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1987 the Witness, Vol. 70, No. 11 publication. and reuse for required Permission DFMS. / Church Episcopal the of Archives 2020. Copyright Arab-Israeli conflict: "Moon Red as Blood" JAMES LEWIS Racism in Paradise • SHELLEY WONG S. African Students Fight Apartheid JOHN STUBBS Letters tial this created. But after the closing Report disappoints Sexuality needs forum Eucharist I was disappointed. As a participant in the Public Policy Susan E. Pierce, in her commentary on While a great deal of information- Network's Under One Roof Conference Under one Roof, said several things that sharing took place, in the end, in spite in St. Louis, I am puzzled and disap- needed to be said, not the least of which of the gathering of many, no united pro- pointed with Susan Pierce's report in was decrying the paucity of discussion phetic vision emerged, no social justice the July/August WITNESS. of justice issues with respect to lesbians strategies for the church-at-large. and gay men and sexuality in general. Puzzled, because her introduction I admire Susan Pierce's eloquent The failure to include these issues on chooses to understand the Public Policy analysis and reportorial skill in cutting the agenda caused several Integrity Network in all its cooperative diversity through the morass to get to the painful members to stay away from St. Louis, publication. as simply "the institutional church," point whereas her conclusion faults it for not but we nevertheless had the largest and delegation of all the sponsoring net- The liturgy, of course, was magnifi- from the start planning to produce cent but we Episcopalians are known forceful General Convention resolutions works. Our numbers and forthrightness, reuse for doing that well. I agree with Byron to transform the church. Her words in moreover, made lesbian and gay con- for cerns a focus of many Connector Group Rushing — the feast of Pentecost pre- between seem to admit that this last was sented a unique opportunity for the Pre- never the intention. meetings and introduced the topic in many workshops, including the one on siding Bishop to talk about a new required Disappointed, because Pierce, hoping non-traditional families which had ini- church and a new Pentecost, but we just like many of us for some bold policy settled for "business as usual." statement from the Presiding Bishop, tially ignored us. Integrity also spon- sored an additional workshop on bless- The Rev. Floyd Naters-Gamarra did not apparently recognize that the Philadelphia, Pa. Permission bottom line for the moment was likely ings of lesbian/gay marriages, which to be given us by George McGonigle, was filled beyond capacity. his senior administrator. In one work- 'Roof lost Constitution DFMS. The failure to include lesbian and gay / shop hour between flights out and back concerns in the program was Integrity's Re the Under One Roof Conference (July/ from New York, McGonigle admittedly responsibility. I know that most of the August WITNESS): I am disturbed by one factor—the theme of the plenary ses- Church attempted nothing bold or incisive, but organizers of the conference are suppor- his summary of progress to date was tive of Integrity's goals, but our con- sions, "Politics, Religion and the wholly workmanlike and specified the cerns are not foremost in their minds. Constitution," seemed inadequately car- PB's five resultant priorities, in formu- Just as in 1985 when the first draft of ried throughout Episcopal lations I found relevant then and worth The Consultation's position statement Ms. Pamela Chinnis, one of the panel- the pondering since. for General Convention completely ig- ists, explained to me that the original of As Susan Pierce says, the idea was to nored heterosexism, Integrity has to intent had not been to include the bring together all the various service continually remind our friends that les- Constitution, that it had been included in deference to Sen. Lowell Weicker who Archives and justice ministries working for social bians and gay men must be fully part of change. Many of us believed the pur- the agenda for justice in the Episcopal gave the keynote address. However, I was 2020. pose was a modest one of strengthening Church. disturbed that Weicker's speech seemed a the "community of Episcopalians who Edgar K. Byham pep rally for a Constitution I feel to be can support each other in working to New York, N.Y. fundamentally flawed. I suspect that I may have been the only person at the Copyright transform the church." This took con- crete reality at innumerable moments as 'Business as usual' conference who attended especially to each of us shared special experiences Thanks to THE WITNESS for pointing discuss the Constitution. and learned from another's. From this out the non-effect, ultimately, of the During the second plenary session the standpoint, the conference seemed to Under One Roof meeting in St. Louis. panelists talked about how our country is me and others a solid success. When I first arrived I was proud of divided along racial lines and between the Paul L. Ward the large numbers that had gathered for sexes, and they noted how the basis of Alexandria, Va. the event, and excited about the poten- such division seems to be fear. They went THE WITNESS on to talk of the need to confront such have wide reading; Michael Hamilton's term selfish gain that may be accrued. fears. "An Irish sickness" is deeply moving We are destroying our planet at a rate The Under One Roof Conference was and helpful; and William Spofford's so alarming that scientists predict we —at least in part—an attempt to confront "Remembering 'the Old Man'" brings may suffer the greatest mass extinction our fears of each other and heal the divi- back so many memories which are pre- in the history of the earth. Tropical rain sions within our denomination. However, cious to us of people we knew and cher- forests are being cut down at the rate of our nation as a whole seems to be running ished through THE WITNESS and later 35 to 50 acres per hour. Species of ani- from each other at an increasing pace. "in the flesh." mal, insect and plant life are being ex- During the discussion period following It was Hans Beaver, sexton in our terminated at an estimated rate of one I spoke of the need for a constitutional first parish at St. John's, Portage, Wise, per hour. Soil erosion turns arable soil publication. amendment dividing the power in our in 1925, who out of love and apprecia- into desert; pollution of our lakes, riv- and country along racial and sexual lines and tion circulated THE WITNESS on foot ers, and oceans by toxic chemicals kills in proportion to population. Needless to each week and so built up the social the life therein at unprecedented rates; reuse say the response was underwhelming. awareness of the congregation. Our acid rain is destroying forests in Europe for I was amused when the third session congratulations and thanks to you and and America. ended — without discussing the role of to the above. It all adds up to the same grim fact: the Constitution — with one panel mem- Elizabeth and Daniel Corrigan We who have been given "dominion" required ber asking if anyone knew of some struc- Santa Barbara, Cal. over the earth act as though we were tural change which might help in the mindless, vicious destroyers of life squabble for funds by the various groups. rather than as its faithful, loving stew- Had similar experiences ards. Some people who ravage, pillage Permission The panel moderator opened the dis- cussion period by announcing, "No state- I promptly read the July/August issue and destroy think the harm wrought ments; just questions!" Then she man- with special interest in Marianne won't be realized until far into the fu- DFMS. Micks' "Forty years in the wilderness" / aged to turn herself in such a way as not to ture, and they "won't be around to see it notice my hand. I really don't blame her because Bishop Stephen Bayne often when it happens." How foolish! It is much: Nobody actually wanted to talk referred to her writings and saw that I happening right now. Church about the Constitution anyway. had copies. I had earlier ordered her Bishop Spong's article is a delight to I would expect that Mr. Weicker might book, "The Joy of Worship," and look see in THE WITNESS, because we read have a pep rally mentality when it comes forward to reading it. I well understand and hear so little from the church about Episcopal to the Constitution. After all he is a white her feelings expressed in the article, for our relationship to all life, our need to I have had many similar ones! the male, and I suspect, wealthy. The love all life, to realize that God created of Constitution is designed to serve exactly Congratulations on the awards THE all things and found them all good. such folk! WITNESS has received — a great trib- Richard A. Boggs In effect, what the planning committee ute to your imagination and determina- Los Angeles, Cal. Archives for the plenary sessions had done was to tion as well as your sense of mission. construct a "half debate" — it provided Dr. Ruth Jenkins 2020. for the pro but not the con of the La Jolla, Cal. Correction Constitution. A typographical transposition appeared in John Kavanaugh Focus on battered earth the article, "Constitutional wrongs" by Copyright Detroit, Mich. Charles V. Willie in the September issue on No words can express my deep grati- p.
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