florida, said the committee should take a lesson from the afternoon session, when deputies spoke with each other one-on-one.'We stopped for a moment from legislating each other’s hearts and we spoke to each other.'

She asked the committee not to discard B033, saying The Episcopal Church needs time to heal, and that birds need both a left wing and a right wing to fly.'Broken wings take time to mend,' she said ..."